Variations of John

[geraniumsandsunshine]

So, if you were going to call your baby John, would you call him Johnny, Johnnie, Jonny if he has a nickname?

Juanito?

I don't think it needs a nickname but if I was going to, it would be Jack

Jon

Jonty

My husband is John.
My mother in law sometimes calls him Jonathan.
He is not Jonathan. Birth certificate is John.
Weird in that half of the family 🤣

Sean

Jack or Ian

John Boy

Johnny.

Jonny and Johnnie look too cutsie. Johnny Cash would have curled his lip at such babyish spellings.

Jonty, although I think that's technically short for Jonathan rather than a nn for John.

I'd say John doesn't have a nickname but Jonathan does. I really wanted to call one of my sons Jonathan but having dated about 10 of them over the years, my husband said no! 😁

I'd probably go for Jonathan, and then call him Jon/Jonny/Johnnie/Jonty. I'm not sure that there are any NN for John, other than Jack - though John is a nice name in its own right, and deserves to make a comeback.

Jean.

Jonjo

Ifan?

If you don’t like the name as it is, use something else. 🤷 Most children end up with the nickname used by their peer group not their parents so you might find that he doesn’t answer to the nn you choose.

John is John but sometimes Johnny in my book.

Ian is a Scottish version of John if you prefer that I like John its a strong, traditional, unpretentious name.

Jack is a name in its own right these days, but it was originally and traditionally a diminutive of John.

Ok, thank you. It was more for spelling as I think his siblings will not just call him John!

John really does not need a nickname

Johnny probably, if I wanted one.

John is a great name.

John, or possibly Johnny for nickname. Jonty is horribly prim IMO.

I think Johnny is cute for a baby/little boy, with John on the birth certificate. Even though it doesn’t ‘need’ a nickname, it’s still nice. I think John/Johnny is so underused, it’s a really nice name.

I’ve read in books (non fiction) of Johns called Johno or Johnno

We use Jack.

Johnjo. I guess that usually short for John Joseph but whatever