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What are your kid's names shortened to?

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Twinkie1 · 10/04/2008 11:14

Just thinking after reading - is Peter a boring name thread - how I would hate the DCs to have names that sounded awful shortened - Dave, Phil, Pete etc.

What are your kids names shortened to and do any of you get pissed that they are shortened at all - DS has a really weird long name that is shortened - as we call him the shortened version - not his Sunday name- DD's is never really shortened - some call her Hetty (which she hates) or H but never anything which I find really horrid!

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Enid · 11/04/2008 10:21

top 2 have names that so far have not been shortened

dd3 is Beatrice so invariably Bea

although when she starts school they insist on calling children their full given name

serenity · 11/04/2008 10:19

I liked the short forms of the DSs names, but gave them the long version so they a choice iyswim (Nick/Nicholas and Matt/Matthew)

DD is Lydia, which I didn't think could really be shortened, but she does get called 'Dia', as that's how she used to say her own name.

Martha200 · 11/04/2008 10:06

Both my boys have names that can be shortened but we don't.. neither do the family. Always thought it would be up to them if they want to be shortened versions as they are older.
DS1 is nearly 5 and prefers his name as it is and tells people this if they then shorten it!

CantSleepWontSleep · 11/04/2008 09:08

Thanks 2.4 .

sweetkitty · 11/04/2008 08:33

DD1 is Abs, DD2 is Tals

2point4kids · 11/04/2008 08:32

I specifically chose names for both my boys that have long versions and short versions because my name cant be shortened and i always wanted a nickname when i was younger!

DS1 is Oliver/Ollie
DS2 is Edward/Ted

cantsleepwontsleep - Ilove the name Pippa!

stoppinattwo · 11/04/2008 08:29

DS is Con, DD is Moo

CantSleepWontSleep · 11/04/2008 08:22

Dd is Philippa, but known as Pippa. It actually sounds rather odd when people call her by her full name!

HereComeTheGirls · 11/04/2008 07:34

my DD is called Kirsten and I affectionately call her Kiki, I get some funny looks though, when people think that is her real name!!

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ninedragons · 11/04/2008 03:52

We picked a name that couldn't be shortened. I'm Australian and my compatriots are absolutely dreadful about shortening every name they come across. You would think there was a tax on long words.

anitaj1982 · 11/04/2008 03:02

all our names got shortened, DH FROM AMOS TO AMY, ME FROM NATALIE TO NAT AND DD AMELIE TO LILY, LEE, LILIA THE LIST GOES ON, SUITS HER THOUGH, AND DONT THINK CAN STOP CALLING DH AMY, LOL

Desiderata · 11/04/2008 01:34

I call mine Benito, which is short for Mussolini.

amytheearwaxbanisher · 11/04/2008 01:25

conor 2.8 is conor cono conbean coney little con shall i go on

unknownrebelbang · 11/04/2008 01:12

Idris, DH is a Bob (to colleagues) but some friends call him Ben.

His father is the only person I know who calls him Robert (I call him Rob.)

unknownrebelbang · 11/04/2008 01:12

DS1's name is never shortened by me or DH, although is by other people, and is on this thread.

DS2's name was shortened from the day he was born, and although I stick to the one shortened form, he himself has been known to use all sorts of variations.

DS3 has a mix of both his proper name, and the shortened form.

All three boys are referred to by their surnameyyy.

My name is a shortened version of a proper name, with a slighty different spelling, so everyone spells it wrong and/or assumes it's short for the proper name.

fortyplus · 11/04/2008 00:07

Hasten to add that it's not a shortened version of his real name!

fortyplus · 11/04/2008 00:06

ds1 came home from school complaining that some of his friends had started calling him 'Brannigan Trout'

sussies · 10/04/2008 22:49

4kids dd's best friend is called Paris, she gets called Paz.

sussies · 10/04/2008 22:44

My niece is 2 and SHE decided last week that she wants to change her name to Ez! tis ok a lot better than dd who at 2 wanted to be called Marjorie.

IdrisTheDragon · 10/04/2008 22:25

DS is Benjamin. He quite often gets called Ben. I am used to it now, but I still don't understand why people do just shorten names when they aren't known by that name.

I randomly call him Bob sometimes - started at Benja-bob and turns into Bob.

DD is Alice and doesn't seem to get called anything other than Alice.

RustyBear · 10/04/2008 22:20

DS is Matthew, & gets called Matt, which I like.
DD is Amber, which I thought couldn't be shortened, but she gets called Bambi. She has a friend Mike Rack who gets called Crack but she also has friends called Pie and Satch, which bear no resemblance to any part of their names.

Oh, and DS has a friend whose surname is Walsh-Atkins - known to one and all (including himself) as Shat.

hippipotami · 10/04/2008 22:10

Oliver gets shortened to good old Ollie. (which is not my favourite but even I call him it sometimes)
Emily gets shortened to Ems by me, dh and ds, but Em by her best friend.

gigglewitch · 10/04/2008 22:09

haven't read all the posts (sorry) but my kids names tend to get lengthened and they're all 5 or aix letter / two / three syllable ones
what's that all about?

Hulababy · 10/04/2008 22:05

I never thought DD's name would be shortened - but it is. Once she got to be about 4y and at nursery and then school Mollie got shortened to Moll. Not all the time, but a significant number of times. DD is used to it now. I have even found myself saying it before now, and I don;t even lik the shortened nickname!