Could Reggie work as an everyday shortening for Peregrine?

At the point you are calling them Peregrine, just about any nickname is acceptable too.

@CaptainMyCaptain , I was responding to the poster who said it was 'very Cornish'. Your rather patronising post quoting me wasn't relevant either.

Julian is nice and slightly posh although might be a bit old fashioned. Then he could be Joolz. I don’t like Peregrine and don’t think Reg would work.

Edmund is far nicer than Peregrine.
Not keen on the others on your list though.
But to answer your question no I don’t think Reggie works as a nn, it’s a very different vibe.
Reg could work at a push, prefer Perry though or just call him Peregrine.

Choose Edmund.

Reggie is a bloke name, and Peregrine is much more upstream troutish. Never the twain shall meet.

Morwenna and Edmund has a whiff of Narnia and the Knights of the Round Table (or at least ye olde mists of tyme).

I know what you mean - I’ve read about peregrination in books about pilgrimage - but my latest issue of the RSPB magazine has an article on ‘the peregrine’ and references Baker’s book “The Peregrine”, so I would argue that ‘peregrine’ is, these days, a nature name.

I know of a Reginald who's shortening was pronounced "Reggae" to distinguish him from other Reggies in the family. Would this work for Peregrine, if you go for it?

Peregrine is comically terrible.

I like Morwenna but I'd think the parents who'd produced such siblings had very different taste and had each been given full control over one child's name.

Morwenna is cool and witchy, Peregrine is some stuffy old retired brigadier who calls women 'fillies'.

Please give more consideration to Edmund.

Quite like Peregrine. Can't see why you shouldn't use Reggie. I don't like Perry (I think because of the pear cider). I suppose you could also follow Tolkien and abbreviate to Pippin or Pip.

Peregrine is terrible, i automatically think of peregrine falcon. Even without the bird of prey reference it is terrible. Reggie is also terrible

WHY can’t anyone give their child a normal name !!!!!!!!

Was thinking of this thread ... My son plays football with a Rafe (pronounced raf), I've always loved the name, son said today " omg Im so glad my name's not rafael like poor raffa"...

I think, though, this is touching on the difference between a diminutive and a nickname.

Nicknames are organic and very often unrelated to the name itself. For example when Priscilla turns two and has two prominent front teeth, she gets the nickname Bunny, which is unrelated to Priscilla, but sticks amongst family and close friends, but usually not teachers or employers.

Or Oliver gets cold aged 3 and says he "froz" so gets the nickname Froz.

A diminutive is a short form of a name that tends to have an established use - such as Tim for Timothy, Matt for Matthew - and it is that "established use" that is key here. Yes, some are less self-evident than others, such as Libby for Elizabeth, as opposed to Beth or Liz. But it is still a diminutive that has evolved and isn't just plucked out of thin air.

You mentioned Teddy for Edward, OP, and I see where you are coming from in that it doesn't necessarily get lifted straight from the spelling of the name, but the difference is that many generations of Edwards have been known as Ted or Teddy in a way that Peregrines just haven't been called Reggie.

So I think what you are really suggesting is a nickname that won't necessarily "stick" well, and anyone who knows his name is Peregrine will tend to shorten it to Perry in the same way that Froz will get Olly by people who know his name is Oliver.