Shortening of Meredith

[Bojangles33]

I really like the name Meredith but HATE Merry. Is this just going to cause me rage if I go with it because I'll end up correcting people all the time? Would you automatically shorten it to Merry?

Edith? Edie?

Seems little point in calling DD Meredith if it's never going to be used, especially as you really like it OP. How about Meriel as an alternative?

My friend Meredith is just Meredith. Never heard anyone shorten it. She’s 34.

It'll definitely get shortened to Merry.

Yes I can see her friends doing this at primary school.

As long as you're not shortening it to Merry then your family probably won't, so what's the problem. Maybe her friends will call her Merry, but I doubt you'll be hanging out with them much anyway.

Also I've only met one Meredith but I never heard anyone call her Merry.

Yes my thoughts were that even if we never shorten it at home it will inevitably happen at school and then drive me mad...

I’ve got a Merry

Love this name, it's on my wishlist. Agree that Edie is an easy nickname if you don't like Merry.

I have a Meredith. We have never shortened it, in the last 6 months her school friends have started calling her Merry. It doesn’t bother me because I rarely have to hear it! Does make me look twice if they do it in the playground though, and it’s certainly not catching on fast.

I love her name, if you don’t shorten it, it’s highly unlikely anyone else will.

I really like Edie and Edith so perhaps i could encourage those if people insist on shortening it!

I would automatically call her Merry unless she told me not to and suggested a preferred option.

it will inevitably happen at school and then drive me mad...

Why would it? My family always use my full name even though I use the common shortening and so does everyone outside my family. I don't think it ever bothered them, since they only really talk about me to each other 99% of the time. On the few occasions they interact with my friends, they don't exactly spend the whole time talking about me and mentioning my name

Depends if it was a boy or a girl?

The one I know occasionally gets Mere, it’s never been shortened to anything else.

Call her Edith if you really like it .

I like Mere as a nn. It's cool

In Greys Anatomy Meredith is shortened to Mere

It won't necessarily be shortened at school. My son's name can be shortened to a good few nicknames but whenever anyone has ever shortened it, my son has told them that's not his name and to call him his full name and he is only 4 and corrects school friends so they all call him his full name.

I have a Meredith, she has never been anything other than Meredith.

My Meredith is also called Merry. Her teachers stick to Meredith but her friends use both versions.

Both that I know are Mer/Mere when shortened, otherwise the full name is used.

You don’t have to shorten it. I have a Thomas he’s always been Thomas never tom or tommy. He shouts at people that call him Tom

Mere or Deth if you watch Grey’s anatomy

Mere is what I would shorten that name to