Zachary.. nickname Harry?

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As above... yes it's fine or no it's terrible..

DH and I don't agree on any names hence the stretch here!

Shockingly bad as a diminutive
I like both names but Harry isn’t the nn of Zachary

Unless you plan on pronouncing it ZacHarry with emphasis on the second and third syllable, I’m not sure how you are getting the nickname Harry from Zachary. Usual nicknames would be Zach or Zachy.

You need to rethink OP. It’s actually quite funny 😁

No it doesn’t work, are there are no names you both like?

Ridiculous. It doesn't go.

Start again if you can't agree. Putting Zachary on the birth certificate and then calling him Harry is just silly.

BTW, choose Zachary without the nickname, there are billions of Harry’s.

Eh?

Just call him Harry?

We named DS Zachary, usually shorten to Zach. I actually love Harry too and was also on our list...but never ever have I thought to link the two. Not to say you shouldn't but it's definitely very unusual.

Nickname Arry?

It’s a bit odd...

Nickname ‘Arry I cant stop laughing, I hear that in a frank butcher delivery

Maybe go back to the drawing board rather than come up with a compromise that doesn’t work?

No! Either choose Zac or Harry. Harry isn't a nickname for Zachary as you don't say the 'h.'

Love both names but that's silly.
Choose one

For those saying there are billions of Harry's... it's a popular name for a reason and to us, there is only one Harry anyway.

Ridiculous OP. Two completely different names.

Back to the drawing board.

I can feel your desperation OP! I'm open to unexpected nicknames but I feel this just doesn't work. Either Zachary/Zac or Harry, Harrison/Harry, Henry/Harry.

I think it's alright. Bit of a stretch maybe but when Peggy has been used as a diminutive for Margaret for years, I don't mind a bit of a stretch.

I think it's unlikely it'd stick though so would go back to the drawing board.

It's very tenuous.

What's the compromise, one of you likes Zachary but the other will only agree to it if he's known by Harry day to day? Seems little point to Zachary in that case.

No from me too.

If you want to call him Harry, then call him Harry - nice enough name.
or
If you want to call him Zachary, use that (and he will always get called Zac)

But don't give him one name and call him another.

That is just too much of a stretch.

I think it’s silly, I don’t understand why parents don’t just choose a name they like. I once saw on a name site someone asking if Poppy would work as a nickname for Persephone. Ridiculous. Maybe Harrison Zach/Harold Zachary or something would work as a compromise because then you have both sounds and your child will still be named Harry.

People will think his name is Zac Harry

What would be the point of that? Call him Zachary or call him Harry (used to be common nn for Henry or Harold).

Zachary nn Harry just sounds daft. I like Zachary.

Lol. They are just two different names! If you tell people it’s a shortening of Zachary they might just think you don’t know how to pronounce Z!

Lots of people have nick names or ‘known as’ names that are nothing like their real names.

So Zachary on the birth certificate and Harry day to day: no problem at all. A NN doesn’t have to be a shortening of the name.

Make Harry the middle name and he can use that? I was in my 20s before I knew that my favourite uncle’s name was not Steve, it was Edward (Steve was his middle name and he always went by it).

I feel your pain. We had no ideas for boys names and had to name twin boys. Hours spent scrolling names and both disliking them all.