Can a 3 syllable name resist a nickname?

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One of my favourite names for possible DD is a 3 syllable name but I don't like the obvious nickname.

Have any of you/your DCs with 3 or more syllables been able to keep the full name in regular use?!

Yes. Dd1 hates the shorter version of her name. People use it but she corrects them! She's 5.5.

My DH has a 3 syllable name and it's never shortened. I think it depends if there is an obvious nickname

You can resist, other people in their life won't.

If there's an obvious nickname, people will use it - if you really don't like the nickname, I'd avoid the name altogether. DD has a 3-syllable name but no nickname because it's an unusual name and there is no obvious way to shorten it.

Yes, it's perfectly possible.

DD1 has a 3 syllable name, so does her best friend, and three of her cousins.
One cousin has a (slightly silly) family nickname, that sometimes gets used at home, but is her full name at school, another cousin has a nickname at school (because there is another girl in the class with the same name) but not at home. The other 3 always go by their full names, and always have.

I think it depends on the name. In my experience Katherine, Elizabeth and Rebecca are more common to stay as their name rather than Jennifer and Victoria where the nickname seems to be shortened more often.

Does that make sense?

Possibly depends on what it is, I suppose.

Christopher just lends itself to Chris.

Berenice, not so obvious.

squoosh I meant resist other people shortening it.

It's not a common name but I can imagine a shortened version. I know some people will shorten any name but I suppose my question was more whether people with 3+ syllables in their name can get most other people to use the full version.

That's reassuring ski and choc!

My 3 syllable name isn't shortened. Dh's is though.

That makes me feel better - thanks guys!

One of my girls is Briony-no abbreviations so far which is what I had hoped :)

But what if she wants to shorten it herself? Will that upset you?

Please don't be one of those mothers of teens who corrects her child's friends 'oh no dear, it's Alex-an-dra, not Alex'

DH and two DSes have 3 syllable names. They are all shortened.

Haha no I wouldn't be that mum!

I'd just like to keep the full name until potential DD is old enough to either embrace a nn or say herself that it's the full name.

I only have a two syllable name but I absolutely hate it when anyone abbrevaites it! The only two people to get away with it are 2 of my oldest and closest friends.

I think it depends on the name itself and whether you particularly dislike/like one of the short versions.

DH chooses to shorten his name to one abbreviation because it is less obvious than the one he really hates.

One of our DSes has a name which has a shortening we don't like so called him a different shortening that we love, from birth.

I have a three syllable name and it has never been shortened. I've always been introduced / introduced myself as my full name and any attempts to shorten it have never stuck. I sometimes wish it was shortened but it seems a bit late now!

My dd has a 3 syllable name it very rarely gets shortened.

I think anything longer (4 syllable plus) is more likely to get shortened.

My daughters name tends to get shortened. They use just the first part or just the last part. For example cassandra and gets shortened to Cassie or Sandra. I don't mind though. My cousins daughter is called Victoria and people keep calling her Vicki. .He hates when people shorten it and he and his wife are forever correcting people

My friend's child is called William and he's only ever been William, never billy, will, bill or anything.

My son has a three-syllable name and very few people shorten it. It's Welsh and doesn't have an obvious nickname, which helps. A couple of his friends occasionally use just the first syllable when they're talking to him but it hasn't 'stuck' and I've never heard it used to refer to him in the third person.

My name is 3 syllables and I only use the first...get so annoyed when people use what the assume to be the full name as I never use it, and certainly never introduce myself to people with it. Funny though that people never seem to automatically use full boys names if they introduce with nn - Tim, mike, bill etc!

Dd's 4 syllable name is hardly ever shortened.

I have a three syllable first name and it is never shortened. Well, sometimes it is but only by those who have probs misheard in the first place. As it is not often and they are distant work colleagues I don't bother correcting.
But no, never shortened.

I have a three syllable name and as I introduce myself with the three syllable version, that's what I'm known as. I don't mind the commonplace one syllable shortening and a few friends call me by it now, but I hated it when younger and refused to answer to anything other than the full version, so it can be done.

I will call a person whatever they've intoduced themselves as, even if its five syllables!

My own name is monosyllabic and gets elongated! Sigh.

Is the name in question Evangeline?