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Full name for Emmy

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Sept2024 · 04/09/2024 07:24

7 months pregnant wirh baby girl. my partner and i have named our baby girl Emmy, thinking her full name will be Clementine.

ive had feedback from others though that clementine is just a tad too unique (i dont mind feedback!). Wondering if anyone can think of another full name for Emmy that isnt Emily, Emma, Emmerson or Emmeline?

fhanks!

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Edingril · 04/09/2024 12:51

Emmeline is all I can think of, can't see the link with Emmy and Clementine

Oor · 04/09/2024 12:50

CheeseWisely · 04/09/2024 10:29

Is it? My nickname (that I go by almost all the time) begins with a different letter to my full name and it's never been an issue? I can't think how it would be an issue?

OP I prefer Clementine to all the alternatives suggested, aside from Emmeline which is also lovely.

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Having a nickname that starts with a different letter to my full name has never affected me at all. I haven’t even thought about it before

SilverBranchGoldenPears · 04/09/2024 12:47

Emmeline. Mother of women’s rights movement!

(my daughter is named after her!)

but Clementine is fabulous too!

Sawitch · 04/09/2024 12:46

Just name her Emmy. We gave our daughter a longer name in case she wanted to use it as an adult but always used the shortened version. She wishes we'd just given her the shortened version as she doesn't relate to the longer name at all.

ilikeeggs · 04/09/2024 12:37

Emerald?

AbraAbraCadabra · 04/09/2024 12:35

Clementine is lovely. And not that unique at all. But what's wrong with name being unique anyway?!?

IggyAce · 04/09/2024 12:21

If you both like Emmy just go with that no need for a longer name on the birth cert. If you do go for a longer name you run the risk of not getting your preferred nn once she starts school.

From experience my dd is Imogen and as a baby & toddler she was Immy, once she started school she didn’t like that nn so became Imogen for a while her nn was then Imz, Idgy and now as nearly an adult she goes by Midge to family and close friends.

sel2223 · 04/09/2024 12:15

Your baby will have whatever nickname you give her while she's young, then later she might choose to go by something else.
I say stick with Clementine/Emmy if that's the name you love. People just get a bit funny at anything even slightly away from the 'norm' these days, they'll soon get used to it and won't be able to imagine her with any other name

Abracadabra12 · 04/09/2024 11:46

MerryMarys · 04/09/2024 10:26

I've know a couple of Clementines who are called Clem. I much prefer your shortening to it!

But Clementine's friends are likely to call her Clem or Clemmie. That's the easiest and most intuitive shortening

But surely they won't call her that if she's introduced/introduces herself as Emmy?

caringcarer · 04/09/2024 11:33

Nothing wrong with Clementine. It's my DH grans name.

Emilia is a very pretty name.

Nothing wrong with just Emmy either.

SquigglePigs · 04/09/2024 11:14

What about Ember?

LadyGabriella · 04/09/2024 11:13

Emmanuela
Emmanuelle

frenchbreadandbites · 04/09/2024 11:12

@MelodyMalone same! That's why I choose Emilia for my daughter! 😂

pinkfleece · 04/09/2024 11:08

MelodyMalone · 04/09/2024 10:11

Elizabeth? Rebecca? Amelia (Millie)?

Im sure there are more examples, but those are all common instances of names where the typical nicknames begin with a different letter.

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Yes.

I have a name and a nickname that begin with different letters.

It is a right pain in the backside.

LadyGabriella · 04/09/2024 11:03

You should use a name you love, clementine isn’t too unusual.
Esmee?

CoffeeBeansGalore · 04/09/2024 11:03

Esme (Ez mee) could alternate to Emmie?

MelodyMalone · 04/09/2024 10:58

Why not? If you can have Liz or Beth or Betty for Elizabeth, Tina for Christina, Millie for Amelia, Lottie for Charlotte, Lexie for Alexandra, Katie for Catherine, etc etc, I really don't see what's wrong with Emmy for Clementine.

HeySummerWhereAreYou · 04/09/2024 10:57

Scottishgirl85 · 04/09/2024 10:53

Emmy really isn't a shortened version of Clementine.

This. She will get called CLEMMIE. Sounds far too much like CLAMMY.

Not for me. Clementine is a bloody awful name sorry @Sept2024

Scottishgirl85 · 04/09/2024 10:53

Emmy really isn't a shortened version of Clementine.

HanSB · 04/09/2024 10:52

Noemie

MelodyMalone · 04/09/2024 10:52

I think if you call her Emmie, introduce her as Emmie, etc, that's what people will call her regardless of her real name being Clementine.

Of course she might choose her own nickname later and prefer to be known as Clem or Clemmie or even something else.

harlacem0507 · 04/09/2024 10:49

My 14 month old is called Emmie. Not a nickname, that's her name! Everyone seems to love it, my partner was more keen on it than me as I didn't know any Emmie's, and when I was pregnant it was either that or Ellie, but Emmie was slightly more unique so we went for that and we love it.

I have since met a few babies/girls called Emmie, one spelling was Emie and the other Emmy, I don't like how either of these are spelt but it's peoples preference isn't it! I also have a daughter called Lacey. We shorten that to Lace when calling for her etc and Emmie sometimes gets the nickname Emzie 🤣🤣

Clementine is a lovely name but I agree with others that Emmie isn't a nickname for that it's more than likely to be Clemmie or Clem xxx

happytobee · 04/09/2024 10:48

I know a lovely young person called Emmylou (named after the singer Emmylou Harris I believe), she loves her name and also gets the nickname Em or Emmy (or Lou Lou!!).

longdistanceclaraclara · 04/09/2024 10:32

I like Clementine but it doesn't lead to Emmy. She'll be Clem or Clemmie to her friends unless you only call her Emmy and never use her given name which makes it rather pointless in having one. Emmy will get shortened to Em anyway

JFDIYOLO · 04/09/2024 10:31

Whatever you choose - make it easy to spell. I've spent my life with a name with four different possible spellings and people constantly get it wrong. On a certificate. On a credit. On a leaving card, yet ...

Put it with the surname - is it harmonious?

Are the initials ok and don't spell anything off? (EG my schoolfriend S.T.D. - nobody noticed til too late ...)

How will it look on a business card? A nameplate? A byline?

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