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May 2011 Moms
Who says your child will need a nickname?
Why do i see peopl, when contemplating names for their babies, say 'but what will his nickname be' or 'well if we name them this they wont be able to have anickname'
so what? y does a kid need a nickname? what ever happened to just naming a child somehtin normal and calling them that. some people seem content with namin their kid somethin they never intend on calling them, they seem more focused on the nickname, and this make no sense.
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Re: Who says your child will need a nickname?
Sort of agree. My DH is always concerned about what the other kids will call him/her when we talk about names.
As a kindergarten teacher and as a kid with a funny name growing up, I know how mean kids can be. I think for some people (DH included) his nickname concern is only when thinking about what the baby COULD be called.
I happen to like a name that my mom thinks has no 'nickname'... SO, I agree with you, just call the baby what I named it.
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I agree! DS is named Elliot and my mom has a friend who asked if we were going to call him by the nickname Eli (as in the Manning brother). If we wanted him to be called Eli, we would have named him that instead!
DH and I purposely chose DS and DD's names (hers will be a secret until birth!) because they couldn't be shortened...yet people still try!
Leaving the teasing nicknames aside, I think it mostly comes down to the kid. I refused nicknames (name shortening) from the minute I could speak, so it never happened. I even work with a woman named Elizabeth who managed to hold firm throughout childhood on not letting anyone call her by the half dozen popular shortenings out there.
On the other hand, if the child is willing to respond to variations, I don't know how much success the parents could have in overriding it.
I have a name with no good nicknames. So I like to keep my kids options open. As it stands, my kid is named John but we call him Jack.
And the "if we wanted him to go by X you should have named him X" argument bugs me. So if we want him called Johnny, put that on the birth certificate? If you want him called Nate, likewise? No. I know more than one Just Jenny and Just Mandy and none of them love it. It is perfectly possible to name your kid a full name like Matthew and have nobody call him Matt. My best friends DH is named Matthew and nobody EVER calls him Matt.
Also my real name is not Patty or Patricia or anything close to it.
Some nicknames are just natural matches with the name.
There's a nut on one of my other boards who named her son "Joseph" and FREAKS OUT at any one that calls him Joe. That is not normal, and makes me question her choice.
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Kudos to your parents for spelling your name the right way (lol, same as me). I am "Rach" a lot too, and sometimes Rackle growing up. Then ever since high school spanish class, my friends started throwing in "Raquel"
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I constantly have to spell my name for everyone and they still don't get it right. I do love the way it is spelled and I think that if it was Rachel I would hate it. Rackle is a new one, have not heard that before and I did not take spanish, I was a french kid and it was Rachelle but it never stuck luckily.
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Meh. We are all too fat and lazy (while sucking down our shakes and eating Mallowmars) to get riled up anyway.
For me it's not that the child NEES a nickname, it's just that I know me and my family, this baby WILL have a nickname!!
My sisters name is April her nicknames are May, Boo, and Prunela.
My name is Elizabeth- nn's- Tish, Lizzy, Beth, Yolanda.
Some of them make sense to the name, a lot don't. So when thinking of names I try to think of how far my family and I can take it.
We purposely picked a name we could NN, and she'll go by her NN if I have it my way, most of the time. It's what I did growing up, and I loved it. My two best friends are named Dani and Cassie, and I couldn't imagine them going by their full names. I've known people though, who purposely name their children something that they think can't be NN'd. It's a personal preference. Shocking everyone doesn't share yours, right?
But I ate fast food yesterday, so what do I know, right?
This makes me think of on Friends when Joey took Ross to the hospital and was like "Name? I know it's Ross, but what's it short for? You know, like Rossell or. . . Rosstopher? "
There's not really a good way to shorten my first name...and I'm ok with that.
My son will be Parker. I don't imagine people will call him Park, but what do I know?
I manage to find nicknames for just about everyone... and already have them picked out for my babies. Actually all I ever call the LOis by their nn... good thing you aren't naming my children! I loved all of the names I went by growing up. My childhood friends still call me by certain names and my coworkers by something else. One of my closest friends still calls me JDub (last name used to be W now M) so it's a name no one now would think of.
i refuse to accept this. you are a dirty liar.
I agree with the person who said that the child will decide for themselves if they want to go by a certain nickname/name shortening or not.
My name is Gwendolyn. Growing up everyone called me Wendy and I almost never went by Gwendolyn. As I got older, I decided I'd prefer the more "grown up" nn of Gwen. In high school (and beyond) I've been called: Wendy, Gwen, Gwenny, Gwenjamin, Guinevere, Gwendoline, etc. My Hubby tried calling me Gwendolyn all the time, since no one ever does. He got tired of it pretty quickly. lol
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I like nicknames. And for the most part if you name your kid Michael it will be shortened to Mike no matter what. So you should think of nicknames when naming your child because no matter what you do the kid will have one.
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I feel you! We just found out our baby is a boy and we are naming him Dorian. My mom (who I avoided telling the name) found out by my sister and she asked me - DORIAN!? How will people pronouce that in Spanish (she doesnt speak Spanish so what does it matter)?
What will his nickname be?
Uh, I dunno, Dori maybe.
DORI?!Dori?!?!
Yeah, it's kinda like LORI (mom's name)
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