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Parents to one-syllable-name kids

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PlainJane1000 · 03/04/2021 18:22

So I am curious, if you have a child whose full name is one syllable only, do you find yourself or others using nicknames that add syllables?! I know longer names always get shortened but I've also often noticed that sometimes one syllable just doesn't cut it and a name needs more!
Thoughts and experiences?

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VenusClapTrap · 03/04/2021 19:12

Yes, just Gus. Is yours?

Eggsley · 03/04/2021 19:13

DS2 has a one syllable name but we rarely call him by it, he's got loads of nicknames, all are two or more syllables.

DS1 has a two syllable name but we usually call him by a one syllable nickname.

Caspianberg · 03/04/2021 19:13

Family do definitely say it twice. Ie ‘oh well done Tim Tim’, ‘clever Tim Tim’. Makes him sound like a dog..

thingywotsit · 03/04/2021 19:14

Both my brother and I have 1 syllable names. His was defended and insisted it was kept as as is. I got a 'y' and baby added to the end. Parents still call me it now (in my 40s) and I despise it.

JudyJ · 03/04/2021 19:15

I have a 'just Gus' too! He also gets Gus Gus, Gussy and Gustopher (delighted to see I'm not the only one with that!!).

VenusClapTrap · 03/04/2021 19:18

This is turning into the Gus thread! 😄

Chocolateismakingmefat · 03/04/2021 19:20

My Fynn gets Fynnage!!

Username54789129671 · 03/04/2021 19:29

We get the eee sound added on the end of our child's name, which then doesn't make a proper name. Not by us though. We just use their name.
So for example the name
Todd
becomes
Todd ee

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 03/04/2021 19:30

I have a one syllable name and woe betide anyone daring to put a y on the end in the hearing if my mum. She would draw herself up to her full 5foot 1 and say very, very cooly “Her name is xxxx, there is NO y on the end” The exception was one friend of mine who got away with it for years.

keepingmindful · 03/04/2021 19:35

Jack:
Jacko (Brush Strokes)
Jackanory (80s children’s tv)
Jawdaw or Jackdoor (as he leaves the doors open)

PurBal · 03/04/2021 19:42

Added syllable here. Eg Ross becomes Rossy

GeorgiaGirl52 · 03/04/2021 19:54

Where we live almost all children are called by both names:

Ann Marie
Robert Lee
Hugh Fitz

mostly because they may have several close cousins who are
Ann Lee, or Robert Fitz etc.

sanityisamyth · 03/04/2021 19:56

My ex MIL deliberately chose one syllable names so they couldn't be shortened. My DS has a 3 syllable name (that is often shortened which I don't like but hey!) and a completely unrelated nickname!

SticksarelifesaysCassie · 03/04/2021 21:13

Yes!

My DD Ella went to school and somehow became Elspeth by age 10...

Superstardjs · 03/04/2021 21:17

Mine doesn't have a one syllable name. However, I just asked her and she immediately rattled off 11 different names I call her, in addition to her actual name.

SaffieSoph · 03/04/2021 21:24

Yes we’ve done this unintentionally and the longer version stuck.

Think Ralph but everyone calls him Ralphie. It just sort of happened and everyone else picked up on it too and it stuck!

Thatwaslulu · 03/04/2021 21:30

I have a Tom.

He gets Tommo, T Dog, Tombola, Tombalina Ballerina, Tommee Tippee Tumbler, TT... the list goes on.

VienneseWhirligig · 03/04/2021 21:32

@cheapskatemum does your DC get Lionel or Tony instead then? Grin

ChristinaYang10 · 03/04/2021 21:35

I have a one syllable name that is not a shortened version of a longer name and it frequently got lengthened at school to all sorts of strange things (not in a nasty way, just a nickname way). It doesn’t happen now though.

Mumof1andacat · 03/04/2021 21:40

My son has a one syllable name but we dont add extras to it. He does have a nick name which is unconnected to his name which we us at times. My husband has a 2 syllable name which was never shortened by his family but his friends me included always shorten his name to one syllable

Desiren · 03/04/2021 21:53

I have a Drew which gets lengthened to Drewbert

jessstan2 · 03/04/2021 21:54

I have a one syllable name - my real name. I always wanted a longer name that could be shortened so use to pretend I was called Victoria (Vicky), Catherine (Kate) or something.

Some people did lengthen my name but that was usually because they thought my name was a shortened version anyway.

Bah.

However, with age I have grown into my given name. I made sure my child's name was two syllables though.

Inclinedtochatter · 03/04/2021 21:58

I've got a Ross. He was Ross the Boss at his childminders, Rossle at primary school and Giuseppe at secondary school (teacher started calling him Rossini after the footballer and it evolved from there!)

cheapskatemum · 04/04/2021 08:18

@Viennesewhirligig, growing up, he got called Tony All.The.Time. He begged us to change his name to Nick. Then a change of Government & that was yesterday's news. Now he likes that there's not many (in England) with his name.

Mumoblue · 04/04/2021 08:24

My son Jack is called Jack Jack or Baby Jack quite a lot. Also Jackery or Jackadee.
I think it’s cute, and he’s only little. We’ll probably do it less when he’s older.

I have no objections to any nicknames except Jackie. ‘Jackie’ to me is an adult woman’s name, so we don’t use it.