Have you heard of Poppy as a nickname for Sophie?

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We like the name Poppy but decided it probably suits a cute little girl but not really a grown up. Another name on our list is Sophie and the mumsnet name finder has a Poppy listed as a nickname which would be nice to have as an option.

I am not sure how you get to a Poppy from Sophie though. Has anyone heard it used before?

No I haven't I do know quite a few l

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I do know quite a few little Poppy's so by the time they grow up it will be a grown up name iykwim

My dd is Poppy, and I know a grown up Poppy so it didn't seem too cutesy for us. Never heard of it as a nickname though

If I met someone whose initial was "S" and who used the name Poppy, I'd assume that it was the usual and longstanding nn for Shirley.

Poppy would be a cute parental nickname for a Sophie. like Honey, Sweetie or Poppet but it might not work well if you want other people to call her that too. Both nice names though

Nope, 2 different (both nice) names afaik

I guess it could be one of those "Pearl is short for Margaret" types of things but i have never heard of it. Sophie is lovely, Poppy is a bit twee and I can hear it being bellowed across Waitrose in my head. "Oh Poppy darling, please put that bag of quinoa down and come choose some organic yoghurt" :o Posy is worse but I could see that more easily associated with Sophie somehow.

Haha I do like quinoa...!

Thanks for the responses, I don't think it would be a nickname. I still like Sophie as it is anyway.

Sorry, I guess it depends on what circles you mix in - If I had named any of my children Poppy (aside from the fact they are boys) the laughter and sniggering would still be happening 13 years down the line :o

I don't think Poppy has anything to do with Sophie, sorry.

Nicknames that don't obviously derive from the name usually develop naturally.

Pearl is not short for Margaret, it is one of the meanings of Margaret, so the connection is different.

Ahhh kitten you know what I mean :o

Cannot see the link between Sophie and Poppy other than they're both names.

Yes, but I would distinguish between, say, Pearl and Daisy, which relate to the meaning of the name, and Peggy which has some complicated linguistic explanation. Like Ned for Edward and Bill for William.

OP, call her what you want. Doesn't really matter if it's what "people" do.

Having said that, I never understood this MN thing of "deciding" on nicknames before the baby is even born.

I agree with Kitten, nicknames develop naturally - in my family, most nicknames have absolutely nothing to do with the person's first name (there's a lot of Binky/Mits/Bun/Pod type names, so I expect we all sound like we have dogs' names though )

Soontobeslender, we want our child to fit in with any circle he/she chooses so this was one of our concerns. We couldn't see a prime minister Poppy even though we like it for a little girl.

I couldn't see the link to Sophie either, just wondered if I was missing something obvious.

Can totally see your reservations about Poppy. Personally think its dreadful not the name of an adult woman (fine on curly haired toddler but that is relatively short stage). Why not call her Sophie Poppy its ok as a middle name IMO

I know Sophies, and Poppies, but no-one who is both.

Agree with Kitten too, nicknames have to develop organically. We've just chosen an old quite granny-sounding "grown up" name for our new DD, so the family has developed a cutesy baby-sounding nickname until I guess she grows into her grown up name...but we didn't decide that before she was born, it can't be forced.

Just imagine yourself explaining to all and sundry for the next 18 years "her name is Sophie but we call her Poppy" and rude direct people saying "why didn't you just call her Poppy then" and see how you feel!

Nope, although I think a nickname is any name some one calls you not necessarily a shortened version of their name iyswim

We tried to do the same OP, pick names that we thought could carry them through life and allow them to be anything they wanted. Not that a name should stop you doing that but you know what I mean. :)

Anyway, we moved house and now find that they have the same names as local roundabouts!! :o

Poppy isn't short for Sophie.

Is Pearl a nn for Margaret/ - I thought it was Peggy/Maggie?

Queenie is a nn for Elizabeth

Pearl is a traditional NN for Margaret. It's the meaning!

I've never heard Poppy as a NN for Sophie.

Thanks Twirly. And I see someone else said it above and I didn't read thoroughly

No, haven't heard of Poppy being short for Sophie.

Poppaea?

Good idea to go with Sophie Poppy.

We tried to do the same OP, pick names that we thought could carry them through life and allow them to be anything they wanted. Not that a name should stop you doing that but you know what I mean.

Anyway, we moved house and now find that they have the same names as local roundabouts!!

Seriously the best post I have read all week.

thanks Donkeys - I'd give you the names but it would seriously tell everyone where I lived as one of them is easily identifiable for local reasons :)