Can I have an Amelia, NN Amy?

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Is it too far or a stretch, I like NNs to be more of a shortening, instead of something like Milly/Millie, where it's an actual nickname.

Thanks!

Don't be so greedy

Seriously though nickname should develop organically.

Pick the name you prefer and a NN will develop. Don't be too contrived about it.

Amy in Little Women was just Amy, definitely.

DD has an Amelia in her class who is always known as Amy. Perfectly OK. Even though my DD is also Amy!

We deliberately chose short names for our DC that couldn't be shortened - but then they just ended up with longer nicknames instead -but I still like the fact that the names they are called in "official" things are also the names they are normally called.

Amelia NN Amy is absolutely fine. I like it.

I know more than one Amy -short-for-Amelia. It's lovely.

Amy is an acceptable NN for Amelia. My NN is Mealy and it isn't much shorter/easier

This is weird...

I'm Amy on my BC but my mum has always called me Amelia , she picked it up from the bloody goose from Aristocats and has never stopped. It's since evolved into Meelie, which she actually writes in birthday and Christmas cards to me

So I'm an Amy who is always lengthened to Amelia when it isn't even my name

I know a mum who shortens her Amelia's name to Ams when she's addressing her. It's not a nickname, she is known by everyone as Amelia, it's just a shortening for ease, if needed. I'm an Emma, always Emma, but often get Em just for ease from certain people.
So I know what you are saying when you say you are looking for a shortening, rather than a nickname.

Saying that though, DS is William and I always assumed we'd use Will, but no, never, we always use his full name. Although I have heard his nursery key worker call him Will. Which is fine.

"it's just a shortening for ease, if needed".

That's the definition of a nickname, surely?!

Okay, an occasional nickname, as opposed to a permanent one.

Some people go by thier nickname, are introduced as it etc, and rarely use thier full name. Others just get shortened when someone can't be bothered saying thier full name.

Amelia on Grey's Anatomy was nicknamed Amy. A bit of a stretch but could work if you love both names.

I only thought of it as a nickname because of Amelia Pond . IIRC Amelia went from no 15 or something on the mist popular names to no 1 in the year after she appeared, so not sure if its actually a nickname or its something invented for Doctor Who that is now an established shortening. Amy in Little Women was Amy. Either way, I like both. Name her what you like.

Amy is fine as a short form of Amelia. The longer name for the birth certificate and for most of the time.