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!!

[WheelsOnTheBike]

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

Freya is lovely btw.

[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!

[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]

Emlyn
Iestyn
Marc
Toby
Marnie
Brooke
Seren
Cerys
Carys
Aiofe
Niamh

[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

[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.

[BikeRunSki]

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

[blushingm]

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

[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!

[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.