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Ellie and Ollie?

39 replies

ShyOwl · 05/07/2020 18:51

DD is an Elizabeth but everyone calls her Ellie. Currently expecting a boy and the only name we agree on is Oliver. But we can't decide if it sounds silly?
Even if we didn't shorten his name to Ollie like we did DD from the beginning it will get shortened eventually to Ollie won't it?

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Tavannach · 05/07/2020 20:16

Too twee fpr me, sorry.

Nihiloxica · 05/07/2020 20:12

Not all Olivers become Ollies.

daisypond · 05/07/2020 20:12

How old is your DD? Young enough to change the short form to something else? Ellie isn’t an obvious short form for Elizabeth and there are millions of others. Then you could have Oliver and Ollie.

darcie3 · 05/07/2020 20:10

I like it! I love Ellie and I love Ollie too, think they're perfect names x

scrivette · 05/07/2020 19:55

I think it sounds nice, if when they are older they are not keen they can revert to using their full names.

ZoyaTheDestroyer · 05/07/2020 19:44

Millie and Lily, Jonathan and Nathan, and Molly and Ellie aren’t really comparable because they have such distinct consonant sounds at the beginning. Ollie and Ellie will be indistinguishable when shouted across a playground / up the stairs etc.

SeasonFinale · 05/07/2020 19:35

If you always call him Oliver then it may not. It will be when he is older and decides for himself that he wants to be an Ollie that it may happen.

Phthalo · 05/07/2020 19:20

I know a mother and son combo but I suspect they only noticed once he was named. I would not do it for siblings!

Callybrid · 05/07/2020 19:17

I think it’s fine. I’ve come across a Millie and Lilly, a Jonathan and Nathan, and a Lucy and Lacey in my playgroup days, and actually didn’t seem so bad after you get used to it.
I think Elizabeth and Oliver is actually quite different - she might end up preferring her full name or Eliza and I know a few Oliver’s who have never been Ollies. Even if they are Ellie and Ollie, I quite like it. The real problem is if you have a third, you’ll feel duty bound to call it Allison or Alastair.

Pickles89 · 05/07/2020 19:06

Of course it sounds silly.

How about Oscar?

Sawyersfishbiscuits · 05/07/2020 19:05

I had a friend who had two girls called Molly and Ellie... never seemed odd?

It's fine

BobFleming · 05/07/2020 18:56

Yes, and the 2 sound too twee.

sibbys · 05/07/2020 18:53

Yes it will. Don't do it

sibbys · 05/07/2020 18:53

Yes it will. Don't do it

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