Theodore nickname?

[Ladyw13]

Due with our second boy and we love the name Theodore, but Theo has gotten quite popular and not keen on Ted/Teddy. The nickname Orry came to me and I think I love it?! It means “God’s peace”. What do you think about Orry as a nn? Or do you think Ori is a better spelling? First son is Alexander also with an uncommon nickname he goes by.

Orry is a ridiculous nickname for Theodore. It doesn't sound nice when you say it (well, not when I say it, I am Scottish so say it with the rolled Rs).
I agree with others, pick a different name that you like the common nicknames for.

Surely what you call him as a nickname in family is up to you and impacts no-one else. Mine were called moo, pupster and loola!

It’s mad. “I don’t want my child to be named any of the above but I want him to be this name that is only vaguely connected to part of the sound of a name I don’t want”

If the OP likes “Orry” then he could be called Orville or Orson for all it matters.

These threads are always made up nicknames as well. I don’t understand trying to squeeze a nickname out of names for an unborn child.

Odor?

Just kidding 😁 it’s a pretty hard one to shorted other than Theo! Orry isn’t for me really, just autocorrects in my mind to Sorry. I love Theodore as a full name!

One of my kids goes exclusively by an uncommon shortening, agree with PP that you need to introduce them with the shortening from the very moment you first say their name. Like to the midwife the second they’re born 😁 DS’ birth announcement was ‘Short name (long name) weight date time’ etc. He’s 10 now and lots of people don’t even know he has a long name.

MNetters love to say ‘why did you even give him a long name then?’ but the short version doesn’t feel like a full name and full name gives multiple other options.

Well a nickname can be anything you like.
Do you mean a diminutive? If so Ted or Teddy is the usual I think.

Orry, as you mentioned already @Ladyw13 , means "God's Peace" and it makes sense that it could be a nn of Theodore .
Reading up on it I see it's a name that is common in the Isle of Man, apparently not in use as much away from that area.
Originally short for Godfrey, it's a complete name in itself, also as an alternative to the names Harry or Ari.
If you name your DS Theodore, he will most likely have the nickname Theo as it's the most common.
If you like the name Orry so much, why not just name him that?

Theo is a lovely name, but there might well be another in his class at school as it is such a popular choice at the moment. In my experience children arent bothered by that ( and my school had five Emilys in one year group a while back.

That said, i do call my friends son Theo 'T-Dog' for some odd reason...

He will be called Odour and Dora at school

Its a popular name but that's because it's nice. No. It's popular because lots of parents have used it and because long names being shortened are fashionable. I don't like it.

Tod

Me neither

@Paperumbrella , I can think of people with names like Max, Nick, Chris or Tim who were called that as babies and the full name is on the BC. It seems quite normal.

What I don't understand is the MN need to contrive a 'nn' but have a seemingly unrelated 'BC' name. (e.g. Orry short for Theodore, Tessa 'nn' for Esther, both seen on recent threads)

Yes it’s common to have a diminutive name for a baby. My son is Thomas and we’ve called him either Thomas or Tommy from day one. But Mumsnet is full of these sorts of threads where, as you say, posters are trying to force a made up nickname to fit a normal name. I’ve never encountered the like in real life. Some threads even start with the nickname and ask for recommendations of full names they can force it to fit with. So bizarre.

I know an Oren who gets shortened to Ori.

Surely the most natural and most intuitive shortening of Theodore is Theo!

Nicknames are hard sometimes, cos even if you introduce someone with their full name some people will always abbreviate it to whatever they fancy. I hate being called Rach, but everyone does it and in school was often call Ray. You may call him Orry but unless he really likes it and uses it at school, you will probably end up with people calling him Theo or Teddy and he may prefer one of those when he is older. My cousin is Elisabeth and her parents call her Bess and asked everyone in the family to call her Bess but she may prefer Lizzie when she is older. My late aunt was called Catherine and everyone I knew and had known her before uni called her Cath or Catherine but her husband, his family and everyone post uni called her Katy which infuriated my Grandmother cos she had named her daughter Catherine and hated Katy.