Love Victoria but hate Vicky

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Is there anyway around to not letting a full name turn into a nickname. I absolutely adore Victoria and has always been on my top 5 yet I can't stand the nickname Vicky.

Could we possibly avoid Victoria turning into Vicky or is it bound to happen no matter what?

I know a Victoria who has been toria and Vicky but has always been Victoria as an adult-it’s not an issue.

Vic or Vix are good.

There's always Queenie! Queen Victoria's nickname.

I'm a Victoria known as Vicky. I hate Vicky. Wish I'd discovered Tor or Tory first. Though I do like Vic. My colleagues have nicknamed me; Vickler, Vikram and Victoire

Victoria is my Sunday name!

Wow didn't know my name was so marmite lol.

I was Victoria in primary school, Vix or Vic in secondary school and Vicky to family.

Doesn't bother me what you call me though, although as Victoria is the formal version I always joke that I'm only Victoria when I'm in trouble

I love the name Victoria too. It's gorgeous. I hate Vicky...
Of it had to be shortened I prefer - Vixs, Tori bit my favourite NN is Plum.

Weirdly I know two Victoria's called Plum!!

I started working in a restaurant at uni, and one girl introduced herself saying “hi I’m Victoria, but don’t call me Vicky I hate it”... the girl who was also starting with me that day then said “hi I’m Vicky”

Victoria Plum is timeless. I live Benjamin, gorgeous name but I can't stand the shoertnings so had to chose something different.

I’m victoria and most people when I meet them ask how I want it shortened, find it very weird! I end up being vicky by default, but have always been called that by family

Victoria is a great name.

Victorias Beckham, Wood, Principal, Pendleton were never known in the press by shortened versions..... although maybe their friends called them Vicky, Tori etc.

It’ll be impossible for you to control what their friends call them and what they allow themselves to be called. My aunt Margaret was Maggie at school, which my grandmother disliked but could do nothing about.

I work with a Victoria (about 40ish). She doesn’t respond to Vicky.

She’s either Victoria, Vic or Tora.

I know 4 Victorias - beautiful timeless name
1 is Victoria or Vic
2 is Tor
3 and 4 are Vicky - suits both in different ways and totally their choice (all in the 40s)

Don't choose a name that you hate the variants of as you will have no control over which version ends up getting used.

No don't both are so awful..

I know a 5yr old Victoria but they call her Rory.
I think Victoria is a lovely name

My name is Victoria.

I am mainly Vicky and sometimes Vic. My parents called me Vicky from babyhood so it stuck. Whatever you refer to her as as a baby will stick. If my parents called me Tori as a baby I'm sure that's what I'd be called today.

Nicknames stick. If I started telling people to call me Tori or Ria now I'd be laughed at and told to fuck off with it 😂

I know a 16 year old Alexander who has never been anything but Alexander. It takes perseverance, but it is possible to have a long with an obvious abbreviation without it being abbreviated.

I know a Victoria whose is known as Torzy

I always wanted to be called Victoria - Vicky. However, Vic, Vix and Toria are Ok but really it's up to the girl herself.

I have a Victoria and 95% of the time she is Victoria. She has a few friends that call her Vicky but she likes it tbh. She never refers to herself as Vicky though it’s always Victoria. Family never call her Vicky if I’ve ever abbreviated (only in the house) it used to be vic. You just need to teach her to correct people that her name is Victoria.

It's not true that whatever you call her as a baby will stick. My parents called my Vicky and as an adult I decided I didn't like it. When I started a new job I decided Vix was the shortening I was going for and now there are only 1 or 2 people who call my Vicky. At work i always correct people if they call me Vicky. I find it weird how even if I reply to an email with Victoria or Vix I sometimes get Vicky back, I think it's really rude to assume I want it shortened, or to shorten it differently than I have. I actually really like Toria or Tori too.

My sil is Victoria. NEVER Vicky. No idea how she's managed it but presumably she was firm. As an aside I hesitated over using my DS2's name for my oldest because I was worried it would get shortened to something I didn't like. Decided just to use it anyway when I was pregnant for the second time and it has never been shortened in that way so it is possible. He actually has a shortening that I would never have imagined but I was the one who started calling him that! Names are unpredictable things!

Thanks to everyone for their inputs! I strongly dislike Vicky for no reason at all so I would definitely try to keep it as just Victoria. The other nn options such as Tori, Toria don't really appeal to me, maybe Vic would be alright but still isn't my favourite. I just wish it could stay as Victoria forever without having to constantly correct people.

I know I can't control others and it's so dumb but I actually live in fear of future DD choosing to call herself Vicky

Yes if you are strict from the beginning and tell people her name is Victoria you don't want it shortened ,my cousins two children are called Victoria and William and we were told not to shorten their names and we never have. X