Alexandra - nicknames?

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DD3 is on the way and we are thinking Alexandra - what do people think of the nicknames Alex vs Lexie ? Or any others of course ! 🤗❤️😊

My friend has a little girl called Alexandra. Her's is shortened to Ali.

Of your suggestions I would choose Alex.

I like both of those shortenings, with a slight preference for Alex.

Sandy is another possibility that I would consider.

We have a toddler Alexandria. She just goes by Alex.

We have one known as Lex, Lexie or Sassy depending on her mood 😂

Ali/Allie
Sandy
Lexi/Lexie
Alex

Alicky

Alexa, Allie/Ally, Lexi, Alex… I think the name Alexandra is great as so many nickname and spelling potentials so you (and her as she grows up) can see what fits her. Personally I like Alex the best

Alex is the most intuitive one.

Alexandra is beautiful. The diminutives are bland and boring.

A nickname would come about over time, like Squish, Robin, Muppet....

*My family nickname was Eric, and I'm a girl!

I know a 17 year old Alexandra who has always gone by her full name.
Now at college her new friends have spontaneously started calling her Alex.

I think nicknames should be that, spontaneous. Alexandra is a beautiful name (biased here 😉). See how things develop as she grows.

Lovely choice, classic but not overused.

You may find a nn comes naturally when she comes - Al, Allie, Alex, Lexie, Ay, or as @elQuintoConyo suggests, something totally different.

Hi, I'm an Alexandra. I absolutely hate it when people call me Alex. It's a male name, has none of the grace of Alexandra. Do you have to shorten it? Just use an entirely different name. Noone shortens it around me because I introduce myself with my full name and it has never been an issue.

Ours is Lex, we started with Lexi but she never like the ‘I’ at the end.

Alex
Alix
Lexi
Lex
Sandra/Xandra
Sandy
Allie/Aly
Sasha
Drea
Xan

Or stick with Alexandra, which is beautiful 🤩

I prefer Alexandra as it is, in its full form, because it is so elegant! Ally would be the most likely nickname that I would choose, because if you have a name that is unisex/similar to a boys' name (like Alex) the default thought seems to be that you are male. I got very tired of being assumed to be a boy.

I have an Alexa (born before the Amazon device was invented!). She gets Lex, on the basis I'm not a fan of Lexi and neither is she. I'd anticipated Alex as a nickname for her - and did actually contemplate calling her Alex - but it just never stuck.

The Alexandra I know is Lexie, which I like.
Zandra like Zandra Rhodes?
Ali

NNs tend to emerge rather than be planned or engineered. Baby Lexie could become LexieLou and then Lou…
A friends baby became Alex then AllyPally then Pally.
And it all changes when they are teens.

My daughter is Alexandra and most of the time that’s what people call her. Within the family we call her Lexie Lou but that’s for us.

She doesn’t like Alex and absolutely hates Alexa. I don’t like shortenings of names so I use the full names of all my children my husband and my siblings. I only use a nickname if that’s how someone introduced themselves. Hate it when people shorten mine.

Lexi is awful and Alex seems to be far more popular for boys.

Alex
Ally
Sandy
Alexa
Sasha
Sandra
Zandra

I have a friend called Alexandra and she is 'Andi'

I thought that Sasha was the traditional diminutive for Alexandra and it is itself a lovely name. (As is Alexandra DD2 has it as a middle name). Shura and Lesia are also Slavic abbreviations for Alexandra and I think Drina is not uncommon in Germany. Wikipedia has quite a list of suggestions some of which are very pretty like Alessia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra

If you're going to shorten a name, why on earth don't you just name your child the shortened name?

FWIW Lexi

@BotterMon , Because the short versions tend to go out of fashion or Alexandra might want to be Alex at home and Sasha with friends but Sandy at work.

The short forms of Elizabeth definitely fall in and out of fashion. Baby names since 1904: how has yours performed? - Office for National Statistics

Lovely name. I like Lexi or Sasha. Alex is a shame when the name is so pretty, so why turn it into essentially a man’s name.