What do we think...

[leoteddy]

Of Aurora for a girl? With Rory for short?

I like it

I hate Rory being used for girls.

I like name Aurora! very beautiful, but not Rory!!((

Not keen because I don't like vowel-heavy names (so ditto for Amelia).

It would be awful if DD turned out to have a lisp. Auwowa sounds terrible.
(Reminds me of the Romans in Life of Brian - "Welease wichard"!

to all the Aurora haters! My DD would change your mind! ( disclaimer: bit drunk !)

Love it. But then I too think of Ancient Greek and Roman names, so I also think of "dawn" and "rosy" and "new day". A lovely name for a little girl.

Exactly ! Thank you Sushi!

Aurelia perhaps? Similar and v beautiful.

Can I just clarify what the hive mind thinks about nicknames?

You can't put a nickname on a birth certificate. You have to put a longer name but can then use a nickname.

But you can't choose a nickname before a child is born.

Have I got that right?

You're choosing a child's name. Choosing a nickname too is fine. Because you're naming the child and that's potentially part of it. Chances are some natural nicknames like Bugger Lugs and Smelly Bottomed Joe will also evolve, but I cannot understand this weird attitude towards nicknames. They are a decision. I can't get excited about when that decision is made or how.

I like Aurora btw. And Rory.

Aurelia is another nice name. It has a different meaning from Aurora - but still a very positive one. It means 'golden'.

I like Aurora but am not in favour of using boy's names - and Rory IS a boy's name (it means Red King not Red Queen - the original Gaelic is gender-specific) - for girls. As others have said (a) we can't really choose nicknames - events overpower us - and (b) if you do want to try and fix a nn, what abour 'Rora'?

Why can't you choose a nickname before the child is born?! When I was pg she was the wriggler, then when wane chose Aurora she was the Rory Rorster before she was born and Rory kind of stuck!! Suits her now - she is a real tomboy !

*when we not wane!

Oh ffs call your child whatever you want.

To me nicknames evolve. If you want to choose one then fine. But don't get upset when another nickname comes crawling out of the woodwork,

?? Whatever

Choosing a nickname before the baby is born isn't saying they must only have this nickname and they WILL be known as this at all times by everybody and I will cwy and cwy and cwy if people don't listen. It's the same as choosing the long form, just a consideration of how you might refer to your child once it is here. I have a child called Mathilda for example. I have always like the abbreviation Tilda and knew when pregnant that this is the one I'd most likely use. And you know what, I did. She is 7 and I still call her Tilda. Of course other nicknames evolve. She is also Squigsy and Bugger Lugs and Euphrasie and Monkey Chops and Buglet and Chicken Legs and Minky Monkey Moo. Loved is the child of many names after all.

Choosing a nickname you might like to use isn't reductive or ridiculous. Any more so than choosing a name at all.