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Many of the resulting forms remain current as nicknames (or indeed as names in their own right), others are preserved only in patronymics, and still others have vanished entirely.
Many family names are patronymics, so called because they are based on the first name of some long-ago father.
For example, over 285 names appear under George . Moreover, within each entry the names are broken down according to form and structure--for example, variants, cognates, diminutives, augmentatives, patronymics, and patronymics from diminutives-- with further classification (according to language) and comment.
But Gib, Phip , and Wat survive in patronymics: Gibson, Gibbons, Gibbs; Phipps; Watson, Watkins, Watts .
¹The first anthology was entitled Pubs, Place-Names and Patronymics: Selected Papers of the Names Institute, edited by E. Wallace McMullen (FDU, 1980. Covers 1962-1979.) and is still in print.