lolo as a nickname for charlotte

[PearlFawn]

What are your thoughts?

Yes!

I have a lovely name. It has an unlovely but very common abbreviation. I absolutely hate being called by the abbreviated version.

A) That's not my name.

B) I didn't say you could call me that, I always introduce myself by the full name.

I do correct people every time. It gets a bit tiring though.

Stop being so presumptuous.

I did have a few NN in secondary school, I didn't love them, I tolerated them because I understood people's need to use them.

So, should someone calling Charlotte by her nice, new nickname make an "L" sound at the end or not?

No sorry I might have been misleading her best friend doesn't make the L sound at the end

So 'Lolo' is pronounced Lollol'? I think OP is having a LOL.

Your daughter will be laughed at if she tries to implement the name 'Lollol" - pure daft.

Lolo as in Lowlow is a bit daft for Charlotte

Lolo as in Lotlot without Ts is ridiculous. I can’t even think how you would comfortably say this without even taking into account that it’s nothing to do with Charlotte and I can’t think how it would be spelled.

So Loh-Loh? That's...that's not going to catch on. Her friend is either taking the piss or just being silly.

Just let the girl's mates choose her nickname if it's so important! Choosing one like this is contrived and your daughter will have the shit metaphorically ripped out of her.

Any nicknames or diminutives I've had over the years (quite rare Spanish name) have been chosen by friends. Choosing your own is just cringey.

lol lol is harder to say than charlotte and doesn't trip off the tongue so that's probabaly why it's not stuck.

Char, Charl, Charlie, Lottie etc. are more natural derivaties.

I could get next to Lolo (lowlow) but Loll Loll is overegging the diminutive too far.

My friend Caroline is known as C.

My DS is known as O.

Both given as NN by their friends.

I'm Pud. I was a fat baby and when my best friend heard my mum call me it that was that.

NN are organic.

I have a Charlotte, she chooses to go by Lottie, but is known at home as Lottie Loo, shortened to Loo. LoLo might stick, but in the end, she'll choose herself. Avoid Char!

If she wants her friends to call her a shortened version of her name she should just start referring to herself as that and use it in written form as well- sign of her messages, cards with it etc. write in on her work, on her school books, diary, etc. and it will probably become normal to use it the rather than formally announcing that it's what she wants to be called.

It’s fine if you are talking about a dog, twee and sickly if it’s a human.

So her friend calls her Lol-oh ?

Tottie!!! You are kidding ？

I kid you not. It’s German in origin I think. Like Lottie. Childhood nickname that stuck. I like it, it suits her.

I think Loh-Loh is the sound I actually meant.

I came here for this comment! My first thought too.

My name is Charlotte and I would cringe head to toe if someone called me lolo.

Everyone calls me Charl. I absolutely hate Char

Get her to google lolo Ferrari 😂

I think it’s ok, seems to have got a bunch of people extremely riled up though! If you and your child like it ignore the silly wee billies on here.

Does she identify as a Welsh man?

Do they not know what it means?

I thought you'd written Iolo, as in the man's name not Lolo. I've managed to go through life being called by my full name,.

The Gen Zs I know seem unaware of these different rules they should operate by and have the same names they've had since children. Except for one whose boyfriend inadvertently called her by a private nickname he has for her in front of some friends and she's been trying to stop them calling her it ever since.
So how do these friends of your DD who have changed their names multiple times let people know? Just a mass WhatsApp or something?
In which case, I suppose Charlotte/Lolo could do that.
Although it sounds like explaining the pronunciation might be tricky.

It means small or tiny! She’s not bothered by the slang with a different spelling, if that’s what you mean.

You can use whatever nickname you want yourself but your DC's nickname will be decided by others. Let's say DC1 was Margaret and we wanted to call her Meg and did so for the first 3 years. As soon as she went to nursery she became Maggie. At high school she became Mags. As an adult she is Margaret.