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If you don't want to be called aunt or auntie why not just use your given name. Chances are the child will naturally mispronounce your name and so your nickname will reveal itself.
It's true what the pp said above, just let them use your name and they will pronounce it in their own baby way, which often becomes a cute title. My dd1 couldn't pronounce my sis in laws name and so said it her own cute way, it stuck and the others tend to use it as well.
Probably should have added, everyone else in my family already has a nickname picked so I don't want to be the odd one out
This is... weird, no? I honestly think it's helpful for children to call their relatives by titles so that they get everyone straight: aunties, uncles, grannies, grandads, mums and dads. Calling everyone by their name is also fine. But having a nickname for everyone in their family? That no one except the children use? That's just confusing as heck.
But also, in that situation, I would be totally fine being the odd one out.
