Nicknames...inspired by legally chaning your name

[jwsqrdplus2]

I am Jessica, but I am not called Jessie. Jessie is the fasted way to get "the look" from me! Some of my close friends and my family call me Jess, but I pretty much dropped using Jess when DH and I started getting serious. Jeff and Jess was way to cutesy for me.

DDs are Ashlynn and Maiya. Ashlynn's middle name starts with a J, so AJ is a possible nickname for her in the future (part of the decision process for her name). But everyone calls her Ashlynn, and DH and I sometimes call her Big Bit. Maiya usually ends up as Mai-Mai or Maiya V. DH and I also call her Little Bit. See a trend there??

 

[cgcw]

When I was in school, some of the teachers insisted calling me Cynthia -- no matter how hard I tried to get them to call me Cindy.

When I was pregnant with both of our DS's, I was adament that the kids names would not be able to be shortened or have a nickname. They are Cameron & Walker which are hard to shorten (unless Cameron decides later in life to shorten his).

 

[jrydberg]

I have 2 brothers who look a good deal like me, so I always got called "Whatever your name is!" anyway

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I always call children by what their introduced to me as. DD's name is Morgan and her nickname is Mo. Sometimes I call her MoMo. Barely anyone outside of the family calls her Mo (with the exception of a few of my friends).

I'm Melinda and never really had a nickname growing up. I hate the name Mindy and I won't respond to anyone who calls me that. My exh and his sister used to call me Mel. I'm more tolerant of that than Mindy and I always sign my name as Mel (when signing checks or something), but I'm not usually called that. Make sense?

 

[hipporina]

My youngest DS is Joshua. We almost always call him the whole thing, but sometimes we just use Josh. Others will also call him both, but when writing it everyone uses "Joshua". I don't mind Josh, but I love Joshua, so I would hate to see him go to Josh as he gets bigger.

My oldest is John Luke, but always uses Luke. When we were picking his name, he wanted to be named after his daddy, John, so he was. (He was 7 and we changed his name at adoption.) We thought it was too confusing to have 2 of them, so we picked a middle name to use all the time, and everyone knows him as Luke.

 

[HollyJoy]

We don't have too much of a problem. My oldest daughter is Hannah... not too many nicknames for that! LOL And our youngest is Rebecca, and we chose to call her Becca, not Becky. It bugs me when people automatically call her Becky, but it doesn't happen too often. I always introduce her as Rebecca. Some people have asked if we call her Becky, and I am quick to say NO! I'm sure that as she gets older, she'll start speaking up herself, and the problem will be taken care of!

 

[Talking Hands]

My mother choose the name Elisabeth Gabrielle for me. My father made a mistake on the birth certificate info and spelling Elisabeth, Lisabeth and changed the Gabrielle to Gay because he didn't want me nicknamed Gabe. I have changed it back to Lisabeth Gabrielle Fontaine Crawford because I like it better and it is my name. But I go by Lisa because that is easier to say than the French that my name is. Oh and I was nickname Gabe anyway when I lived in Germany so my Dad still had to put up with it.

 

[Bob Slydell]

We figure in time, Cameron will probably end up going by Cam. The nickname doesn't bother DW and I, we thought about it before we named him Cameron. Actually, a teacher of his has already taken to calling him that.

We always call him Cameron, but that's no different than my parents, who are about the only people who call me Stephen instead of Steve.

 

[cynsaun]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
my parents, who are about the only people who call me Stephen instead of Steve.

I thought you were Bob!

 

[disney4us2002]

I seem to be in the minority. I wanted my kids to have nicknames maybe because I never did. My dh is big on full names so he calls the younger two Daniel and Michael but typically I call them Danny and Mikey (hubby flatly refused Mickey, lol) unless I'm mad at them and then they get both first and middle. I guess that's a carryover from my own mom yelling at me!

 

[RadioNate]

Like others I specifically chose a name for my ds that couldn't be shortened....Justin. Of course my mom started calling him "justy" or "just" but that didn't last long. We call him J-man and most of our friends do too. At school he's always Justin.

We liked Jonathon for a name but since I didn't want him called Jon I thought it better to nix it because I figured it was such an obvious nickname I would be able to avoid it.

My name is Alison - Over the years I've been called; Al, Ali, Ann, Lissy, Sonny. DH always uses Alison and my family uses Al, my inlaws have picked up Ali which seem weird.

DH is Nate - short for Nathan but people always insist on calling him Nathaniel...guess it works in reverse too.

 

[MickeysMommy]

If and when I decide to have a child I already have the names. Noah for a boy and Carrie for a girl - not much chance of shortening them.

When I was in college I worked at our local Super K-mart in the Toy Dept (all the birth control I ever needed was working there during Christmas) and in the next dept over (Sporting Goods) was a friend of mine "Matt". I never called him "Matt", it was always "Matthew". After a while of working together and me calling him "Matthew" he said to me, "Stacey, you are the only one besides my mother that I let call me Matthew".

I have also thought of Matthew for a boys name and I would call him Matthew - if others called him Matt so be it but to me it would be Matthew.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Originally posted by cynsaun
I thought you were Bob!

 

[dianeschlicht]

My MIL has a beautiful name...Veronica. Guess what nickname she has ALWAYS gone by! Verne! She is 91 years old and was the youngest of 11 children. She was given that nickname as a child.

 

[Strawberry Lemonade]

People will shorten names and you just have to deal with it. My name is Jennifer and that is the only way I ever use my name. Yet, I always manage to get called Jen. I've learned not to let it bother me. My parents named me Jennifer with the intention of calling me Jenny. It just never caught on and to this day, my dad is the only one who calls me that (and the only one who ever will if people know what's good for them). Lesson learned: you can pick out a name and nickname, but things may not always turn out that way.

DH is the opposite. He prefers to be called by his shortened name instead of his long (Italian) name.

 

[onecoolmama]

Originally posted by cynsaun
I thought you were Bob!

Wow, then his parents are really confused

 

[Mad4Mickey]

When we named our son we always knew that we would only call him by his middle name ( he is named after his father) My ex husband and I started calling him Derick the second he was born .
Now he is called D for short or he answers to Bub for his sister.

My nephew is named Brennan and we call him B or B Man
We have 2 Brandys in our family and we call them B-1 and B-2

My family is very into the whole short name thing LOL

 

[lilpritch04]

My parents chose my name Katie Mae and then put Katharine Mae down as my legal name. I got sick of Katie Mae when I was in 2nd grade and just went by Katie. In 5th grade I changed it to Kathy because I wanted to be older--I didn't tell my parents because I just used that name at school and they were so surprised when they went in for parent/teacher conf! I went back to Katie in highschool and all of my friends began calling me Katie Mae again, so that is what I have used ever since. I love it now.

DH gets called Danny all the time by his family and I just think it's weird to call a 27 year old man Danny. He doesn't seem to mind. I switch off between Dan and Daniel with him. He calls me Katie Mae most of the time, but knows that I will forever answer to Katie.

I hate being called Kate. I hate it!

Most of our friends call us Big Pritch and Lil Pritch, which is kind of fun. But my dad will call my browneyes or Katrina the Ballerina from time to time--I'm fine with that from him only.

DH and I have already talked about naming our children. Kylie is what we want for our future DD, but we decided on that 5 years ago, before it was trendy. Who knows what people will call her. It doesn't bother me if she has a nickname, as long as it doesn't bother her. We will name our future DS David. I do not like the name Dave, but I know it will eventually be used by everybody. Oh well. DH and I have agreed that once we have a child, we will call them by their name and it will be up to them to decide if they want it shortened. I really like nick names, so if someone calls him Davey or something I'll be OK, yes I'll even tolerate Dave once he is old enough to say if he likes it or not--until then, David.

So, I know I'm off in the future a bit, but oh well. That's my 2 cents.

On a side note, a lot of my friends take my name Katie Mae and kind of give it to my younger brother--who now laughs at it but still doesn't really appreciate it. They call me Matey Kay and him Carl Mae.

 

[monkeyboy]

Maybe a little OT but I just saw where composer Elmer Bernstein has passed away.


Why is there a lack of Elmers in the world?

 

[Lisa96]

I'm another Elisabeth with an "S" and would love to be called Elisabeth but everyone always says "Liz" which I hate. (It's not so much the name; I just hate it for myself since I've struggled for years to convince people my name is spelled correctly with an "s" , not a "z" - do you know how hard it is to go through 12 years of parochial school arguing with nuns that THEY are spelling your name wrong ) My family has always called me Lisa, and my parents and 2 aunts all had different nicknames for me, so I don't mind the nicknames at all. I just hate when people call me Liz and I say "I prefer Elisabeth" and they still continue to call me Liz.