Xanthe (nicknames?)

[LedaOfSparta]

My actual baby is called Xanthe and day to day it is such a 'big' name for her. I love it but she really needs to grow into it I think!

I'm also kind of bored of having to repeat it 27 times to old dears in supermarkets.

I appreciate that all of this is my own fault but would anything spring to mind as a baby nickname? Her middle name won't work as it's a family name on my husbands side which I don't love.

Thea?

Xan? I also knew a Xan-Xan, used as a nick name.

I went to school with a Xanthe and we all called her Xanth.

The

Xan or Thea would be lovely

My friend got called Xanth.

She gets Xanthlets or Pig from her brothers but they're not really for public use!

Annie?

I like thea...

I like Annie, that could work. I dont really like Thea though.

How about Zee? Its kind of cool and fun.
I actually have no idea how her name is pronounced is it with a z sound?

Thee-thee (like FIFA but with a 'th')?

Fifi NOT FIFA!,

Another one for wanting to know how DD's name is pronounced. (Sorry, I'm American)

Um I would just leave it as Xanthe! A lot of the nicknames mentioned above are longer and just as grown up as Xanthe. Its a lovely name, I don't see the need to change it.

Pronounced 'Zan-thee'.

Zanth as an abbreviation? (Obviously spelt with an X.)

I liked the Annie suggestion too.

Blondie

Properly it's Ksan-thee as it's Greek but Zan-thee is the usual pronunciation.

I do love the name and knew when we chose it it would get a few ???? but I can 'see' it on a teenager or and adult. It's just that on a fat dimpled baby it still seems odd (and she's 8m old).

dd2 is Xanthe, she gets called Xanth occasionally but it makes me twitch. In the midst of baby talk we used to call her Xanthe-Zooster and the Zooster bit stuck. She's 6 now and used to have problems pronouncing it (lots of people thought she was called Nancy) and got frustrated at times but now it's fine.