Longer name for Lovey

[erint09]

We LOVE the name Lovey for a little girl, but obviously for more professional circumstances/later life it wouldn't be appropriate. Any ideas for what Lovey could be a nickname for?

Lovey is just like saying mate or hun. You don’t need to make it part of her name.

Lovisa could work though if you’re dead set. It’s the Northern European version of Louisa.

Give her a normal name and call her lovey like others use sweetie darling etc.

Lovella? I'm sure this is a name I have heard somewhere....

Lovey doesn’t have to be linked to a name

Then give her an actual name. Why does it have to be related to a nickname?

That’s brilliant 😂

Love-a-Duck

It's a much used term of endearment. In some places every second shop assistant calls you "lovey".

Gifty is a very traditional West African name, whoever mentioned that one. I’ve worked with several.

Lovey is a term of endearment.

Lovell or Lovel used to be a boys’ name but could be used for a girl.

If you already have a Larissa then names with L and or V sounds would work for a lovey and have same vibe as Larissa

Lavinia
Viola
Violet
Valentina
Olivia (common nn is Livvy so lovey is v close)
Valerie

I’ve known 2 women called Gifty, it’s a traditional name in some countries.

Lovey is honestly giving me the boak.

Just name your child something appropriate and call her whatever you like at home. Often the nicknames come out of left field.

My kids get called Chips, Bear, Bearface, Fishhead, Skittle, and a thousand other random things. Nicknames are supposed to come naturally.

Lovey is a haaaaaard no.

I call both my adult kids, sweetheart or darling, but they do actually have proper names. Just find a name, a proper name, that you like and use whatever endearment you fancy at home.

Loveday I suppose?
I know one in her 40s and she loves it

but both my kids are called Luvvy all the time.

Clovey

Clovette

So your children will be Lala and Lovey?
😵‍💫 rather you than me….

also lovey conjures Christopher biggins and the-a-tre types for me… I don’t lovey it (pardon the pun)

that said Larissa is a really nice name.

Lovella perhaps?

I think it was more used towards the end of the 19th century but rare even then. It has the advantage that if you go off Lovey (quite likely lets face it!) you can use Ella

Clover might work

Clovette sounds like something you get from a pharmacy.

Lovey doesn't need to be short for anything.
Surely everyone calls their kid Lovey at one time or another.
Just pick one somewhere between Amy and Zoe. There's plenty to choose from.

Then just call her Lovey as a nickname and chose another name. You need to consider them as an adult!

I'm with the others, terms of endearment don't need to be their legal name or a nickname of their legal name. My daughter-in-law's mom's name is often used as a term of endearment. We've known them since DIL was a little girl and I still feel awkward using her Mom's name.

Crikey. Just when you think you've heard it all!
We called our DD Sweet Pea - but quite clearly that wasn't on her birth certificate!
As others have said, call her what you like, but for the sake of your child, please give her a name that she isn't going to be bullied with at school.

Olivia... as a nickname Lovey isn't far of Livvie and the name has an 'o'.

Lavinia is nice enough too.

Anything on the nose like Loveday is pretty cringe though.