Joey?

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Would you name Joseph and use joey as nickname? OP on just naming joey? Or Joseph/ joe?

(Older sister called Maggie)

I'd use full name Joseph and Joey as a nickname. Then he can choose if he prefers Joe when he's older.

I was going to say same as PP Joseph on birth cert Joey as nickname.

My little boy is Joseph but nickname of Jojo, Joey, Jo.

Is Maggie just Maggie? I think that would effect my opinion.

@Hopeful16 yes, I think that's bothering me too lol. He would have a nickname but her name is a nickname

Definitely Joseph, Joey for short. Joey is a bit twee for a grown man perhaps. And it’s a baby kangaroo, which adds to the baby feel.

I always associate Joey with the thick sex pest one in Friends. But others may see past that!

How about Jory? Cornish for George... Jory and Maggie doesn't seem out of place and Jory isn't a nickname.
are you honoring? If you're honoring, Joseph and Maggie are fine, but I would pick more established name - so Joseph, but I prefer Jory to both.

Is your dd just Maggie?

If yes, then Joey would be similar.

Otherwise your dd would resent not having a 'full' name.

I would put Joseph or Joe on the birth certificate rather than Joey.

A joey is a baby kangaroo. You cannot give your future adult son the legal given name of Joey. Joseph, or even Joe if the Maggie thing really bothers you, and call him Joey day-to-day.

I don’t think he’d thank you for Joey in the future. Give him options. If you don’t like Joseph then Joel or Josiah could both give you the diminutive Joey.

Joey Tribbiani 😁

But also I like it - Maggie and Joey is nice but I'd go with Maggie and Joseph. I think that goes much better and Maggie and Joey would sound quite similar with the endings. It's a great name whatever you choose!

@ourflagmeansdeath I agree Maggie /Joseph sounds better than Maggie / joey

Thank you for all the replies

Perhaps it’s just those of us pushing 50 who have a completely different association when it comes to the name Joey.

I remember it being a horrible slur

I was thinking that!

Just Googled. Crikey. I’m forty and have never heard that before. Where does it come from?

Do I even wanna know

Just so you know OP, as I assume you're much younger than me, the name Joey was a horrible term of abuse in the 70s.

Joey Deacon was a man with cerebral palsy who appeared on TV. In a far less enlightened time, kids mocked people with disabilities and it was considered normal. So "Joey" became a term of abuse, implying someone was an idiot.

Of course it was horrible and wrong, but many people in their 50s will hear the name Joey and it'll have those associations.

Joey? Not unless your name is Skippy. I'm over 55.

Joey when I was teaching (people now in their thirties) was someone who was teachers' pet, always creeping, trying to suck up to staff, would tell on classmates etc.

Joey is ok but I would use Joseph as a full name as Joey on its own is a bit blah

Jory is lovely, could that work?

It's the one derivative of my name I loathe. Only one person still calls me Joey and I'm too polite to say!