Unshortenable names please

[questforanswers]

Does anyone know any nice but unshortenable names? People shortening lovely names bugs the crap out of me so I need something that it can't happen to!! We love Freya but no doubt it will be shortened to 'Frey' and she will be far from an old piece of material!!

[exoticfruits]

It is absolutely impossible to keep control of a name-the only person to do it is the DC-so there is no point in worrying.

[manicinsomniac]

I had friends at school/uni with many of the names mentioned and we still managed to shorten them:

Amy - Aims
Sarah - Sar (pn 'Sare')
Laura - La
Hazel - Zel
Meredith - Merry
Alice - Al

I don't know why we seem to have an instinctive need to do this to names really. Long versions are nearly always nicer imo yet I still shorten them!

[blushingm]

bikerunski - I'm Alice too! I get called Al by eveyone from dr to mil!

[BikeRunSki]

... and a Niamh who is Niamhy (does that spelling work?), prounounced Neevey anyway.

[BikeRunSki]

I'm and Alice and get Allie

Short names get lengthened- I know an Adam who is Addy, Rex who is Reggie etc.

And nicknames can come from all sorts of roots other than first names - I have very curly blonde hair, and was Popcorn, Hairbear and Fuzzy at school. DH's longstanding nn is based on his surname.

[Sirzy]

I would just use the name you like and not worry about the possibility it will be shortened in future!

Ds is Harry and I likes the fact it couldn't be shortened. Then I discovered that locally "h" is a nickname for Harry. So far I have put my foot down and inisited it's harry but know I will have less an less control over that as he gets older

[blushingm]

Emlyn
Iestyn
Marc
Toby
Marnie
Brooke
Seren
Cerys
Carys
Aiofe
Niamh

[Hulababy]

TBH even if you think you have cracked it people, often school friends, will find a way to alter their names if they can or come up with entirly different nn altogether.

I thought no one would shorten DD's name - Mollie. But they do! And they lenthen it too.

My name is Claire and tbh noone ever shortened it, but they did lengthen it.

[blushingm]

Erin
Ewan
john
Ceri
Fay
Leila

my sister is Meredith but is known to everyone including my dad as simply 'M' - like in James Bond!

[WheelsOnTheBike]

I sometimes shorten my own name to J, just to prove that everything can be shortened.

Freya is lovely btw.

[nicolamumof3]

James is very shortenable tho!! My brother is James, been Jamie, J, Jimbob, Jimmy and Jim!

[PrincessScrumpy]

I'm afraid it's unavoidable - my cousin is James but he's known as Pie to his friends (an abbreviation of his surname!) It's particularly the case with boys.

I've never heard of a Freya called Frey.

[nicolamumof3]

We are probably going for Isla, i love that it can't be shortened. Its the reason we probably won't go for our second choice of Constance as think its a beautiful name and wouldn't want it permanently shortened to Connie.

[lovesicecream]

Yeah Cory has also been called ree and curry ( which he hates!)

[exoticfruits]

It isn't possible! We tried it and he is known by friends by his surname (one that people use as a first name and he likes it)
I know an Ian known as E (not something his parents wanted!)
They will also lengthen names or do a play on a name.

[lovesicecream]

I have a Cory kids call him corz

[MrsRupertBear]

Kate
Grace
Rose
Pearl

I have a short name and it never gets lengthened. However, my DH has one too and his always gets an 'O' on the end of it.

[mollymole]

sian for a girl
sean for a boy

[telsa]

Farne is one I heard today - hard to shorten! Well, Fa, I suppose.

[PipFEH]

Oh, and a nickname could quite easily be picked out of the air too - my daughter's name is Scarlett, but she is often called Dotty...........

[Rhubarbgarden]

Marie
Hazel

[spiderlight]

I hated having an unshortenable name as a child because all my friends had shortened nicknames and I couldn't.

[LtEveDallas]

I know a Freya that gets called FayFay !

Umm, Leigh?

[ThisIsJustASagaNow]

Oh yes re short names being lengthened.

My 3 each have names you'd be hard pushed to mess about with and were carefully chosen because of it. And yet what some of their friends call them! Gawd help us I give up

[PipFEH]

Yep, one syllable names definately get lengthened! Speaking from experience as wife to Johnny (John) and mummy to Judo (Jude)!