Could Reggie work as an everyday shortening for Peregrine?

There's a chihuahua called Reggie in our village.

You can assign whatever nickname you like to begin, and I actually think Reggie works, but good to be aware that nicknames generally choose themselves so you’ll have every likelihood of raising a Pez 😂

The university educated clarification niggled me too although i’m sure you didn’t mean it as it came across and were thinking maybe it meant more likelihood of exposure to a greater range of people from different/more varied walks of life, for a greater Peregrine reaction sample? though I’m not sure I follow on that one either

More concerningly for a kid these days is the assumption I think that the first mayflower pilgrim born in North America is a positive association. Not so sure on that one.

All the best for a happy and healthy pregnancy and birth

Definitely a contrast!

Reggie is quite a popular name at the moment amongst working class families in my area. I think it will date really badly in a few years.

I've never met a Peregrine in real life but I'd assume either genuinely incredibly posh or hugely pretentious tbh.

Are you the OP? Safe to say we (and the vast majority of people from reading this thread) have differing opinions on names we "particularly dislike" ... but in any case: yes, you can shorten Peregrine to Reggie or Grinnie or whatever you want IF you refer to your child like that from birth (with family and friends) and within childcare etc circles from an early age.

Peregrine, poor kid. If you like Reggie, just use that. Shortening a name immediately/ always is just stupid

I am not planning on naming a baby Teddy or Edward and didn't say or imply that I intended to in my post. I was merely saying that using Teddy as a diminutive for Edward didn't strike me as strange.

Theodore is a name I particularly dislike. I prefer Peregrine by far.

Never heard the name peregrine and can't imagine naming my child after a bird of prey.

The issue is that it doesn’t matter what you want the diminutive of a name to be, once they get to school, work etc they often end up with the most random names.

I got talked out of a similar female random name and I’m glad I did now

I never get these posts. I thought that nicknames were organic, not mandated by parents

@PeonyBulb - thank you for this. In my head I was thinking that Peregrine sounds posh and Reggie sounds working class, but I couldn't think of the right way to describe it. It would definitely be odd to have one as a shortened version of another.

I'd suggest Theodore shortened to Teddy instead. Posh but not awful like peregrine (sorry)

You like Peregrine but you're ending up with a 'Reg' which in your own words you're not keen on (and IMO is not nice). Don't do it.

Just find a hyper-posh first name you can use day to day and keep the crazy name as a middle.

My neighbours pug is called Reggie 😁

Peregrine, is a dreadful name, please don't saddle your child with it. If you do, I can guarantee, everyone will call him Perry and once he's had the piss taken out of him several times, he will refer to himself as Perry too. It's as bad as Tarquin.

Reggie is traditionally short for Reginald, not Peregrine. Nowadays it's used in its own right, the same as Eddie, Archie, Teddy, Alfie etc.

Children generally want to fit in with their peers. Saddling him with a name like Peregrine, means he will stand out for all the wrong reasons. Don't do it to him, it's him that has to live with the name, go through school, not you.

Wait I assumed Guy's schoolboy love WAS a man?

Reggie and Peregrine are from two completely different worlds.

You could shorten Peregrine to Pippin (like Pippin Tonks in Lord of the Rings - also Callie Cole’s son Peregrine is a Pippin)

"I asked my university educated colleagues" 😂 😂 😂

I don't think Reggie for Peregrine works at all because they are completely different sounds.
Perry is the normal diminutive for Peregrine .
If you like Reggie call him Reggie or Reginald.

If this is for a human child, don't be daft. If you're naming a puppy, crack on.

Names are mostly altered by sound not by spelling (hence Ted or Ned from Edward), so Peregrine will become Perry, Pez, Pezza in the playground, or Reg to rhyme with egg. That is, unless you go out of your way to call him Reggie (to rhyme with edgy) from the off, in which case no one will ever use Peregrine. I like some ‘nature’ names, but Peregrine is, to me, a stretch too far and could fit in the list of baby names in the sitcom “Here we go.” (Sorry!)

I don’t much like Hector - the verb ‘to hector’ isn’t nice and it could be shortened to Heck. Edmund would be my choice from your list and works with a Morwenna. If this isn’t a wind-up. And maybe if people wonder if it’s a wind-up, that tells you something…

Happy naming, though!

Oh,does anyone remember the Black Comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perin.

I rather like Peregrine and I think Perry is miles better than Reggie.

I’m glad you made sure to ask the opinion of your university educated colleagues 😑

Awful name (I’m uneducated though so you might want to ignore my opinion!)

Both awful, and shortened names are unnecessary, have a name, leave it alone. My late DM gave me a name you cannot shorten or mess with, I did the same with my dks.

Not sure your child will thank you if you call them Peregrine