Think we have decided on Alexandra Rose for our baby girl's name but am keen to avoid her being nicknamed 'Alex' by family.
We are happy to call her by her full name, also really like Alexa as a shortening but for me Alex just sounds too boyish and don't like the way people pronounce it 'Aliks'
Do you think we can avoid people shortening it to Alex? I don't mind pretty much any other shortening- Alexa, Zandra, Sasha etc and I like the fact it gives her a lot of freedom to choose when she is older (even if she wants to choose Alex!) but just don't want PIL/friends etc assuming they can call her Alex!
Is it inevitable??