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Flo(ren)ce

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tlove · 28/09/2018 08:49

So Florence full name shortened to Ren (or could be Wren). I love it but will take opinions! Please be kind..... x

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Poppylizzyrose · 28/09/2018 22:35

Lol I just love Florence and ren as a nickname, so happy someone else agrees with me. Let’s make it a thing, nonsense idea that certain names can’t be nicknames, it’s up to us! Ren is in floRENce just pronounce the ren when you tell people x

Kittykatmacbill · 28/09/2018 21:27

Just call her Wren far nicer than Florence.

adulthumanfemail · 28/09/2018 20:40

@Poppylizzyrose LOVE YOU! Let's do it

TheCatFromOuterSpace · 28/09/2018 20:02

I kind of like Ren because of the year of the flood. I think character's full name was Brenda.

Poppylizzyrose · 28/09/2018 19:55

Well I love ren and wren, depends on what you like isn’t it, lots of girls called Robyn...what’s the difference whether you name a child after a flower like rose or a bird like wren.

Woulditbeworth · 28/09/2018 19:54

I know a grown up Renee. It’s a lovely name. x

LadyHooHa · 28/09/2018 19:51

Wren is a silly name for a child. Florence is a beautiful name. If you only ever call her Ren, that's what she will be known as. But please don't saddle her with a ridiculous name (i.e. Wren. Why not Swallow, or Tit?)

Poppylizzyrose · 28/09/2018 19:46

If I didn’t know better I’d think I wrote this post!! My name is Charlotte but I’ve always gone by Charlie, I want to call my baby Florence and nickname her ren! I have a twin lol, if your birthdays 25/10/1988 call me up Shock lol I think it works well and I’ve told lot of people what I’m planning. I dislike flo too but I’m warning to it. I’ve decided ren will be my special name for her and I just have to accept others may call her flo. X

Floyella · 28/09/2018 19:42

You can't say it's 'just' her name on her birth certificate.

It will be what she's called on the first day of school/ when she applies for jobs/ all the time if she likes it.

If you like Ren call her Wren (which is lovely). Charlotte/ Charlie is much more natural so you can't compare it - and if you wanted to be called Lottie (for instance) your parents couldn't have stopped it.

81Byerley · 28/09/2018 19:39

Wren is beautiful in its own right.

TeenTimesTwo · 28/09/2018 19:38

Ren.
=> Diminutive: Rennie
As long as you are happy for her to be referred to as an indigestion tablet.

Florence is currently the most popular baby girls name in our area according to today's local paper.

Call her Renata, Ren for short. She'll have a decent name for when older and because you call her by a diminutive it is less likely to be altered.

I think shortenings which start with a different letter lead to confusion at school and in later life (eg meeting minutes).

81Byerley · 28/09/2018 19:38

People will call her what you do. My Grandson is Obi, short for Tobias!

Dionysa · 28/09/2018 19:33

Gorgeous name. I prefer Floss as a shortened version, though. Ren reminds me (as a PP has said) of Ren and Stimpy and post-pub TV!

RuthW · 28/09/2018 19:30

I have a Florence and have been known to call her Rency. I have think Ren is a lovely shortening. Me and her dad favour Floss but all her friends call her Flo which is fine by me. Basically I think you should call her Florence and the shorten to Ren. If you don't call her Flo others are unlikely to.

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tlove · 28/09/2018 16:57

@n0ne I love it! Ren

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n0ne · 28/09/2018 16:37

Ren is a Japanese girl's name - I used to work with one. She said it meant lotus flower in ancient Japanese.

NonaGrey · 28/09/2018 15:17

No one would be introduced to her as Florence, but as Ren

But the school would have her listed as Florence.

The doctor will have her listed as Florence

Any organisations or clubs she joins will have her listed as Florence

Her passport, driving license, pay slips, work email etc will all say Florence.

You aren’t naming a baby, you are naming an adult. She’ll have to live with the formal name you give her whether you use it or not, everyone else will.

Rebellia · 28/09/2018 15:13

Renata?
Renée?

SunshineOutdoors · 28/09/2018 15:03

There was a character in Neighbours called Ren. I think her full name was Serendipity.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 28/09/2018 15:01

Ren looks weird as a nn for Florence. Just call her Wren.

MarthasGinYard · 28/09/2018 15:00

EhConfused

lynmilne65 · 28/09/2018 14:53

Have an opinion but since being slated by hq am now afraid to say anything

MarthasGinYard · 28/09/2018 14:52

It's a bit like calling a Brenda or Karen 'Ren' IMO

Just doesn't flo

Pardon the pun Grin

Inmyvestandpants · 28/09/2018 14:47

btw, I really like Wren as a name. It think it sounds delicate but earthy. I don't like Ren as an abbreviation of Florence though - but I agree with your view that if you're going to call your child a nickname, you should do them the courtesy of registering a standard name that they can use in official documents etc. You need to imagine how you would feel getting a solicitors' letter signed "Trixie Smith" or "Boo Johnson" - would you trust this person to handle your legal affairs?

Inmyvestandpants · 28/09/2018 14:40

I like Wren. Just so love how feminine Florence is! I'm so annoyed that people call their bloody period 'Aunt Flo' which has ruined 'Flo' for me forever more!

Who gives their period a name? I have never, in 26 years of menstruating, come across that! To me, Aunt Flo is a character out of Bod on telly in the 1970s. I have a Florence, and she's called Flossie, Florrie, Flossance AND FLO. She loves her name - it means "full of life" (From the Italian etymology of the city named Firenze / Florence).

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