Ollie, Olly or Oli?

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Thinking of naming our son Oliver but as tedious as it sounds my partner and I can't decide how to shorten his name.
I wanted the name Ollie but didn't think a nickname should be his real name 'on paper' and partner agrees, hence the name Oliver.

So how would you spell it - Ollie, Olly or Oli?

I'd go for Ollie.

If you aren't going to use the shortened name on paper, why does it matter how it is spelt?

I have an Ollie. He/we spell it that way but to be honest other people don’t seem to care and spell it however they like when they write him cards etc

My Oliver became Oli simply because by the time he learned to write the full name properly there was no way I was going to introduce another "new name" to spell! Write the first three letters ....perfect!

I know Oliver who spells it Ole.

I prefer Olly.

My phone puts a red squiggly line under Oli to say it's spelt wrong. I would hate to have a child with a name or nickname that my phone tells me is spelt wrong every time I type it out.

Ollie looks right to me.

Ollie seems OK on its own to be a name oli looks abit odd and olly looks like a miss-spelling. Have you thought of Oliver alternatives that could be shortened to these names?
Olander
Olbert
Olis
Ollin
Crisol
Erol
Olivander
Conolly

We have an Olly but that’s his full name. People spell it “wrong” with an ie all the time even family.

I prefer oli

My brother is an Oliver and he spells it Ollie.
I used to spell it Olly, but obviously I take his lead on it.

My 17yr old ds is Oliver but pretty much everyone calls him “Ollie” which we chose as a spelling when he was little.

My nickname for him is Ols.

Ollie

Ollie

My ds18 is Oliver and I spelt it Ollie when I shortened it when he younger but as he got older he changed the shortened spelling to Olly.

Ollie

Ollie

The Oliver’s I know are always Oli.

@Zoflorabore same here with my 21 year old ols!

Ollie

My Oliver isn’t shortened. He has always been Oliver.

My Oliver is Oli to everyone.

They are all pretty bad tbh. It just sounds so .. wet.

I mean Oliver is a perfectly nice name of course. It's just the shortening of it that sounds so.....moist.

We have an Oliver. We use Ol, Ol Pol, Polly (no idea why), Ollie, Oli & Oly! I spose he will make his mind up when he's older how he wants his nickname spelt.