There really is no name immune from being turned into a nickname, is there?

[chipmonkey]

Ds2 told me today that there is a girl in his class called Olivia who gets called Oblivion.

I heard of an Amber being called Amberger.

Is no name safe?

My name is Ruth.
I have never had a real nickname in my life.

Olivia often gets shortened to Liv or Livvy IME.

DD is Mollie and hers gets shortened to Moll, and also lengthened a lot too.

My name is Claire. I never had it shortened at school, nor had a nn at school. I always wanted a nn! However my nana used to call be Clarabel

And even if names aren't shortened or lengthened, at school nn often occur from surnames or other traits anyway.

Knew a Ruth at school and she got called Roo.

I obviously missed out on NN then.
I can't have been worth renaming!!

oh yes
Olive
Olly
Olster
O
Liv
Lib
Livster
Olivia Neutron Bomb
Olivia Long Legs (!)
My parents called us all names that couldn't be abbreviated
My brother Patrick is Paddy

Claire Bear

if you're from the care bears era

My mum calls my Archie, arch

Celia..it's truly nickname proof I reckon!

Have a friend called Celia and her name is shortened to Ce.

You are right-no name is safe.We tried with DS and everyone calls him by his surname! (It is the sort of surname that people use as a first name).

Always been called either ClaireBear or Clarabel by people too.

nope

my DH is a Michael and although he gets called Mick at work i've always known him as Hoggy

My brother is called Liam as mum wanted a name that couldn't be shortened after mine had been reduced to Soph by everyone, instead we called him LiLi or Liumsk, she tried again with Chloe but we call her Chlo!

All my dd's have nicknames, some from the family some from friends

My MIL chose DP's name specifically because you can't easily turn it into a NN.

For nearly two decades now, almost everyone who knows him calls him a NN based on his surname!

You can't win this one!

I really don't get why people are so against nicknames anyway. I like that different people can call me different things. What's wrong with it?

Not all cultures do this, which surprised me when I first realised. My Danish mate tells me that this doesn't happen in Denmark - she finds it quite weird that we shorten our names.

I think that it is quite nice that it is one area that parent's can't control! You can't stop it-especially if your DC likes it. I call all my DSs by their full names, but I am just about the only person who does.
(I know someone who called their DS Ian-on the grounds that it couldn't be shortened and he is known as 'E'!)

Never had my name shortened, but had nns re my height (or lack thereof)

Mum2T - we have a Celia in our office and everone calls her Ceals!

My name is very, very plain (three letters, though can be four, fairly old fashioned....) and my school NN bore NO resemblance at all to my real name, so I guess you are right!

In my experience there is always a nn to be found,
by a natural shortening eg Jonathan to Jon/Jonnie,
by removing an 'ie' sound like Katie to Kate/Kat,
by adding an 'ie' sound like Rose to Rosie.

Dh is the worst nn creator, his phonebook is full of Daz's, Loz's , Jonesy's and even an Am's for Amy!

Ooh, how about "May" - I can't think of a nn for that!

well my don't have any logical nicknames... and were in fact picked on that basis!

i'm sure they'll find ways as teens though

I am Lauren and my parents thought it was a name you couldn't really have a nn for.

L
La
Larby
Laurs
Laur
and some other unique ones that aren't necessarily descended from name!