Full name for Bobbie?

[pigglepot]

I really love the girls name Bobbie but worry it's a bit too much of a nickname to give as a full name (although is it really much different to names like Annie and Katie which both started out as nicknames?!)

If we wanted a longer name are there any others apart from the obvious Roberta and the less obvious Barbara(!) and Robyn?

[diddlediddle]

Bobbina

[pigglepot]

@PerspicaciousGreen haha I know I'm the same! I keep hoping there's just something I've not considered but I don't think it exists. Maybe choosing any B name like someone has suggested would work?

[notalwaysalondoner]

Roberta - based on The Railway Children.

If you're really not keen on that, I'd probably just pick any name beginning with a B...? I've also heard this for Barbara, Elizabeth, Robin/Robyn/Robina, Bonita... but if you're not going for the standard Roberta, I don't think it matters too much.

[PerspicaciousGreen]

I keep coming back to this thread every time someone posts, hoping vainly that it'll be some amazing new full name for Bobbie that I'll call madly in love with. Probably be a boy now....

[pigglepot]

I don't know the Strike novels but thanks!

Thanks for everyone's comments. Still undecided if we will use it or not but I still love it!

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Robyn with Bobbie is really nice.

I wouldn’t use Bobbie by itself.

[mogtheexcellent]

Robin in the Strike novels uses Bobbie when undercover in one of the books. I prefer the spelling as well.

[Cissyandflora]

Bobinder

[ILoveStickers]

The Bobbie I know is Rosemary, randomly.

I love Robyn for Bobbie though, really nice.

[Ifixfastjets]

Boy In my dd class is just Bobbie.
I always feel a bit sorry for him when i see that spelling. It just looks like it should be for a girl.
I knew a gemma many years ago. She was gem-Bob.
I think you could have any "official" name you want and use Bobbie as a pet name.

[MirandaBlu]

How about Robinette? It's Joe Biden's middle name, so very topical.

You could probably get away with anything with a "rob" or "rab" sound - Arabella? Mirabelle?

[EmbarrassingMama]

Ribena?

[mossmarie]

i've seen girls named bobbie actually named bobbie-anne or bobbie-jo for their full first name, and usually just go by bobbie. dont know if this is common though.

[PerspicaciousGreen]

I'm another one in a Jenny/Jennifer situation and I'm so grateful my Jennifer equivalent is on my birth certificate. I've loved having the option to have the full, formal name or to go for "Call me Jenny" depending on who I'm talking to.

My family is nickname-heavy and will nickname anything, whereas my husband has never been called anything other than his (extremely nicknameable!) full first name. My mother has a Clare-type first name and still had a nickname at school. If people want a nickname, one will be found. If people don't want a nickname, they can assert their desire to be called their full name. I mean, Elizabeth has a billion nicknames but she could still ask to be called Elizabeth. It's one of the reasons I don't have a lot of time for "But bullies will call them X!" Bullies will ALWAYS find something horrible to call someone. No name is bully-proof! But friends will always find something nice to call someone. No name is friend-proof either!

I adore Bobbie for a girl, and I'm really toying with it for this pregnancy if it's a girl, but I'm just not totally sold on Roberta and DH isn't keen on Robin. I think we'll probably end up going for something else, sadly, but it'll always be my might-have-been name.

[partyatthepalace]

Bobbie is really cute but I would NOT use it as a full name - that might really piss your daughter off if she doesn’t happen to want a typically boys nn as a full name.

Elizabeth is a nice option if you don’t like Roberta or Robin - I know one with nn Bobbi - but I love Robin personality. Have heard Robina too.

[Traypole]

[quote pigglepot]@HoldontoOneMoreDay I think my only worry would be if the sort of people who are in power positions (ie middle aged white men) would make assumptions about her based on her name. But (a) I hope there will be far fewer middle aged white men who might hold those sorts of views in power when she is older and (b) fewer attitudes like that in general...[/quote]
They'll be called Alfie and Zephyr and Wilfred. I don't think Bobbie will raise too many eyebrows.

[Traypole]

Using anything other than Robyn/Robin or Roberta would be very contrived.

I'm now thinking of Bobbie's 'Daddy, my daddy!' scene. Love that film. (Although think it's weird that the actress who played Phyllis was actually 20 at the time and Jennie Agutter was only 18.)

[SavannahLands]

Who said that Claire cannot be shortened? We have a Claire in the Family, and she regularly gets called Bear, or Carebear!

I also know of a Georgina, who hates the Name, and uses her Middle name instead. She grew up being called Gina, until some vulgar clown at School regularly added a Va before it at every opportunity, causing her much upset and embarasment.
Thank goodness her middle name is short and popular, and actually suits her better. If you are unsure about a name for a child, giving a simple popular middle name can cause a lot less embarrassment and upset later on in life than the First name did.

I quite like Robena, I once nursed a sweet old lady called Robena Rose, which would easily convert into a Nickname of Bobbie.

[HoldontoOneMoreDay]

[quote pigglepot]@HoldontoOneMoreDay I think my only worry would be if the sort of people who are in power positions (ie middle aged white men) would make assumptions about her based on her name. But (a) I hope there will be far fewer middle aged white men who might hold those sorts of views in power when she is older and (b) fewer attitudes like that in general...[/quote]
But by the time your dd is working, the middle age white men will all be called Kyle and Brooklyn...

[Cardboardeaux]

@mpsw

I'd go for Catherine/Kate

Loads of people will understand!

I was going to suggest this! Although strictly it should be Kate short for Bob

[pigglepot]

I suggested Robyn as a full name for Bobbie to my DH and he absolutely loves it! He thinks it's really cute and cool. So I'm going to try to let it grow on me so that she could have a long name too perhaps...

[pigglepot]

@HoldontoOneMoreDay I think my only worry would be if the sort of people who are in power positions (ie middle aged white men) would make assumptions about her based on her name. But (a) I hope there will be far fewer middle aged white men who might hold those sorts of views in power when she is older and (b) fewer attitudes like that in general...

[pigglepot]

@RoseAndRose yeah Margaret is fantastic for nicknames. Meg and Maggie are both absolutely lovely in particular! Margaret itself still feels a bit old fashioned to me though somehow

[pigglepot]

@TatianaBis i do like Beatrice (and especially like Bea) but I'm not sure I love it. Feels a bit uptight somehow?!

[RoseAndRose]

Yes, that's weird, because Polly is traditionally a nn for Mary!

And Margaret must be one of the names with the most nn potential ever: Margot, Maggie, Mags, Meg, Meggie, Megan, Marjorie, Margery, Marge, Margie, Maisie, Madge, Daisy, Pearl, Rita, Mairead, Gretchen, Greta, Peggy, Peg, Pegotty