If your name is 3+ syllables

I have a 4 syllable name, I like it. Sometimes I do shorten it, depends on who I'm with.

Never thought of it as a long name ? Yes I use my name and not a nickname.

Three syllables.
Family use shortened version. I don’t like it, I like my name!
One dc has three syllables, two have two and one has one. It wasn’t something that we really considered.

My sister is Alexandria. She doesn't, and never has, answer to Alex, Lexi, Drina or any other diminutive. It's her name, her choice and IMO it's rude and disrespectful to shorten it without permission. If you introduce yourself as "long name" people should use that.

In the old days when you called your friend's mum "Mrs Richardson", nobody bothered that it was more than two syllables. It's their name.

My name is 3 syllables and quite unusual. The odd person abbreviates it now I'm an adult but I've predominantly gone by the full version and it was never abbreviated when I was a child. I like it and it doesn't feel clunky.

DH has a 3 syllable name that's always been abbreviated to 1.

When we were naming DD we made sure we were happy with the obvious abbreviations (and ruled a few names out because we didn't like the shortened version). She has a 3 syllable name and is predominantly known by a 2 syllable abbreviation and occasionally by a 1 syllable one but I'm the only person who calls her that. She's 5 now and has always introduced herself by the 2 syllable version.

I have an unusual 3 syllable name that I hate, but not really because it's long. More because my (awful) dad chose it, for awful reasons. I use the last two syllables eg Gina from Regina.

My dh has a 1 syllable name that I really love, best boy's name ever imo.

I vowed my own kids would have short simple names, and they do: 3 letters long and 4 letters long for each kid.

It helped dd learn to write her own name in time for her 4+...!

Mine is 3 syllables and I hate it. I go by a short version and gave my children 1 syllable names.

Four syllable name, it often gets shortened to an obvious alternative, but I prefer being addressed by my whole name.

I have a 4 syllable name, its fine.
There is no obvious shortening but my family have always used the same one and never actually used my full name. If I don't introduce myself as my shortened name, people will always shorten it to different things.
Not my name but its like being called Elizabeth who was always called Beth and being called Eli, El, Liz, Liza all the time. Because I was never used to 'Liz' I don't naturally respond to it, same as 'Elizabeth'. I sort of wish they just called me 'Beth' to avoid all the faff.

I gave my children short names, and then used their actual names to refer to them.

DH and I both have 3 syllable names. He always uses the 1 syllable shortening whereas I use a mixture of my full name and the 2 syllable shortening.

Our DCs both have 3 syllable names. One tends to use a 2 syllable nickname, the other uses a single syllable nickname. Both answer to their longer name too though.

I have medium long name - it has only 6 letters, but it's three syllables. I don't go by nickname. I'm not yet naming kids, but my list is mostly longer names - reasonably longer names and I think my future kids will have longer names since that's what I'm gravitating to.
That said, I like idea of using nicknames. But I still love full name. For example, I love Felicity with nickname Fliss - but Felicity is on my list because I love Felicity, not because I love nickname. I mean I do love nickname, but not as actual name.
If you plan to only use nickname, and it seems wrong to you to use full name, use nickname as full name. But if you love full name just use full name in conversation as often as you use nickname. After all, nicknames are often times not that set in stone, plenty of people switched nicknames when they go to phase of life less attached to parents. Besides, Louisa is actually short (compared to many many names) and if you find it troublesome to pronounce it, then it's time for searching other names.

3 syllables and long. I don’t like it, but not because of the length. I have two diminutives, one for work, acquaintances, the bank and so forth, and one single syllable name for friends.

I called my oldest son a name that can’t be shortened, and almost everybody lengthens it instead.

Mine’s four. I wasn’t keen on it when I was younger, but like it now. I use my full name a lot, but a one-syllable version with friends and colleagues. With family it’s a bit of a mixture. I hate the two-syllable version though!

Mine is 4 syllables. For much of my childhood I used two 2 syllable nicknames, both accepted short versions of my name (one for family and one for friends).

As an adult I just use my name.

My kids have 3 syllable (dc1) and 4 syllable (dc2) names. Dc1 uses his full name at all times. Dc2 sometimes uses her full name and sometimes a 2 syllable nickname.

I have a 3 syllable first name and it's always shortened unless it's for something official. It sounds so trivial out loud but, but it did influence how I named my DC because I also have a 3+ syllable surname. I've always struggled to fit my name in the boxes or on the lines filling in forms for things so I gave them shorter forenames

4 syllables, went by a shortened version from age 9 onwards. Would like to be known as the long version now but too difficult to change now for everyone who knows me.
Didn't have any influence on what I named my children

Three syllable name here and have never gone by the diminutive for it as I like it less than I like my own name. 🤭 I have an extra long surname as well. It's never bothered me and I've never have thought of it.

Mine is 3 syllables and my kids are 3/4. I love my name which was unusual at the time now more popular, didn’t deliberately go long for my kids but just had happened!

3 syllable name here and I dislike it but not because of the length. I go by a 1 syllable nickname. Didn't influence naming of DC - one has 2 and the other 3 syllables.

Nope. I hate my name and never use it. I'm always startled if they call it at the Doctor's or somewhere like that.

I'm Hatty to everyone. Birth name is Henrietta and it doesn't feel like me at all. It feels very old fashioned (even though I'm quite old). I don't think it influenced me in naming my DC however.

I have a 3 syllable name and it gets shortened to a 2 syllable nn.

I suppose it did influence my decision in naming my children because I didn't really want them to have names that will defo be shortened

I have a 3 syllable first name, a 3 syllable middle name and a two syllable last name.

My kids have:

2/2/2
1/3/2
2/2/2.

My name is 3 syllables, it doesn’t feel particularly long but I do go by a shortening instead. I wasn’t particularly influenced by the length of my own name. If anything more influenced by DH’s name being just the short version which he doesn’t like so actually influenced more towards longer/full names for that reason.

I do think it also depends on the actual number of letters as to how long the name feels. Evangeline feels longer than Victoria to me even though it’s the same number of syllables.

I have a 3 syllable name that I'm generally called. It's easy to say and imo nice sounding

Our kids have 2 and 3 syllable names

I have a 3 syllable very old fashioned name. I get a mixture. In work I am always my full name, friends it is a mixture according to when they met me. I have a very specific shortened version that my closest family and husband calls me. I have another short version that my oldest friends use. MIL tends to use full name or the short version my friends use.

Our kids both have 2 syllable simple names. Partly because the surname requires spelling every time, partly because my husband is dyslexic, partly because we just liked the feel. I don't have any objections to longer names. Both our kids have very affectionate short names that have nothing to do with their name and they both have shortened versions they sometimes get from friends and each other but they are still quite young.