Girls names that aren't traditionally shortened

[HowCanADoorBeAJar]

Hi, I am a newbie here, expecting a girl in June.

DH is quite unfussed about names being shortened and doesn't have strong opinions regarding nicknames but I'm not a fan. His only stipulation is that the name must not be too popular. I agree with this, I don't want our daughter to be one of 5 Lilys in her class. My dislike of names that can be shortened stems from having a name that has a variety of nicknames. Therefore, we don't want names like Samantha or Jessica.

Our tentative list:

Niamh
Mia - would everyone call her Mimi?
Hannah - too popular?
Eden

Any ideas please for a fussy customer?

[Tigerbomb]

Eve

[RandomMess]

Gail
Dawn
Eve
Sarah
Zara

My Hannah is called "H" btw!

[Panzee]

June?

[Plonker]

IME short names with no obvious nn can often get lengthened, Eve gets Evie, Grace gets Gracie, Anne gets Annie, Hope gets Hopey (yes I really know one of these!) and my Mia does get affectionately called Mimi

That said, I have cousins with names that are always traditionally shortened ...theirs are never shortened ...it just wouldn't be them.

[jammydodger1]

Tilly
Ella
Mary
Eva
but I really like Mia

[Plonker]

...and Hannah in our street is, and always has, been known as Hannie

[belgo]

Mia is a shortened name in itself - short form of Maria/Anne-Maria.

[jammydodger1]

sorry me again please dont shoot me but I chose names girls names that could be shortened to boys name (thinking ahead for CV) so there would be no discrimination against them being female
Georgina - George
Charlotte - charlie
Francesca - Frank
you get the picture!

[RandomMess]

I always wanted billie for a girl long before billie Piper was on the scene!

Lois?

[ButterPopcorn]

Amy
Laura
Sarah
Mary
Faye
Paige
Cara
Marie
Heather
Helen
Erika
Sascha
Chloe
Kate (not Catherine, but just Kate on its own)
Rhian
Lucy
Holly
Anna
Nancy

[PopcornBiscuit]

Cara
Nina
Louise
Anne
May
Emma
Georgia

[BendyBob]

Plonker is right. Both my girls have short names I didn't think could be messed about with at all. You should hear the names - some of them totally daft and wacky - that their friends call them.

It's true though, even a long name needn't be shortened as long as you keep reinforcing it yourself. Ultimately though it's up to the owner of the name as to what they'll accept as a nickname.

[strandednomore]

Yes I thought June immediately too!

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Lola
Mary
Orla
Nuala

[GrimmaTheNome]

I knew someone whose mother named her Helen fondly believing it couldn't be shortened. Unfortunately it can!

[GrimmaTheNome]

I know an Emma who gets called Ems.
Louse - Lou.

Almost anything with more than one syllable is liable to get shortened!

[GrimmaTheNome]

Louise. (never known a 'louse'!)

[HolyNoSheDittantBatman]

Pretty much anything can be shortened. If it is difficult to shorten it gets made longer. I have a very short name and have been called all number of longer nicknames. I'd go for a name you don't mind the shorter version of to be on the safe side.

[startail]

Hollie
Rachel
May
Lynn
Alice (could become Ali, but DDs DF doesn't)
Claire
Esme
Lucy
Sorry Hellen becomes Hel
Emma and Emily become Emms or Emmy.
Megan becomes Meg, but that's so inoffensive as not to matter.
Jane

But clearly if a name doesn't shorten some on will come up with a nn anyway.
I know a grown man who still goes by the female nn he got at primary school.
There were several x's at a very small school so it was convenient to call them something else.
It was many years before I even realised it was a girls name, it just suits him.

[pommedechocolat]

Holly becomes hols.

[HolyNoSheDittantBatman]

Rachel is either Rae or Rach
Alice is Ali
Esme is Es
Lucy is Loose

[kbsydney]

Zara
Thea
Ella
Sarah
Sadie
Piper

[CointreauVersial]

OP, I'm like you - can't bear names being shortened.

DD1 is Erin - pretty tough to mess with that name.

[surprisearrival]

my little girl is Amy but I call her moo or missy .. even the shortest names will get a nickname!

:-)