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Caroline ‘Caggie’ - thoughts?

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Confusgurl · 03/01/2024 14:39

im expecting my first child a little girl and wondered what people thought to the name Caroline with the nickname ‘caggie’?

Middle name would be Mia, so Caroline ‘Caggie’ Mia. Or Caroline Mia. NOT double barrel can I add.

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RocksOn · 03/01/2024 15:09

Caroline is dreary. Caggie is borderline abusive.

Spaghettieis · 03/01/2024 15:11

Caggie is awful. Caro is the best nickname for Caroline imo.

blackfluffycat · 03/01/2024 15:12

Hate both

Confusgurl · 03/01/2024 15:12

You guys really don’t soften the blow on here 😂😂

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LakeTiticaca · 03/01/2024 15:15

Ugh no it reminds of thick sticky mud 😒

toastofthetown · 03/01/2024 15:15

If someone nicknamed their baby Caggie I’d assume they watched too much reality TV and wanted to attempt to seem posh. But as it’s just a nickname, it doesn’t really matter. Caroline is uncontroversial and she can easily ditch the Caggie if she hates it.

GerundTheBehemoth · 03/01/2024 15:20

Spirallingdownwards · 03/01/2024 14:41

Caggie was the nickname used for a Caroline in the first Made in Chelsea series.

She was a Catherine, not a Caroline. There was a Caggy-short-for-Caroline on Big Brother years ago though.

WildCherryBlossom · 03/01/2024 15:20

If you like Caroline use it. It's a beautiful, classic name.

Let nicknames evolve naturally.

ConstitutionHill · 03/01/2024 15:21

RowanMayfair · 03/01/2024 14:41

Caggie 😫 so unbelievably ugly, why would you inflict that on a lovely little girl? Sounds like aggy, claggy, baggie...not a nice sound at all.

This this!!! No.

LadyEloise1 · 03/01/2024 15:23

I love Caroline but don't like Caggie.

LenaLamont · 03/01/2024 15:26

The first series of Big Brother had a god-awful woman called Caggie in it. The word sounds revolting, it’s a horrible nickname.

Rosario99 · 03/01/2024 15:26

Caggy doesn't sound nice and too similar to Claggy.
Carrie as a nickname, yes.
Caroline is fine, Cora is lovely

PurpleChrayne · 03/01/2024 15:27

Caroline is a gorgeous name.

Caggie is disgusting, I'm sorry.

Zwicky · 03/01/2024 15:32

Caggie sounds almost exactly like cacky which is slang for shit/shitty as in “cacky pants” or “he’s cacking himself” and an unrepeatable slang word for a gay man.
Also sounds far too close to claggie. Would you like to be called claggie?
Just give your dd a nice name, like Caroline.

Confusgurl · 03/01/2024 15:34

Thanks guys, it’s been helpful to hear everyone’s views and I think I get the gist on Caggie lol!

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Topseyt123 · 03/01/2024 15:43

Caroline is fine, if slightly dated. Still a nice name though.

Caggie is just awful. Ugly and sounds like you got something stuck in your throat! Carrie or perhaps Cally would be my preference for shortening Caroline.

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 03/01/2024 15:50

I really like Callie as a shortening for Caroline

Spirallingdownwards · 03/01/2024 16:13

GerundTheBehemoth · 03/01/2024 15:20

She was a Catherine, not a Caroline. There was a Caggy-short-for-Caroline on Big Brother years ago though.

Yes, that's right. Wrong show but knew I had heard I for a Caroline.

OwlWeiwei · 03/01/2024 16:21

Caroline is okay. Caggie is hideous. So many pretty short versions of Caroline: Caro, Cara, Carrie. Cass, Cassie, Callie, Lina. Why choose claggy caggie?

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whatausername · 03/01/2024 18:24

Caggie is horrendous!

RowanMayfair · 03/01/2024 18:45

Cattenberg · 03/01/2024 15:02

Caroline (nicknamed Caggy) was also the name of a contestant in the first series of Big Brother. Yes, I know that’s going back a bit.

I really like Caroline, but I’m afraid I’m yet another person who doesn’t like Caggy.

OMG!! You've just reminded me of how my friends and I got sucked into one of those 'free' photo shoot promotions in the early 2000s and got hard selled into buying overpriced prints and the owner of the studio was Caggie!! I'd totally forgotten that!

Catinknickers · 03/01/2024 18:49

We have a lot of Carolines in my family. One was ‘Cassie’ which I rather like. She was a remarkable woman as well.

theduchessofspork · 03/01/2024 21:00

I like Callie much better

theduchessofspork · 03/01/2024 21:01

… caggy sounds like daggy…

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