Did you choose a name that could not be shortened ?

[MsTownmouse]

I wanted a name for my son which wouldn't have lots of nicknames. So I chose Hugo - quite short & rarely heard Hugh as short for Hugo. I find myself now calling him Hugs (pronounced hughGs with a hard G ) Hugie and others too embarrassing to relate.

Other people seem quite happy to call him by his name so maybe I was the only person who immediately came up with NNs for all the other options we had thought of.

I am quite happy though. For those agonsing about names I would say that within a short time I believe most children make their name thir own.

My DD is Lily, but she gets called Lil, Lily loulou and Lilykins. Incidently, I always said I would never shorten her name and I was the first to call her Lil

We have an Adam, we never shorten it but other people sometimes call him Ad, which DH can't stand. My dad calls him Addie. I call him Sweetie or Turniphead (depends on my mood!) and DH calls him 'fuzzy buddy' or 'Signor Smoothy-buns'

(He is only 5 by the way, so not as weird as it might seem!)

I didn't take NNs into account when choosing my DDs names, they both have 1 NN which everyone calls them, and a few that are said without thinking/by drunken family members at Christmas.

From the other side though I have a name that can't be shortened and noone has ever found a shortened nn. I usd to hate that I couldn't have an obvious nn as a child.

Deliberately chose DD's name with NNs in mind. I have a name with lots of NNs and like it. We use her NN, but I always introduce her by her full name.

Yup, ds has four letters, two syllables, never heard of an abbreviation - yet one cousin calls him by the first two letters, another adds two letters. You just can't tell...

Btw, I have a four letter, one syllable name - it got lengthened when I was little to make a nickname.