If your name is 3+ syllables

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How do feel about having a long name?

Do you go by a diminutive form of your name?

Did the length of your name influence the names you gave to your kids?

3 syllable name here and I dislike it but not because of the length. I go by a 1 syllable nickname. Didn't influence naming of DC - one has 2 and the other 3 syllables.

Mine is 3 syllables and my kids are 3/4. I love my name which was unusual at the time now more popular, didn’t deliberately go long for my kids but just had happened!

Three syllable name here and have never gone by the diminutive for it as I like it less than I like my own name. 🤭 I have an extra long surname as well. It's never bothered me and I've never have thought of it.

4 syllables, went by a shortened version from age 9 onwards. Would like to be known as the long version now but too difficult to change now for everyone who knows me.
Didn't have any influence on what I named my children

I have a 3 syllable first name and it's always shortened unless it's for something official. It sounds so trivial out loud but, but it did influence how I named my DC because I also have a 3+ syllable surname. I've always struggled to fit my name in the boxes or on the lines filling in forms for things so I gave them shorter forenames

Mine is 4 syllables. For much of my childhood I used two 2 syllable nicknames, both accepted short versions of my name (one for family and one for friends).

As an adult I just use my name.

My kids have 3 syllable (dc1) and 4 syllable (dc2) names. Dc1 uses his full name at all times. Dc2 sometimes uses her full name and sometimes a 2 syllable nickname.

Mine’s four. I wasn’t keen on it when I was younger, but like it now. I use my full name a lot, but a one-syllable version with friends and colleagues. With family it’s a bit of a mixture. I hate the two-syllable version though!

3 syllables and long. I don’t like it, but not because of the length. I have two diminutives, one for work, acquaintances, the bank and so forth, and one single syllable name for friends.

I called my oldest son a name that can’t be shortened, and almost everybody lengthens it instead.

I have medium long name - it has only 6 letters, but it's three syllables. I don't go by nickname. I'm not yet naming kids, but my list is mostly longer names - reasonably longer names and I think my future kids will have longer names since that's what I'm gravitating to.
That said, I like idea of using nicknames. But I still love full name. For example, I love Felicity with nickname Fliss - but Felicity is on my list because I love Felicity, not because I love nickname. I mean I do love nickname, but not as actual name.
If you plan to only use nickname, and it seems wrong to you to use full name, use nickname as full name. But if you love full name just use full name in conversation as often as you use nickname. After all, nicknames are often times not that set in stone, plenty of people switched nicknames when they go to phase of life less attached to parents. Besides, Louisa is actually short (compared to many many names) and if you find it troublesome to pronounce it, then it's time for searching other names.

DH and I both have 3 syllable names. He always uses the 1 syllable shortening whereas I use a mixture of my full name and the 2 syllable shortening.

Our DCs both have 3 syllable names. One tends to use a 2 syllable nickname, the other uses a single syllable nickname. Both answer to their longer name too though.

I have a 4 syllable name, its fine.
There is no obvious shortening but my family have always used the same one and never actually used my full name. If I don't introduce myself as my shortened name, people will always shorten it to different things.
Not my name but its like being called Elizabeth who was always called Beth and being called Eli, El, Liz, Liza all the time. Because I was never used to 'Liz' I don't naturally respond to it, same as 'Elizabeth'. I sort of wish they just called me 'Beth' to avoid all the faff.

I gave my children short names, and then used their actual names to refer to them.

Four syllable name, it often gets shortened to an obvious alternative, but I prefer being addressed by my whole name.

Mine is 3 syllables and I hate it. I go by a short version and gave my children 1 syllable names.

I have an unusual 3 syllable name that I hate, but not really because it's long. More because my (awful) dad chose it, for awful reasons. I use the last two syllables eg Gina from Regina.

My dh has a 1 syllable name that I really love, best boy's name ever imo.

I vowed my own kids would have short simple names, and they do: 3 letters long and 4 letters long for each kid.

It helped dd learn to write her own name in time for her 4+...!

My name is 3 syllables and quite unusual. The odd person abbreviates it now I'm an adult but I've predominantly gone by the full version and it was never abbreviated when I was a child. I like it and it doesn't feel clunky.

DH has a 3 syllable name that's always been abbreviated to 1.

When we were naming DD we made sure we were happy with the obvious abbreviations (and ruled a few names out because we didn't like the shortened version). She has a 3 syllable name and is predominantly known by a 2 syllable abbreviation and occasionally by a 1 syllable one but I'm the only person who calls her that. She's 5 now and has always introduced herself by the 2 syllable version.

My sister is Alexandria. She doesn't, and never has, answer to Alex, Lexi, Drina or any other diminutive. It's her name, her choice and IMO it's rude and disrespectful to shorten it without permission. If you introduce yourself as "long name" people should use that.

In the old days when you called your friend's mum "Mrs Richardson", nobody bothered that it was more than two syllables. It's their name.

Three syllables.
Family use shortened version. I don’t like it, I like my name!
One dc has three syllables, two have two and one has one. It wasn’t something that we really considered.

Never thought of it as a long name ? Yes I use my name and not a nickname.

I have a 4 syllable name, I like it. Sometimes I do shorten it, depends on who I'm with.

It will be largely up to the child to keep the long name or accept its abbreviation. I’ve known a Penelope since birth, now in her 50s, who even as a toddler insisted that her name was NOT Penny, I also know an Arabella and a Jessamine, young adults whose names are never shortened.

My youngest has a three-syllable name and she has always preferred its usual one-syllable version.

I have a 2 syllable name and I use the full name, there is an affectionate short version that’s used casually by close friends and family sometimes in conversation, but I’m generally known by my full name.
I consciously chose 1 and 2 syllable names for my kids that aren’t shortened as a rule and that sound lovely and not too fussy just as they are. I do love a lot of longer names but I personally would hate to be called a long frilly name that sounds a bit pretentious as a full name and doesn’t have a shortened version that I would be happy to be called as an adult.

4 syllables. It was shortened when I was at school but most people now call me by my full name. A few people including family do shorten it still. Both my kids have 2 syllable names.

Three syllable name, mostly doesn't get shortened. Never thought of it as long, but have gone for a shorter name for my child. This was partly because we have given them both of our surnames, and we didn't want the whole thing to be too long.

I have a Louisa. She gets all sorts tbh including lots of Louisa and Lou. I'm 3 syllables - NEVER shortened growing up (eg" if we'd wanted a Nicki, we would have called you Nicki, but we wanted a Nicola" comments from my parents), even with friends and all through school but weirdly as soon I was at uni I was the shortened version to everyone. So now my family - full name. My in-laws, husband and nearly all friends/work colleagues - shortened name. Can't win! But Louisa is a lovely name!

Mine is 4 syllables, I only ever go by a shortened 2 syllable version. I don't think it's the length of it that I dislike though, just not keen on it.
DD also has a 4 syllable name but known by the 2 syllable diminutive, never thought about that before! DS has 2 syllables.