Royce? Help!

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Me and my partner like Royce but the idea of it being shorted to Roy I'm not a fan on! Does anyone know. Royce and are they called roy? Or would you call someone Royce roy?

@Pedalpushers

People on here are so weird. So what if people call a kid Rolls Royce? It's hardly going to scar someone for life. You could call a kid David and someone at school would decide to call him shithead, I really don't get the obsession with what kids at school might say. A girl at my school was called Katherine and people decided it was hilarious to call her Beverley for gods sake.

I wouldn't shorten Royce as it's already one syllable. Some people might but you do have some control over nicknames - people have started off shortening my name my whole life and have always stopped after I asked them not to.

but it can leave scars though , my parents called me carmen , even though theres not a drop of spanish blood in me ,i was the only kid in the whole school with the name and the piss taking was unbeliviable , whilst they were finding it funny i was wishing id been called something else , it took me literally years to actually like and appreciate my name , you are right in that if kids are going to pick they will find anything thats very true , but why help it along with a name that makes them a really easy target , . things might have changed since the 80s regarding kids bullying over different names ,what with so many different ones about now since then , but from what my tween tells me they are still just as vicious now as then . there is a very overweight boy in her yr group and practically the whole form is amusing themselves calling him a teletubbie and all the rest .

its all very well saying you like a name but you have to think of the child who has to live with it , which is why when i wanted a different very uncommon name for my dd , we spent ages and ages picking and i made damn sure no one could take the piss out of it , trust me it does leave the scars . i still remember the bullying i got for my name all these yrs later at nearly 49

Disgusting is a terrible name for a child.

@AuntieStella

Roy is definitely the least worst nn

One of the great strengths of the MN name board is that people will say what they think of a name, unfiltered by the manners that you would employ in RL (where I'd been saying 'what an interesting name')

If not Riy, then it'll be Rolls or Roly

i think this too , id rather people just told me the truth , when i was pregnant with dd i really wanted to call her marguetite in honour of marguerite duras my fav author and a woman who had the most fascinating life and personality , i was soon put straight by everyone i spoke too lol , its a lovely name ,but the real marguerite duras was dark sultry and exotic looking , unlike dd who is quite fair and cutesie lol, as well it was pointed out it would be shortened to maggie which i hate or rita which i wasnt keen on either

Mumsnet is obsessed with the fact that "everyone" will shorten a name.
I don't know if it's a regional thing.
My children all have long names with "natural" shortenings (think Isabella, Samantha and Theodore - these are not the actual names) and they are now 19,17 and 16 and their names are just never shortened - not by friends, family, teachers etc - and never have been. They have nn's at home that are not shortenings or natural nn's based on their names.
It's not a given that it will happen.
I would not think of shortening Royce to Roy. I would be much more inclined to use Roycie if I knew a Royce and wanted to use a nn.

OP I knew a Royce and it was never shortened.

I knew a Royce at university and it wasn't shortened. Don't know if it was when he was at school. It's not like it's a long name.

Rolls or Roy.
He will be teased.

OP- I agree you didn't ask for opinions

I haven't personally heard anyone with the name. I don't necessarily think it would be shortened to Roy. Especially if you make it clear. I know of a Royson who uses Roy.

Surname as first name.
Is your surname Rolls?

Old man name.

Dont emigrate to Australia. Poor kid

I reckon people are more likely to lengthen it - to Roycie