Just Dottie?

[ComfortHer]

Thoughts?

I know a Dottie, not keen to be honest sorry

For a baby that will one day be an actual adult?

No.

It's a lovely nickname for a dorothy /dorothea
or at push something like Dora, Theadora or Clothilda or Odette

I'd feel a bit sorry for a professional 'dottie'

I dont particularly like it, especially seeing as they might get spotty dottie when they get a spot

No. It's fine when she is under 7. Just use it as a nn

I don't like it, sorry.

I know someone with a Dotty and while it's cute as a nickname I think there should be a full name on the BC - I would assume Dorothy. I have not actually asked friend "So is it short for anything?" as I'm worried it might sound rude!

Peridot (Dottie).

I wouldn't like to be just Dottie.

Dottie is like Dippie or Daftie. You can't do that to somebody.

Love it as a pet name. Not keen on Dorothy/Dorothea but Dora nn Dottie is nice?

Being dotty means someone's crazy or absent minded. Not exactly a good thing. The name sounds just as daft IMO

No.

No

It's not nice even as a nickname.

I really think you need a full name. It's so cutesy. But then that's the trend for girls' names now so I suppose it'll be normal in 20-30 years for adults to be called Evie and Lexi and Millie.

No. Twee.

Love Dottie/Dotty as a nickname for Dorothy, but I think it would be unfair to give it as just a given name someone who might want to be a doctor or a lawyer one day.

Connotations around names are changing, but currently I would still exactly someone with a childish nickname to have a 'proper name'

I also wouldn't like to be called Dottie, especially not at work.

Fine for a child not for an adult

No

Do this test......

'All rise for Judge Dottie Maynard....' 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

' this is your captain Dottie Wright speaking.....' 🙈🙈🙈

No

Dotty means crazy or mad. So no, I would cringe at Dottie.

Sorry. Don't like it at all.

No.

There are so many words that rhyme that I suspect would get used in school teasing - spotty, potty, grotty, snotty....

Caipirin you are so, so correct!

Writing as someone whose first name is Dorothy.... ComfortHer, think seriously about Dorothea. A Dorothea can be "Dottie" when she is little (until she is 4 or so), and then (before she is teased) it can be shortened to "Thea".

I emigrated as a child from the NL to Australia. Dorothy is a normal name in the NL and it is shortened to Dortje.

My Dutch nickname (Dortje) was considered unacceptable by the Australian primary school I attended. My teacher told me that Australian Dorothy's are always called "Dot".

This was swiftly changed to "Snot" and "Snottie" in the playground. The teachers didn't care and I have a strong, unpleasant childhood memory of the headmaster mocking me, calling me "Doffery" (which I still don't understand, but am sure it wasn't a compliment).

When I started university it was a relief to get away from this and introduce myself as "Dorothy".

Even now, in my 40s (Australian) people can't resist. It has changed to mild teasing ... "Oh, where are your red shoes?" (from Wizard of Oz). "Oh Dot and the Kangaroo!" (some stupid Australian book that I have never read). "Dorothy the Dinosaur!" (The Wiggles).

Dorothea is easier.