Antonia - is Toni inevitable?

[Rolf]

I love the name Antonia but don't like Toni. Is that a deal breaker? Is it inevitable that people will call her Toni? Or that she'd end up calling herself Toni?

I'm sure Antonia Fraser doesn't have this problem but we don't really mix in the same circles .

I'm 37 weeks with my 4th and DH and I are nowhere near finding a name that we like. I've suggested lots but he hates them all and doesn't have any alternatives. So I'm not thinking very rationally about it!

The only Antonia I know in real life is called Annie by everyone. Don't suppose anyone ever calls A S Byatt or Lady Antonia Fraser Toni, either.

I don't think it's inevitable but I agree that Toni is not good at all though, so if you're at all concerned I'd try and find something different.

Isabella?
Georgina?
Adella?
Juliana?

These feel in a similar vein to me - forgive me if I'm way off the mark.

No, it's not inevitable. She might get "Ant" instead.

The ones on your list that I like have been rejected by DH . Thanks though!

Annie is a nice abbreviation. I could definitely live with that.

My ex sil is Antonia - she is always Tonia, which is marginally better than Toni, I suppose.

My cousin is called Antonia - friends called her that, close family tend to call her 'Tonia' which just sounds like an affectionate abbreviation to my ears!

Mmm...yes Toni it will be..My hubbie is Anthony and some people call him Tony or worse Tone! I call him Ant as its nicer I think (for a man)

My absolutley fave names for girls and shortened versions(apart from my DDs) which I couldn't use as they didn';t go with surname or friends have it are:Annabel(Bel); Beatrice (Bea) and Leonie

Ooh Rolf I also love Augusta x

it's lovely

My friend's daughter is called Antonia and it is never shortened. She is 8 and has been to a few schools and it has never been shortened by her schoolfriends, either.

i know an antonio called tonio. tonia?

to be honest, I wouldn't mind being called Toni, I like it. But possibly because there was a lovely Australian girl in my class for a year or so called Toni.

There's a cousin somewhere in the depths of my family called Antonia and I've never heard her called anything else. What about Tonya as a shortened version, as in Dr Zhivago?

i know an antonia who is an antonia and an antonia or is an antonia or an annie.

sorry the ors should be ands

sorry no they shouldn't

first should be who is
second should be and is

it's late.

will be Toni,

i heard a mum today say " oh alexander look at that" and thought to msisel' she has a proper hard on about that name and i bet she doesn't like the name alex

marymungoandmidge - I love Augusta too. My top names are Clara and Thea/Theodora/Dorothea. But DH doesn't like them and they don't go very well with our surname.

I like Agatha but that may because I enjoyed Doctor Who the other night . In our baby name book it's the names from the 1870s which we both particularly like, eg Florence, Alice, Amy.

Custardo - it's the air of inevitability in your post that haunts me

I know two Antonia's and I didn't even know you culd shorten it to Toni.

I think whether you call your DD Antonia or not, if she wants it shortened when she hits her teenage years then it will be, if she doesn't then it won't. I wanted my name shortened and so it became, now I get a mixture of both.

go for florence rolf .

My DS2 is called Anthony and he is never called Tony. I think Antonia is a lovely name.

Rolf and hoxtonchick- great minds (!) - our DD is 9 months old and she's Florence ...we both loved the name because we thought it elegant and feminine, but I also love it shortened to Flo...
Also love Alice...

LOL, custardo, there was a 2 year old Alexandra with her Mum in the waiting room for my obstretician and I thought the same thing!

I went to school with a Jennifer who had to keep reminding us not to call her Jenny as her Mum didn't like it, so you could end up in that situation, Rolf!

I know 2 Antonias and an Antoinette and 2 are called Toni, and I know 4 Anthony's, the 2 adults get called Tony, the 2 children are still called by the whole name.