Why do so many baby naming threads insist on a nickname?

[MardyBra]

It didn't happen in my day.

And why do they never seem to bear any resemblance to the longer name?

As in "What do you think of Josephine (nn Frank)?"

You'd love my4 then.

Actually scratch that - one is not nonsensical.

YANBU

I'll never understand why 'Peggy' is apparently short for Margaret.

i don't get it either, that said i gave all three dc short names just 4 letters and they all get called nicknames

I do have a nn for one of my kids but it's a logical shortening which evolved. The other one would be wierd if it was shortened.

What disturbs me the most is those threads wot say "EeeeMergency - only 276 days to go and I can find a girl's name".

AAARGh.

Is it "Bo"?

I know

and and and ffs there's a new baby in the village, Jack. Jack, so it can't be shortened said the parents. Nice one, one might think. Ho no, think on. The parents call him Jack-jack.

I've never got the Peggy thing, but it's ancient.
I have an 80 year old great aunt who is a Peggy/Margaret.
Don't know the origins though.

We went up to the wire with both kids - neither had names for at least two weeks after they were born. It was mainly because we had family objections to our preferred names. We found if you strung it out long enough, the familly were grateful for any name.

wiki.name.com/en/Peggy

My poor DD2 had to wake about 3 weeks for her name. Then we named her after my mom. [imaginative]

Oh. I reread.

I can't find a...

Chaos typo shocker!

That's interesting Mardy.

So they'd shorten Margaret to 'Meg' and then swap the 'M' for a 'P'?

Fuck me and I thought shortening someone's name was supposed to be simplistic and lazy.

I posted looking for a nickname for a baby name I've chosen, but it's because my son can't say the name (he has AS and struggles with speech sometimes) and so I was looking for a shortened easier to say version for him.

I didn't plan it, but one of my dc is named Rosie, she is NN "tate"

It went Rosie > Rose > Ro > Roo > Rooster > Rooster potato... you can work out the rest

She does get called Roo a lot too :)

I like random NN's but I don't think you can plan them, they have to happen.

We deliberately gave ds two names so that if he decided he didn't like his he could pick the other one. He thinks we are crazy. And has shorted the name we have always used. Mind you, I have given him a nickname that bares absolutely no reference to his name but does suit his personality

I call my Jack, Jacky.

I just LOL at the parents who are trying to dictate the nicknames:

"I want to use Margaret but only like Peggy", good luck trying to insist the kids at school use that one.

Nicknames should just come naturally.

Catching that is slightly different.

Oh my kids have NNs but they're 'Spike', 'Fat Pants' and 'Joosters'.

Nothing to do with their actual names.

I'm not posting about a specific thread catching - that's a perfectly valid and lovely reason. It's just I've noticed a big nn trend.

pedlar my cousins call my ds Jack Jack, they were mad on incredibles when he was born though and were 5 and 8... but its stuck

BTW Chaos, it's your turn at Words with Friends and I am going to thrash you again