Nickname for Imogen

[RunningOnHope]

I suggested Imogen for a girl the other day and DP said with a smile "we could call her Midge for short" - and I genuinely love it!

Not sure if just mad baby brain though...?!

Immie.
Idgy.
Geni.
Mimi

How is everyone pronouncing Midge

Like Midge Ure- 80s popstar who used it as a phonetic reversal for Jim

Or like the mosquito with an emphasis on the e?

Not that it matters I'm just interested.

As for the obsession with shortenings/NN this is a baby name section. Of course people chat on here about NN and names in a way they wouldn't in real life.

I once read a book with a Midge whose full name was Margaret. I don't see why it couldn't be short for Imogen though.

The mosquito is pronounced the same as Midge Ure. ‘Midgie’ pronunciation is just people being cute.

I grew up being called Midge as a nickname by the bullies at my school because I was so short. I didn't care, I've always liked being short so the joke was on them, but it has negative connotations for me 😞

I have an imogen and some of her friends call her Immie which she's not keen on, she prefers Immo, but some of these alternatives are great!

I would just call her by her name but that's just me. I didn't opt in for the cutesy thing most people seem to like and gave both children short names which they get called in full. Seems pointless to pick a nice name then call them by (sometimes tidiculous) adaption of it

So was Midge Ure's real name Jim?

Immy is so twee though

Gen would be preferable but still not great

Imy
Imo
Midge
Mog
All nicknames our Imogen has been called

My daughter is Imogen.
She's 27 now and went through a patch at school when she was, I suppose, about 8-13 of people calling her Immie.
I didn't mind, was entirely resigned to it but it didn't stick, she is totally Imogen now.
Immie, to my mind has a bit of a pinched, purse lipped sound to it, whereas Imogen has a rounded, plump cadence.
But I'm not a fan of "y" and "ie" ending names.
OP, I think "Midge" is lovely, actually. Go for Imogen, as a previous poster said, whose daughter was also called Imogen, it's a beautiful name, not too many of them, but classic and recognised.

I know an Imogen, mid-20s, who is pretty much exclusively Midge as far as I know. I wouldn’t have thought I liked it before I met her but it really grew on me!

James.

@RobertSalamander really? Well every day is a school day.

If you're in Scotland, where there are plenty of them, the insects are usually called midgies - in my experience anyway.

As an aside, I once saw the name spelled Imogene and thought it was
im-og-en-ey sort of to rhyme with mahogany IYSWIM

I met a 90-something Imogen known as Moggie since schooldays - presumably nickname given by schoolfriends rather than parents!

In the Judy Blume book Iggie's House the "Iggie" in question was Imogen.