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?

You can't do much with Claire - apart from chocolatey

I thought I was safe with Sam...but it's Sams, Sam-o, Sambone , Sammer Bammer...and Wreckin' Ball. When he's not being Honey Boy or Sweets, anyway.

Leo would be Lee, wouldn't it?

Come to think of it, I have a friend Kay as well and she's never shortened.

Kay.... never had a nickname.... even if you shorten it to one letter its still the same.

me and my bro given monosyllabic names for that very reason, but my brother's name has slightly more scope for messing than mine

I've always found as an adult, that friends call you by the name you introduce yourself with. This works well if you start a new job or move house and have to meet lots of new people, you can quite easily shed the high school nickname. It's much harder if you're surrounded by people who've known you for years.
I don't know what you do about people giving your children nicknames, I suppose if they like it you just have to bite your tongue.

We named dd Edith so we could shorten it to Edie, she calls herself didi, I either call her dids or little bit

dc2 (due 9/8) if its a boy is also being given a longer version of the short name that dp and I like

I think someone mentioned May as a name that can't be shortened.....seem to recall that in 'Lark Rise to Candleford' (Flora Thompson's wonderful book, not the naffo TV series) one of the narrator's little sisters is called May because her mother hates the local habit of calling every child by a diminutive. Everyone end up calling her 'Mayie' - it can't be shortened, so they lengthen it instead!

There's no way round it, obviously (and I speak as one who's had to endure various nicknames thanks to my fairly old-fashioned, quite unusual name)

The Aussies tend to lengthen a name and not very imaginatively.

A John will become Johnno, Steve - Stevo etc...

pixiestix - "Queen" as in May Queen or Maybelle, Maybeline, Mayflower...?

lulabellarama - Have you never been a Katy or a Kat?

I don't like my name shortened LibbyLobster so maybe it is a Canadian thing. My only nickname came from my adorably cute nose

My ds Guy got Gay at school
dgs is Finn I cant think of a nn for that.

I know a Kate who is only ever called Bob.

There's always a way to change a name into an affrectionate (or not so affectionate) shortening/lengthening

DS is just called 'boy'. Very easy.

I'm a Nikki, gets shortened to 'Nik', 'Pixie' & 'Nix' and lengthened to 'Nicola' on occasion

I knew a boy called Joseph. His nickname was Full Immersion. Really.

And a boy called Michael. Who was called Beaker until the day he failed the physical to be an RAF pilot. Then he was called Orville.

MaMight I know one of those too!

I have a name that's fairly unshortenable, but ended up being called Jules most of the time at school - just because I (allegedly) looked like her (I wish!) - probably more to do with being a bit wholesome (I try not to be). But no, if people want to nn you, they will - doesn't matter if you're Esmerelda or Ann.

I'm terrible with nnaming my dds, so can't complain!

You can give anyone a nickname no matter what they're called - but if you mean a shortening of their name... I'm Anna and I've never been anything else. To my face anyway! It's actually better than Ann - they tend to get Annie.

My name never has much done with it. Though that could be something about me. 'Jemma' can be shortened to 'Jem' but usually I'm still called Jemma. Though my friends sometimes call me 'Jemmikins', and to my lasting shame my mother referred to me as a certain Beatrix Potter anthropomorphic duck character for much of my early childhood.

Mind you, what my parents were thinking assuming 'Victoria' couldn't be abbreviated I don't know. And yes, they have mentioned that being a reason they chose the name. Mind you, her nickname is 'Idd', so fair's fair. It's not an abbreviation of her name. (It's actually the abbreiation of another nickname.)

Likewise, she knew a guy at college called 'Bert'. His name was Matt. I have no idea. Compared to that, my friends Ali ('Alice - or Alys as she spells it now) and Amy (sans nickname) are rather bland.

My grandmother was always perplexed as to how my Dad's 'Simon' could become 'Billy', but it's to do with the surname apparently. And it's that or 'Si'.

ooh pixieoneleaf i love the name Romilly! i might steal that....

nn are ok but i would try to avoid naming the dds names that get shortened to boys names, which i object to - terri, toni etc it would drive me mad - its theresa and antonia!!

i couldnt name any of my dcs something that is already a diminutive - surely stacey is short for eustacia? or am i imagining that?

I had a friend called Kay, precisely because her parents wanted a name that couldn't be shortened - her father then proceeded to call her KP all her life

I knew a Kay, her family used to call her Yak

there is always a nn to be founs