What are your kid's names shortened to?

Hi... names are so personal. I called DD Eleanor as soon as we knew at 20 weeks, but DH immediately shortened it to Ellie so she became Ellie-Belly. DS was named Thomas, which has become Tom, Tommy, Tom-Tom or, for some reason I cannot fathom, Tiddles! (Only by me, thankfully). Any guesses what he was called prior to the birth? Why, Tommy-Tummy of course!

I'm Rebekah, but normally get called Becky (yes the common version but you all have the common spelling of Rebecca ) DH calls me Bex a lot as do most of my longer term freinds. I really wish my parents had shortened it to Becca (or Bekah in my case) as I prefer it to Becky. I love my name but sadly only the doctor or dentist etc call me Rebekah now.

DS1 is Alex as DH has a long name so didn't want Alexander. Mind you I always called him Lexie, or Ally, but now at 14 I'm only allowed to call him Alex or Al (which we do quite a lot)

DS2 is Caleb, doesn't get shortened by anyone but me and I sometimes call him Cabes - dunno why!

DS3 is Dylan and doesn't have his name shortened. I'd hate Dyls and as his middle name begins with a J I have made it very clear he is not to be called DJ!!

DH has many different names and I have to remember who I am speaking to when talking about him as it can get confusing!

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Archie = Archie/Surnamesy
Christabelle Edie Jocasta = known by Edie shortened to Eedes
Ottilie Violet Gracie = Otts
Hamish Jensen Rupert = known as Rupert = Rupe
Araminta = Minty/moo/mintymoo
Flossie Isabella Rose = Furry (FIR) I get VERY angry if anyone tries to shorten Flossie to Floss, then again she is all new and shiny still (22-2-08) so in a year or two I'll probably be doing it myself!

My son is called Dennis. Or Monster for short

Mine are shortened to Kiki and Lulu. I worry when I call them those names as I think it sounds very Harry Enfield circa 1980/90 but individually I love their names.

My ds1 called Jaidon, my nephew is the only one that shortens it to Jady! My ds2 called Brodie and is called Brodie Bear or Boom Boom (as in hey fatty boom boom, he is a BIG boy)!!
I do find it amusing though, when a name cannot be shortened we legnthen it, my nephew Luke is called Lukey and my friends wee boy Ross called Rossy!!

My DD (5) is called Georgia. We shorten it to Georgie most of the time but the in laws keep calling her Georgie Porgie even though I've asked them not to.

They don't understand why it annoys me

Why do I bother!

my ds gets called con or sicknote his name is connor.my dd gets called becs,becky boo,and nanny calls her becky which i hate!!!only gets called rebecca when telling her off.

My DS (4.8) is called Archie which I love - He is NOT Archibald. His friends call him Arch which don't particularly like, but hey ho !

But it gets shortened to Nye, as in Nye (Aneurin) Bevin.

Aneurin = Anor-ring? I'm sure someone was called that in a film/tv show, or I've been served by someone with that name in a shop and asked how it was pronounced. It was a name I ended up using for a story once.

Isn't it Anevrin?

wowyfoss - how do you pronounce Aneurin?

Elizabeth to Bootsy and Bootsylaki. Heidi to Heidiutza.

Sniffy - beware. My friend's Mum chose names that cannot be shortened. Gail is now Gay and Ian is E.

tabitha gets shortened/lengthened to tabby, tabster, tabs, fab, fabba and bun. I tried 'kitty' but she wasn't having it.

lots of my mindees have had names shortened or lenghhtened, RubyBoo, Ossie Bear (Oscar, but answeres to Ossie or Bear ignores you if called oscar) Grumbles (Grace) (as in Gracie grumbles) Rumbles (Reece)as in Reecie rumbles, umm I think we will have to stop it

I've always preferred names that can be shortened but went for Ava with DD - we never shorten or lengthen it. What might she get called? Aves??? (yuk!)

To OP: my dc are called Pete, Phil and Dave.

No, not really, but why not? (FFS). I kind of wish I had called them that, now. Pete Townsend, Dave Stewart, Phil Collins -- awful names, obviously, aren't they?

ours is named Aneurin John but no one knows that! MIL only discovered that Nye wasn't actually his name about six months ago. lol

DD is Evelyn Boo, when she was born we assumed everybody would call her Evie Boo a lot, but people hardly use it now, (she's 2 and a half).
I suspect when she starts school she may become Evie.
DH and I call her Evelyn mostly, but Boo gets used a lot (her middle name).
She calls herself Eberlyn as she's not too hot at pronouncing her Vs!

I also have an Olivia which has gone through about 100 different variations!! Liv-Liv, Livvy, liv-li-la-love-ya-lots, stinkybum mcbumbum (last name starts with mc) peanut (which was her name as a bump). I've actually started calling her Olivia more often now though weird because I wanted to shorten it to livvy when I chose it!

Nelliesmum - my name was shortened to nellie or nell when I was growing up by my parents, and my name is Helen. My best friend calls me 'hellsbellshammerandtongs'