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Bittersweet12 · 2021-04-29T08:30:09+00:00

Me and my partner like Royce but the idea of it being shorted to Roy I'm not a fan on! Does anyone know. Royce and are they called roy? Or would you call someone Royce roy?

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Moonlaserbearwolf · 09/05/2021 19:32

I reckon people are more likely to lengthen it - to Roycie

lalafafa · 09/05/2021 19:22

Dont emigrate to Australia. Poor kid

CirqueDeMorgue · 09/05/2021 14:56

Old man name.

KirstenBlest · 09/05/2021 14:53

Surname as first name.
Is your surname Rolls?

Saltandshake82 · 09/05/2021 06:24

OP- I agree you didn't ask for opinions

I haven't personally heard anyone with the name. I don't necessarily think it would be shortened to Roy. Especially if you make it clear. I know of a Royson who uses Roy.

Lollypop4 · 09/05/2021 00:07

Rolls or Roy.
He will be teased.

MimiDaisy11 · 08/05/2021 23:59

I knew a Royce at university and it wasn't shortened. Don't know if it was when he was at school. It's not like it's a long name.

EuphieKat · 08/05/2021 03:03

OP I knew a Royce and it was never shortened.

Chilldonaldchill · 07/05/2021 09:22

Mumsnet is obsessed with the fact that "everyone" will shorten a name.
I don't know if it's a regional thing.
My children all have long names with "natural" shortenings (think Isabella, Samantha and Theodore - these are not the actual names) and they are now 19,17 and 16 and their names are just never shortened - not by friends, family, teachers etc - and never have been. They have nn's at home that are not shortenings or natural nn's based on their names.
It's not a given that it will happen.
I would not think of shortening Royce to Roy. I would be much more inclined to use Roycie if I knew a Royce and wanted to use a nn.

chaosrabbitland · 07/05/2021 07:24

@AuntieStella

Roy is definitely the least worst nn

One of the great strengths of the MN name board is that people will say what they think of a name, unfiltered by the manners that you would employ in RL (where I'd been saying 'what an interesting name')

If not Riy, then it'll be Rolls or Roly

i think this too , id rather people just told me the truth , when i was pregnant with dd i really wanted to call her marguetite in honour of marguerite duras my fav author and a woman who had the most fascinating life and personality , i was soon put straight by everyone i spoke too lol , its a lovely name ,but the real marguerite duras was dark sultry and exotic looking , unlike dd who is quite fair and cutesie lol, as well it was pointed out it would be shortened to maggie which i hate or rita which i wasnt keen on either

AlwaysLatte · 07/05/2021 06:57

Disgusting is a terrible name for a child.

chaosrabbitland · 07/05/2021 06:45

@Pedalpushers

People on here are so weird. So what if people call a kid Rolls Royce? It's hardly going to scar someone for life. You could call a kid David and someone at school would decide to call him shithead, I really don't get the obsession with what kids at school might say. A girl at my school was called Katherine and people decided it was hilarious to call her Beverley for gods sake.

I wouldn't shorten Royce as it's already one syllable. Some people might but you do have some control over nicknames - people have started off shortening my name my whole life and have always stopped after I asked them not to.

but it can leave scars though , my parents called me carmen , even though theres not a drop of spanish blood in me ,i was the only kid in the whole school with the name and the piss taking was unbeliviable , whilst they were finding it funny i was wishing id been called something else , it took me literally years to actually like and appreciate my name , you are right in that if kids are going to pick they will find anything thats very true , but why help it along with a name that makes them a really easy target , . things might have changed since the 80s regarding kids bullying over different names ,what with so many different ones about now since then , but from what my tween tells me they are still just as vicious now as then . there is a very overweight boy in her yr group and practically the whole form is amusing themselves calling him a teletubbie and all the rest .

its all very well saying you like a name but you have to think of the child who has to live with it , which is why when i wanted a different very uncommon name for my dd , we spent ages and ages picking and i made damn sure no one could take the piss out of it , trust me it does leave the scars . i still remember the bullying i got for my name all these yrs later at nearly 49

babycheeseplant · 07/05/2021 06:28

If I like the name I will use the name disgusting

Disgusting is a terrible name for a child.

tinytemper66 · 07/05/2021 06:15

@Bittersweet12

HahahhahaanHhHh this is so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I don't care if you like the name I like the name and so do my friends and family

No accounting for taste. Be prepared for teasing and nicknames.

HappyTimeTunnelDinosaur · 07/05/2021 06:05

I do think it would get shortened to Roy, it just sort of comes naturally with it. I wouldn't worry about Rolls Royce as such, although it could be used for bullying if overweight at any point.

Marcis · 07/05/2021 03:14

Are the siblings Raeya, Rori & Rocco by chance?

I knew a Royce who changed his name to Roly by deed poll as he spent his whole childhood being called Rolls and it stuck. Take that as you will.

wildeverose · 05/05/2021 00:15

I imagine he will shorten it to Roy himself when he's older because he'd have spent his childhood being called rolls.

Crankley · 30/04/2021 14:55

Ah, I remember your post about naming your DD Raeya or similar as thiswaythat said. You also had hysterics on that thread about people giving their opinions. You appear to be under the misapprehension that you can tell people what they can and cannot post about on here.

gottakeeponmovin · 30/04/2021 08:27

He's the one who raped Rosalie in twighlight

MrsMoastyToasty · 29/04/2021 22:11

Its also a lingerie brand.

thiswaythat · 29/04/2021 22:10

Oh... I think it's Raeya. Which is no where near as bad as Royce

thiswaythat · 29/04/2021 22:06

I really really wanna know what your daughters name is

Mrbob · 29/04/2021 21:55

Why do people do this to their children?

LarsErickssong · 29/04/2021 21:51

@SummerInSun

Leaving aside the specific name, I thing parents who pick a name with an obvious nickname that they don't like tend to spend their child's childhood fighting a losing battle. Don't choose Christopher if you hate Chris; don't choose Patrick if you hate Pat, don't choose Benjamin of you hate Ben, etc

I've known a few cases like that, and ultimately the child decides what he wants to be called - if he always insists on the full name (and has the confidence to tell teachers, friends, etc that repeatedly) the long version will stick. If the child prefers the short version, no one outside family will ever call him that.

God yes my MIL is like this, my partner has a very common name which has at least 4 common nicknames, his sister calls him one NN, his friends another NN and me another NN eg Ben, Benji and benj if his name was Benjamin. If one of us accidentally calls him one of these in front of MIL she gets really angry

SummerInSun · 29/04/2021 21:33

Leaving aside the specific name, I thing parents who pick a name with an obvious nickname that they don't like tend to spend their child's childhood fighting a losing battle. Don't choose Christopher if you hate Chris; don't choose Patrick if you hate Pat, don't choose Benjamin of you hate Ben, etc

I've known a few cases like that, and ultimately the child decides what he wants to be called - if he always insists on the full name (and has the confidence to tell teachers, friends, etc that repeatedly) the long version will stick. If the child prefers the short version, no one outside family will ever call him that.