Could Reggie work as an everyday shortening for Peregrine?

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Is it mad, or do you think Reggie could work as an everyday shortening of Peregrine? Yes it is a bit of a stretch to pull a soft g from a hard g but there are stranger ones, like Teddy from Edward. Peregrine is quite a lot of name but an old name with some nice associations such as the falcon or the first mayflower pilgrim born in North America. I was going to put it in the middle family name slot but wonder if Reggie offers a more modern and unpretentious alternative to Peregrine as a first name. I dislike Perry as it feels like the wrong generation and I'm also visualising Kathy Burke. I'm not especially a fan of the name Reggie/Reg as a stand alone but I don't dislike it as a playground name. I'm not a fan of Reginald at all however. I quite like the contrast between Peregrine and Reggie, I could be completely wrong in how this comes across though.

I asked a few of my younger but university educated work colleagues what they thought about the name Peregrine and received answers along the lines of: Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children/Isn't that a girls' name?/Like the bird?/Is that a real name? So I'm not sure it will carry any strong connotations for younger generations other than possibly sounding like a young adult fantasy character. On that note,: Morwenna + Peregrine? I wonder if this seems quite thematic or possibly a teensy bit alternative/glastonbury/pagan revival? Or just two romantic and old fashioned names? I have slightly less grand alternatives such as Ludo/Hector/Rafe/Edmund under consideration as well.

They’re both awful, even if you’re terribly posh which I’m assuming you are. Hector is nice as is Edmund if you don’t mind “Ed” which is not a nice sound.

I'm not sure any of those are less grand. They are all hyper-grand and would make me, as a 50 year old Mancunian, snigger if i didn't actually know the child. I do think Reggie works fine as a diminutive.

I'd judge the original name but then I think my kids names are judged (unusual boy's name and germanic girls' names) and we are all coping fine!

Perry is short for Peregrine and Reggie is short for Reginald.

Perry is usually short for Peregrine. Reggie is short for Reginald. Former is old school posh boy name, latter is an old school working class name

Peregrine is a good name for the bird, but not for a baby.

No, it wouldn’t. A boy or man named Peregrine will see it shortened to Perry by his friends, school mates, colleagues.

Is this a joke post?! Peregrine is insanely posh/mad and Reggie is a Kray Twin. Eek!

Go for Hector or Edmund.

Morwenna and Peregrine - yes - definitely too much and from a festival.

To me they're two entirely separate names. Reggie is short for Reginald or (increasingly) a name in its own right.

If you don't like Perry and can't see Peregrine bring used as an everyday name then I'd suggest looking at other choices TBH.

Please don’t call your son peregrine

Peregrine is awful and will end up shortened to Perry anyway.

I can't hear the name Reggie without thinking of the Kray twins.

... there are stranger ones, like Teddy from Edward.
I don't find anything strange about Edward being shortened to Teddy.

I thought Peregrine was a girls name thanks to Dame Jilly.

Not sure your child will thank you if you call them Peregrine

Both awful, and shortened names are unnecessary, have a name, leave it alone. My late DM gave me a name you cannot shorten or mess with, I did the same with my dks.

I’m glad you made sure to ask the opinion of your university educated colleagues 😑

Awful name (I’m uneducated though so you might want to ignore my opinion!)

I rather like Peregrine and I think Perry is miles better than Reggie.

Oh,does anyone remember the Black Comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perin.

Names are mostly altered by sound not by spelling (hence Ted or Ned from Edward), so Peregrine will become Perry, Pez, Pezza in the playground, or Reg to rhyme with egg. That is, unless you go out of your way to call him Reggie (to rhyme with edgy) from the off, in which case no one will ever use Peregrine. I like some ‘nature’ names, but Peregrine is, to me, a stretch too far and could fit in the list of baby names in the sitcom “Here we go.” (Sorry!)

I don’t much like Hector - the verb ‘to hector’ isn’t nice and it could be shortened to Heck. Edmund would be my choice from your list and works with a Morwenna. If this isn’t a wind-up. And maybe if people wonder if it’s a wind-up, that tells you something…

Happy naming, though!

If this is for a human child, don't be daft. If you're naming a puppy, crack on.

I don't think Reggie for Peregrine works at all because they are completely different sounds.
Perry is the normal diminutive for Peregrine .
If you like Reggie call him Reggie or Reginald.

"I asked my university educated colleagues" 😂 😂 😂

Reggie and Peregrine are from two completely different worlds.

You could shorten Peregrine to Pippin (like Pippin Tonks in Lord of the Rings - also Callie Cole’s son Peregrine is a Pippin)

Wait I assumed Guy's schoolboy love WAS a man?

Peregrine, is a dreadful name, please don't saddle your child with it. If you do, I can guarantee, everyone will call him Perry and once he's had the piss taken out of him several times, he will refer to himself as Perry too. It's as bad as Tarquin.

Reggie is traditionally short for Reginald, not Peregrine. Nowadays it's used in its own right, the same as Eddie, Archie, Teddy, Alfie etc.

Children generally want to fit in with their peers. Saddling him with a name like Peregrine, means he will stand out for all the wrong reasons. Don't do it to him, it's him that has to live with the name, go through school, not you.