To think "Leo" isn't necessarily short for anything else?

[Caff2]

just that...

[Thisvehicleisreversing]

I have a Zach full name Zachary.

No one has ever asked me if it's short for anything. There's a Zack, and a Zac at his school which are stand alone names.

I thought Zach needed a full name really hence Zachary.


I also have a cousin who's just plain Steve.

[limitedperiodonly]

one person working there actually believes that Mickolas is his real, full name

SarahandFuck A boy at school called Barry told a girl in my class that his name was short for Barence. She told me and I said he was winding her up.

She insisted quite angrily that he was telling the truth and I didn't know what I was talking about.

As I was saying 'No, no, he's taking the piss. He's always doing it,' 'Barence' looked at me behind her back, raised his eyebrows and smirked.

Soppy cow.

[thebody]

I like Leo and I am in full favour of calling your kid what the hell you like.

[SarahAndFuck]

limited Barry is a name just crying out to be a shortened form of something else

Probably not 'Barence' though, because that's a terrible made up name.

[MrsKoala]

I thought Barry was from Barrington?

[zebralegs]

I have an 8 week old Leo - YANBU! I've already been asked what it's short for by a school-gate mum and she seemed a bit surprised when I said 'nothing', but not in a nasty or judgmental way. Tbh I can see why people think it's a shortened form when they don't know about its popey history etc... I don't think it really matters all too much. Lovely name either way (IMO!)

LOL at Barence.

[badtime]

Barry can be Barrington, Bartholomew or Finbar (probably others), but on its own is an Anglicisation of various Celtic names.

I have a relative called Gary, real name Garfield! (long before the cartoon cat)

[WandaDoff]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_(name)

Barry is short for lots of names but not Barrence as far as I can tell

I've read somewhere that Barack Obama was known as Barry when he was younger.

[limitedperiodonly]

My Barry was almost certainly a stand-alone Barry. He was trying to claim poshness like Clarence. Not seriously though - he was just taking the piss.

It's a name that's definitely gone the way of Trevor and Brian.

[Thisvehicleisreversing]

I call my friend Barry, Barold. Like Harold

[zirca]

All the Leo's I know, aren't short for anything. It is a full word on its own, not just a name.

[UniS]

I know a few Leo's.
Short for James
short for Loenie
Short for Leonadis.