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.

Why the fk would you give a name like that to a child
i like Reggie ( know one) but peregrine Jesus wept don’t be that parent

Agree. Definitely don’t do Morwenna (I assume that is your older dd ?) and Peregrine. It sounds like a slightly hippy soap brand.

I know a Reggie too, named after his grandfather. I think it's ok but wouldn't choose it and it's very different in vibe to Morwenna.

Peregrine, yes. Perry, yes, good. Reggie: please don't.

Edmund, just choose Edmund. Edmund can fit into any circles, Peregrine doesn't.

Agreed.

If you look at your brand new squishy beautiful baby and with your whole heart think ‘he is definitely a Peregrine’ I will send you one million pounds.

Peregrine is awesome, Reggie is very much not, imo.

Why don’t people just name their children what they actually want to call them instead of trying to contort nicknames out of pretentious names they don’t want to call them?

You can’t engineer a nickname.

Sorry, but Peregrine is absolutely awful.

I laughed out loud when I saw the title of the thread.

Peregrine is unbearably pretentious, just awful awful awful.
To then give them an extremeley working class nickname is just absolutely bizarre. I would think you were mad if I found out that little Reggies full name was Peregrine, and I would gleefully gossip about it.

I was trying to think of another example to show how ridiculous it is, like
Caty - Candida
Bo - Balonz

But Reggie for Peregrine is the worst

Is this a joke?

I love Peregrine, go for it!

Yes it has an air of posh but really who cares these days. One of the Mitford sisters called her son Peregrine and his nickname was Stoker so if you want Reggie then do it. I quite like Per as a shortened name though as it seems more authentic.

Perry as in: Kevin and Perry go large!
😂

We used to know a Perry, but it was short for Pericles - he was Greek.

TBH I’d think naming an innocent little baby Peregrine would be akin to child abuse.

Do not make your poor child peregrine. They don’t deserve that life.

Reggie is alot more popular than any of your others, if that bothers you.
I think if you like Reggie it would be more sensible to just name him Reggie. Although I don’t like it much. I think Edmund is good.

Pericles 😁 That’s cool as fuck

Just remember that you can't control what nickname his peers give him. Whilst you like Reggie as a shortened version, they could call him Grinnie.

DS was at uni with a young man called Rameses. Love the name but I wouldn't have been brave enough! Their friendship group called him The Great without using his forename at all. I've just checked with DS and he's still in his contacts as that. Probably not what his parents expected but he loved it and it's stuck for years now.

Pippin is short for Peregrine. At least that is the only shortening I know - but it is the name of a hobbit.

I wouldn't put Peregrine as a nature name. It makes everyone think of a peregrine falcon, but it just means pilgrim/wanderer, which isn't very nature-y. The falcon migrates long distances so they included peregrine in its name.

I'd go for Edmund too.

I think of Morwenna as a Cornish name (or Celtic at least). Would you consider Petroc instead of Peregrine? I think Morwenna and Petroc pair nicely.

Morwenna is Cornish.

This. You can't control what his friends will call him.

And the Duke of Devonshire lives at Chatsworth in Derbyshire anyway. None of that really relevant to the choice of name anyway.