PENELOPE- NAME HELP

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Hi there, Calling all mums who have named their daughter penelope- does the name always get shortend to Pen/Penny/Nell ect? Im thinking about naming my daughter penelope which i LOVE the full name but really dislike most of the nicknames, i dont mind the nickname "P" do you think its too risky to select this name if i dont love the name shortend to pen/penny/nell ect. Please help!! thank you x

You need to make your peace with it. MIL polices DH and BIL’s names aggressively into their 40s - it doesn’t look great

My late cat was Penelope. She was Pen.

Likely to be shortened to Pen / Penny / Nell.

What about Persephone or Phoebe?

100% it will be shortened by her friends and aquintances.

And It's not your name, it's your child's name.

Once she gets to school she will chose what to do with it. She might love Pen or Nell. Or chose a totally different name of she dislikes Penelope.

Just pick a name you love & call your DD what you want to call her. That's all that's all in your control.

One of my mum's friends chose Adrian for her son because she didn't want him called a diminutive and thought it couldn't be shortened... and his nickname ended up as 'Aids' 🤷🏼

so do i go for Elsie instead? and maybe use penelope as the middle name? husband loves penelope but i just cant get head around what the nicknames would be

It's hard to manage common nickname shortening as a child but easier as an adult.

You could try by making sure the school know and correcting others but if the child doesn't object or mind the nickname you'll be fighting a losing battle.

If you call her Penelope, she'll be able to assess the level of education of people for ever by prevalence of jokes about weaving.

I dont mind the nickname "P"

Except that pee is very common slang for urine. I really wouldn’t.

No you can't call your child Pee in front of her school friend. That's cruel. Might as well call her piss.

I loved the name Alexander but didn't call my son that because I don't like the shorted versions of it. In the end you have no control over the shortening of their name. Only they do.

I have a friend, in his 40s, called Daniel but everyone calls him Dan. Whenever someone calls him Daniel he gets annoyed and says only him mother calls him that. So pushing for the use of the right version by a patent can really backfire.

I had a university friend called Bill. If you called him at home in the holidays (days of landlines only) and his mother answered and you asked for Bill she hung up. He's a professor now and is officially known as Prof Bill XXXX.

All the Penelopes I have known are Pennys.

Lopey?

@Cheeseplantalltheway dopey lopey
😂

Elsie is lovely but not sure Elsie Penelope flows. I like Phoebe as a PP suggested.
Highly likely to be shortened. I instantly think of Penelope Pitstop. No child wants to be called “ P”

Penelope is a beautiful name. My child's friend is called Penelope. We called her by her full name until she hit her teens and now it's Penny or Penelope. You have to let her decide what she does with it. I have a long full name ..I only ever use the short form.

I do have another friend who chose traditional names for her kids and they are most definitely Catherine and Christopher still but not sure how she's managed that....!

My late tortoise was Penelope, never shortened.

a lot of people won't know how to pronounce it and will say Penny-lope rather than Pe-nell-oh-pea
you can call her "Pea" if you want but she may choose something different for herself when she gets older.

Elsie Penelope is quite clunky.

I think you make your peace with Penny or choose something else.

Seriously?

Are you drunk? Penny-lope??? Pea?

My DD has my top name as her middle name for exactly this reason. It’s a name that would definitely be shortened - just as Penelope would be.

P is ridiculous, but I really like Pen.

Yes seriously
its my name, which is how I know ...

Are you always so rude?

penelope is very long though

Parents have no agency over the niclnames/shortenings of their children. You could call a child Jane and for some reason their friends could call them "Jelly".

I love the name

You can’t live your life based on stupid people though. My name gets mispronounced & I just correct them & move on.