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Nicknames for Rebecca that aren't Becky/Becca?

90 replies

mich161616 · 18/11/2013 14:08

Hi,

DH and I really like Rebecca as a name but I really don't like Becky or Becca as a nickname. I just think that even if I always say Rebecca it's so long that others won't and Becky is an inevitability. Can anyone think of any (pretty) alternatives that we could use?

Thanks
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Pie8er · 18/11/2013 20:07

I'm called Rebecca - my parents always insisted it was Rebecca and I've never been called anything else! Sometimes now I go by Becca but that's because I quite fancied a nn!

Minty82 · 18/11/2013 19:13

I think it's possible to avoid Becky; but if you don't llike Becky OR Becca you may have difficulties.

SteeleyeStan · 18/11/2013 18:31

Ray?

I knew a Rebecca who was always just known as Rebecca, never by any nn, at least as a kid.

NiSaBula · 18/11/2013 18:05

My dd is a Rebecca. I'm not keen on becky but she likes it and gets called it by her friends. I call her bex, bexie and becca.

Rtfairy · 18/11/2013 17:59

I am Rebecca, known as Rebecca, Becca, Bec or Becs but never Becky, just never liked it.

staverton · 18/11/2013 15:34

Rebe- said reebee

jumperooo · 18/11/2013 15:32

I know lots of Rebeccas. They are all Becky/Becca/Bex, etc. At least two of them would actually rather be known as Rebecca but feel it's too late when everyone knows them by their NN and their parents used the nickname from early childhood. Both of them have kids and have chosen short "complete" names that can't really be shortened for that reason, funnily enough!

SnakeyMcBadass · 18/11/2013 14:44

Bex?

Beehatch · 18/11/2013 14:44

Bex/Beck
Remi
Reba

phantomhairpuller · 18/11/2013 14:43

I know a Rebecca known as 'Rebbie' or 'Rebs'

I think it's a bit odd tbh Wink

Fishandjam · 18/11/2013 14:43

Reba?

rwepi · 18/11/2013 14:42

It will be your daughter who decides what her nickname is.

My sister is Rebecca and among the family has always been called Rebecca. She (even as a child) hated Becky and her friends have always called her Becca - it is how she introduces herself.

I know a Becs

aufaniae · 18/11/2013 14:41

Becs?

itscockyfoxagain · 18/11/2013 14:40

I don't like the usual short form of DDs name - everyone uses the full version, she is 4 it isn't inevitable that it will be shortened.

VirtuallyReal · 18/11/2013 14:37

If I didn't like the inevitable shortening, I wouldn't use the name. I rejected a few lovely names for precisely this reason.