Would it get shortened ??????

Hiya

Well im in the home stretch now, only 3 - 4 weeks to go. We dont know what we're having but i think we have finally agreed on a boys name. We love Ava Grace for a girl but i also love the name Claudia, the only reason we crossed it off the list is that we were really worried it would get shortened to Claude. What do you think ? Do you know a Claudia that gets shortened or would you tend to shorten it ?? I really love it and cant stop thinking about it now its getting so close :doh:

Thanks in Advance :D

Id never think of shortening Claudia

I'm afraid I do know a Claudia & she does get Claude for short. Bizarrely she also gets 'Claire' when people forget her name....?!

I love Ava Grace by the way!

I wouldn't shorten it. If people do, you can correct them, it's easy enough. Claude's a boy's name so I wouldn't shorten Claudia to Claude anyway.

I know a Claudia and on a few occassions I have heard people shorten her name to "Clod" or "Clauds". Persoanlly, I dont shorten it. Its not really a long name anyway. I think most names get shortened in some way - i think its pretty unavoiable. Mine gets shortedned to Kaz and Kar.

All names get shortened :( And despite all my best efforts, the family & CC call Patrick "patty". I've tried to correct them to "pip" or "patrick" or "paddy" but nope, it just comes out.

Think of it as a form of affection :)

The Claudia I know is Italian and pronounces it cloud-i-a and we shorten her to claudi (as in cloudy). I quite like it.

But Ava Grace is beautiful too....

I would probably expect it to be shortened to "Claudee" or something cute like that.. which I think is CUTE.

However, this is coming from someone who calls her daughter "kelti-coo" for short.. LOL

yes i think it would get shortened.

hmm I don't think I would shorten it. I actually don't know any claudias IRL but I know a few Avas

I went to school with a Claudia and it never occured to any of us to ever shorten it. She always to this day is just "Claudia".

An ex-boyfriends sister was a Claudia ... and his nickname for her was Calipo ;)

Also i have worked with a Claudia whom i did nickname Claudy ... but i often but a ' y ' on the end my mates nicknames ;)

I LOVE the name Claudia ... it sounds very pretty !!!!!!!

I must say straight away i thought of Claude

i must say though people will shorten most names
I get tan, or tanny (my name is Tania)
Hubby is Stew or Stewy
DD is Em or m&m ( Emma)
Ds1 is Ham, mish mishimoo (Hamish)
DS2 is Lochie, loch (lachlan)

I like Ava and Claudia

Yep I think it will be shortened, Aussies have a way of shortening every name possible. I have a GF that calls my son Ewy and here we were thinking Ewan wasn't really a name that would be shortened. And bizarrely if names can't be shortened people tend to lengthen them - such as Brettly or Bretto instead of Brett!!!

Thanks everyone, i know you can try to stop people shortening but i guess it still happens. Such a shame because i LOVE the name but really wouldnt want it shortened, looks like we might stick with Ava. Lol Krisp i know what you mean about lengthening. When i was preg with Blake we thought no one could shorten that but now he gets Blakey - which i HATE and as much as you try to stop it, you cant all the time. Im sure even Ava would get some kind of nn but what can you do !! hehe

Thanks again everyone :D

I would probably only shorten it if I heard the parents or other close family/friends shorten it first.

I agree with a previous poster that Claude is a boys name.

I think if you love it, go for it. People will shorten names regardless - all you can do is correct them and use the name you prefer in front of them. Both of your chosen names are gorgeous btw.

Just to add - my DS doesn't have a long name, but it is 3 syllables. I hate him being called just the first syllable only! Thankfully, he associates that with a Thomas the Tank engine now so when my Dad, despite 2 years of telling him it's the full name not the short one, calls him the short one he'll have to read DS's favourite Thomas book to him! Hahaha! Dad's the only one to call him anything but his full name, though. I stopped MiL babying it up, my Mum and Sister have been told off (Sis now calls DS "Smudge" or "Smudgemeister" as a NN as I don't object to that!), Nursery were corrected on day 1 and no hassles thereafter... just my Dad. And Claudia isn't a name with a very common nickname so you may not even have those hassles.

I think it would be shortened. Claudie, Clauds. etc. It's probable by the time they go to school (if they're a girl), someone will think of a way of shortening it. Afterall, my name's Mikayla & my nickname got as short as KK and Mix. So, probably. BUT! Ava Grace, I must say, is a BEAUTIFUL name. (:

Was really interested to see this post as I love the name Claudia too and have it on my wish list if bubs #2 is a girl. Like you though I am worried about it being shortened to Claude. There was a girl I work with called Claudine who was called Claude.

Claudi sounds kind of cute though - better than Claude and positve to see that others have said they wouldn't think of shortening it.

I love the name Ava too but prefer Claudia. Just beautiful.

My god daughter is Claudia Cate, her NN's include:

Claude
Claudes
Cloudia (Italian way of saying it)
Cloudy
CC :D

I think it's a beautiful name and not too popular either.

We are aussie!! Everything will be shortened, even if it ends up actually being longer ;p lol

I would shorten it if I were close to her to Claudy, or Cloudy (depending on how you are planning on having it pronounced.
I love Claudia though, not anywhere near as common as Ava Grace is these days

I dont think there is anything wrong with Claudia being shortened to Claude, but thats just me.

I have heard of Audrey , being shortened to Aude and thats nearly the same.

Maybe you could use Claudio for a nick -name?

Well my daughters name is long and it NEVER gets shortened ;) People will call your child what ever you introduce then as ;) I introduce Annabelle as Annabelle nothing else so they dont call her anything else.
The only person that calls her Bell is her little friend but he'sto little to say Annabelle :rolleyes: