Nicknames (apodos)
Is there a Christian name for a female who is called : yoyo or choni, chani
3 Answers
Welcome to the forum, my 
Choni is short for Asunción in Spanish.
Chani = Sebastián
yoyo = no idea, sorry
There's two yoyo with a nickname in Spanish.
This is a snippet from Wikipedia.
Pompeyo Antonio Davalillo Romero (June 30, 1931 – February 28, 2013) was a Venezuelan professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for the Washington Senators. Nicknamed "Yo-Yo" by his teammates, he was listed at 5' 3", 140 lb. Davalillo batted and threw right-handed.
Here are excerpts from How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. It is a 1991 novel written by Julia Alvarez. The novel's main themes are acculturation and coming of age. The novel revolves around the Garcia family and their struggles of moving to New York City.
The Garcia Girls are assigned a wide variety of nicknames throughout the book. What are the sources of these nicknames and how do they affect the characters that bear them? In particular, how does Yolanda react to some of the names that are given to her?
Throughout the novel, nicknames are used to show a sense of intimacy. For example, when the girls call their mother "Mami." "Mami is so fresh," (pg 62)
'"That's her nickname, Yo, Yoyo," the mother explained. "She complains she wants her name, but you have to take shortcuts when there is four of them."' (pg 47)
"...Yolanda had already filled him in on her family and her bastardized name - Yo, Joe, Yoyo." (pg 47)
"Yolanda, nicknamed Yo in Spanish, misunderstood Joe in English, doubled and pronounced like the toy, Yoyo—or when forced to select from a rack of personalized key chains, Joey" (pg 68)
'"Ay Yolanda." Her mother pronounced her name in Spanish, her pure, mouth-filling, full-blooded name, Yolanda. But then, it was inevitable, like gravity, like night and day, bastardized, breaking into a half dozen nicknames- 'pobrecita Yosita"' (pg 81)
Yoyo might be Yolanda.
