Would you name a baby a name..

[Arimeh]

...that you can't stand a shortened version of?

I know everyone likes to give people nicknames, but if you dislike the name that would be the natural nickname of a long name that you (or in this case - DH) love - would you still go with it, or just find another name?

Hope that makes sense....

[Artechim]

I would. You can steer people towards a different nick name or use the full name. My DS is William. A couple of people have tried calling him Willy. Didn't catch on lol

[Arimeh]

LOL I wonder why...

My mum tries to call DS Ari, which I don't like and I correct her when she does it - mostly its in text messages now. She called DD2 Edie when she was first born, and I told her to never call her that because I hate it (and really, Eden is a short enough name!) and she's never done it again....

[MrsFabuloso]

If you don't mind telling people, no his name isn't (for example) Fred, it is Fredrick...then do it. If you don't want to be saying that forever, then don't!

[raffy]

My cousins name is Samantha and my aunty insisted that is what every one was to call her which worked out fine until she became an adult and now everyone calls her Sam, except my aunty lol.

DS2 is Daylen and I liked 'Daylee' for short. Everyone calls him 'Day day' *shudder*

[Catherine]

I have always been Catherine. I had to correct a teacher once, in year 7, who was calling me Cathy. I was ignoring him, at first because I did not register it was me, and then to make a point. He eventually added my surname to Cathy. I replied "my name is Catherine." He apologised.

My SIL asked permission to call my daughter Ellie - but she never has, it does not suit her.

We considered Madeleine for her, but the thought of her being called maddy made me cringe (and it was a very popular name)

I know people who have used the short version (Sam, Wil, Ben) and had to correct people who try to lengthen it.

[Liviam]

DS is Wi!!iam and I absolutely hate Billy & Willy wtih a passion. So if anyone calls him either of those names I politely ask them not to and say we call him Wi!!iam or Will.

[Rosey]

I would and I wouldn't have any hesitations telling people to use their full name.

[~TT40~]

I dont like the default nick name for Spock. but there are other ways to shorten it, and think it is really her choice anyway...
so I did it.

[Teeki]

I'd do it anyway. DD is A.nnabelle, and we call her B.elley or B.elbo - I don't even know why! DD has now started calling herself B.elbo, it's probably the easiest for a two year old to say. Anyone who is close to us, including daycare, will call her either of those three names.

MIL used to try calling her Anna, Annie, Belle and Bella. We just told her that's not her name and in the end she gave up - no one else used those names so why should she!

If in future DD decides to go by one of those names or something different, that's fine. It's up to her, and because it's her I won't mind what her name is. I think it's easy enough to get over dislike of a name when it's your own child requesting it.

[Lisa]

Yep, I hated the nickname Jim for my DS1. Skip forward a few years and I began calling him Jim. Now he's older he only gets called by his full name and tells people he prefers that.

[Rowellen]

Depends on the name. But I did. We don't like Emmi. We quite often have to correct people when they call DD that.

[Mum2twoBoys]

I'm like liviam. I always use full name, prefer it, but don't mind will or Liam. But hate other ones like willy or bill, eurgh.

[Jewel]

No. I didn't use a name for DS2 because I didn't want/like it shortened. It was used as his middle name instead.

Good luck with names.

xx

[*Efjay*]

I would use the full name if I liked it & just tell people that the name is NOT the shortened name. For years I hated people calling me Fi. To me it sounded like a poodle name "FiFi". But I can't escape it & have given up telling people not to call me that. Its weird, as a kid not many people did it but as an adult every other person (especially online) calls me Fi. I much prefer Efjay or FJ (which started here as my username use to be FionaJill) But yeah, I've accepted that Fi isn't all bad & just go with it now.

[Arimeh]

Awesome thanks guys! I think we have a name in that case!

[feeb]

DS2 name is shorterned by both my SIL's, I do not like it being shortened as that is not his name and probably because 1 has annoyed me a lot!!! LOL

[Jennifer13]

We chose names that really can't be shortened. I'm considering a name that's usually the shortened form of a family name if this one is another DD, so there'd be no shortening of that either.

But then, I'm kinda out of ideas this time for a girl!