Alex or Xander ?

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Which do you prefer as a shortening for Alexander?
the name is so long that I think it is inevitable that it will be shortened. My husband prefers Alex but I am leaning towards Xander.

In Scotland he could be Sandy or Eck.

Alex, Xander sounds a bit poncy.

Alex

I like Xander. My DS goes by both, depending on whether he's with family or friends, as we already have an Alex in the family

Alec. Which might be cheating but meh.

Alex.

Alex. But rename your Alexa app!

Lexy. Little lex, lilttle
lexy baby, lexyloo, my lovely little lexy

or maybe that was just me 😃

Sacha is a great nn for Alexander

Our Alexander is called Xander!

I prefer Al or Sandy but Alex is also nice.

Xander feels very "now".

Xander. Love the name! I have an Alexander who for now is Xander. The beauty of having a longer name that you can shorten means that they can choose when they get older whether they want to be known as Alexander, Alex or Xander etc...

My son is Sacha that is a nn fir Alexander but Xander is fab

I prefer Alex but I'm a bit old fashioned.

I prefer Alex, though my favourite diminutive is Sacha/Sasha.

We have an Alexander. He was Sandy as a baby, but is now Alex or Ali. I like Xandy/Xander, but dh doesn’t.

Alex. Xander makes you look a bit ridiculous

Alex

Alex or Xander. I like both. Big Scotland rugby fan though!

I agree with Sandy in Scotland too.

Sasha to be is a dog name.

I guess it depends on your demographic Xan and Xander would be very normal here Alex would be ok too

Xander. Alex is very popular.

Nothing ridiculous about Xander!! What an odd comment. I think it’s lovely.

Love classic/timeless Alexander - great choice.

But it's definitely Xander or even Xan/Xand for me for the diminutive. Too many Alex's about and speaking as someone at school in the 80's/90's many of them were girls too which might get confusing (may not be a problem these days though, as younger ones seem to go by "Lexi" instead now?)

imho, because you asked, and this is nothing to do with any real human beings:

I really dislike Xander. It's "obviously" not nice.
Al, Alex, Andy, so many other NNs I'm fine with. Even Sasha & Alec at a stretch.

Xander, it's lovely. There are two in my son's nursery and I know another in primary, so definitely common around here!