The real names of your favourite singers

When looking up ancestral records, it’s useful to know that in order to save space on historic documents, common forenames were often shortened, such as Geo for George, Jos for Joseph, My for Mary, Thos for Thomas or Hy for Henry.
Harry is an abbreviation of both Henry and Harold. Hank is also short for Henry, maybe because Henry in Dutch is Hendrick, aka Henk, so just a vowel change to Hank. Chuck is short for Charles, Jack is short for John and Jim for James. Sarah became Sally and Dorothy became Dolly. Nellie and Nell are short for Eleanor, Helen or Ellen. For Elizabeth, there’s Lizzie, Liz, Liza, Beth Libby and Lillibet.