People with nicknames - does this bug you?

[ElizK]

I'm Elizabeth. The WHOLE WORD. Not Liz. Not Beth. Not any other chopped up name you can make out of the long one. I had a voice mail from Nordstrom yesterday where the girl went "Hi, Liz! This is Whoever from Clinique!" Really? Guess who I will NOT be pre-purchasing my Clinique Bonus from? My name IS NOT LIZ!

Growing up I tried out all sorts of nicknames, but I have been going by Elizabeth for the past 20 years. People should have caught on by now.

Me, too!!! I grew up being called "Beth", so I will answer to that (that's what my parents still call me), but I've never been "Liz", nor do I ever wish to be. Nothing wrong with the name, it's just not mine, you know? I HATE it when I introduce myself as Elizabeth, and the person takes it upon themself to call me something other than what I JUST said my name was!! Very presumptuous.

Took my father-in-law years to stop calling me Liz.

 

[sunlver]

My DS is Matthew, and we ALWAYS call him Matthew. Everyone in our family, including our close friends, call him Matthew. But still, there are people at school, and church, who insist on calling him Matt. It doesn't bother him, but it does bother me!

As for myself, I prefer people use my nickname. My full name is Marcia (pronounced Mar-see-a, but people always call me "marsha"...UGH). So, from a very young age, I've told people to call me Marcy. I get really tired of correcting people...it's not Marsha!

My son's name is Matthew as well. Me and his Father and his sisters all call him Matthew(Btw he is 15 ), all my reletives call him Matthew.When he was younger, like 3 or 4, and I would tell people his name his Matthew. Some people would just go ahead and call him Matt..and he would get mad and say My name is Matthew Paul...(last name)..
Now that he is older, his friends call him Matt. I guess when he is in school he goes by Matt, even his teachers refer to him as Matt. He will always be "Matthew"...

 

[dicar123]

Now - this does not bother to a point where it ruins my day, but it does kind of bug me.

My formal name is Kristine, but friends and family call me Kris. They are the only ones that call me Kris, everyone else calls me Kristine. It is how I introduce myself to people, and write my name for work and such.

For some reason it bugs me when I meet a new person and introduce myself as Kristine, and they start calling me Kris. I don't know why it bugs me and I admit it is kind of stupid to be bothered by it. But for some reason when 'Kris' comes out of their mouths it sounds strange.

Does this bother anyone else?

Kristine

Yes, it bothers my cousin Christy a great deal! Apparently she has a new co-worker who calls her Chris instead of Christy. You are not alone!

 

[avgeek81]

I have a friend at work that calls everyone by their first name and intial of their last name(Brian G, Stephen E) My last name begins with an H which i guess doesnt sound as good, so she calls me Erica P(theres a reason for this letter but the story is long). It doesnt bother me but it sometimes confuses people. A few coworkers knew me from before i worked there and are like "i thought your last name was H------?" Or sometimes I have to fill stuff out and they are like doesnt your name begin with a P. Also last year my HR manager made out my holiday card to Erica F. I dont know what that was about

 

[onelilspark]

I'm Kelly. It's a pretty simple name. I hate it when people call me "Kel" when they don't know me. I mean, if you're close to me, sure, call me Kel, that doesn't bother me. I used to have teachers & professors that on the first day would call me Kel. I always had to say, "it's Kel-LEE"

 

[ilovejack02]

My name is Jennifer, but friends and family call me Jenny. I introduce myself as Jennifer. Most will eventually shorten it to Jenny , since there is someone always around me that calls me Jenny.


My DS is Jack... JUST JACK. Funny how people want to call him Jackson. I am always correcting people on that and yes it annoys me.

 

[CathrynRose]

I am Ann and mostly that's what people call me but a few (mostly folks I've "met" online) call me Annie as I used that as a user name on one forum. Fine - either is ok. Ann is just a "meh" sort of name but Annie sounds cosy and I sort of like it.

DD on the other hand - just don't go there! She is Kathryn Louise (and yes, we've had Kathyrn from her grandmother several times!). Some of her friends call her Kathy, Kat, Kitkat etc. but we always call her Kathryn. But the first Christmas card from some cousins of mine came addressed to me, DH and "Katie Lou" because my mother had taken it upon herself to call her Katie Lou to them She was pretty soon told that it was Kathryn Louise and to keep her awful nicknames to herself!

I love the name Annie. Our new puppy (with the spot on her eye, below) we named Hazel, but Annie was in the running. It *is* cozy!

And I see your daughter has been made to be a nurse, as well.

My son is Daniel - but I named him Daniel to have a 'formal' name. I don't really care, at all, for Daniel. I intended on using Danny (didn't occur to me to just name him "Dan" - and Danny sounded silly for a name-name on a birth certificate, KWIM?)

My Ex-MIL for a good 2 years, on his cards, in person, all the time called him Daniel. Drove me bonkers. I can still hear her voice going "Daaaaniel"

 

[Sparx]

My name is Shelby. Some people insist upon calling me shelLy instead of shelBy. Even the receptionist at my doctors office has sent RX requests to my pharmacy addressed for Shelly. That was a mess. She also misspelled my last name.

 

[phillmolly]

I always go by my nickname, my given name is Amalia, pronouced excatly as it looks, A-ma-li-a, but for whatever reason people insist on saying Amelia, which bugs the c**p out of me. So just to keep everything easy for me I go by Molly which is what everyone has called me since I was a baby. My cousin couldn't say Amalia and Molly just stuck. Even when I worked I had Molly on my business cards.

On the other hand, my DS is William, I wanted to call him Will and my DH wanted to call him Billy (which I can't stand) so we both agreed to call him William. Although we both have our little petnames for him, I call him pooh bear and DH calls him big bot.

 

[BabyPiglet]

My name is Jennifer so people usually just assume I have some kind of nickname. Which I do. My old friends and family know me as Jenny. My current friends know me as Jenn. And my classmates/professors just stick with Jennifer. I usually don't mind if someone calls me a shortened version of my name as long as I've know them for at least a few days. Strangers just automatically calling me something as casual as a nickname is a little off-putting.

 

[WeLoveLilo05]

I always introduce myself as Jaclyn...I prefer to be called Jaclyn
yet I still have people who call me Jackie or Jack, it doesn't ruin my day or anything, I just like Jaclyn better....Jack annoys me though b/c its a boy's name lol.

 

[charming23]

I am Elizabeth and I hate it when someone calls me something different. I have always been Elizabeth in my family but for the past 10 years suddenly my Uncle, his wife, and my two cousins call me Lizzie. I hate it and have told them repeatedly that I do. But they do not listen. I do not know where it came from cause no one has ever called me that.

 

[lillygator]

My name is Vanessa - but really only my coworkers call me that. Everyone calls me V. I am fine with it. However, my eldest is Samantha....everyone shortens it to Sam. I never say anything, but it bugs me a bit. I didn't name her Sam. She doesn't care.

And to tell the truth, I find myself calling her teammates nicknames. So I am just as guilty. I better stop!

 

[camlace]

It doesn't bother me if people assume that I go by a nickname, because I do. BUT it really irked me after my DD was born and people started calling her by a nickname that I didn't want. No matter how many times I told people that's not her name, they still insist on calling her that. I've gotten over it and she's 7 and still goes by the inevitable nickname. I named her Gabriella and wanted to call her Brie, from day 1 EVERYONE called her Gabby! My sister even varied that and whenever she writes her name it's Gabbie~ don't ask, cuz I don't know! I finally gave up and she's my Gabby!

Same problem here...I have a Gabriella and people insist on callling her Gabby, drives me absolutely crazy. She is most definitely NOT a Gabby and Gabriella suits her perfectly. I wanted to shorten to Brie as well (funny, don't think its common, so was suprised to see someone else with the same idea), but it never stuck. I am constantly correcting people and now my daughter does as well. The only nicknames that have stuck for a while but have faded a bit are Gabba (when she was in a toddler day care room none of the kids could say her name ) and then a teacher called be Gabs.

I try and take my cue from parents at school, if they call their child by a nickname/shortened name, then I do the same. There is 1 parent at my daughter's school that insists on calling my daughter Gabby, even after 4 years of NEVER hearing me say that and correcting her numerous times. I started called her son Andrew, Andy and she quickly corrected me..."oh we don't call him that"....well get a clue lady we don't call our child Gabby!

 

[Luvchefmic]

I am with you....it is my biggest pet peeves, I introduce myself to you as Ruthie.....this is who I am....don't call me Ruth...don't tell me it is a beautiful book in the Bible....I have my reasons and I HATE the name....I will not answer you if you don't call me Ruthie. My family knows if they put Ruth on my headstone I will haunt them for all eternity!

My DDs are Jennifer and Francine, not Jenny, not Jen, not Fran.

 

[marypoppinswannabe]

My name is Rebecca and I cannot tell you the number of people who automatically shorten it to Becky. If my name was Becky, I would have introduced myself as Becky.

 

[m!ssemmx0]

My name is Emily, and most people call me Em or Emmy (if they know me pretty well). I don't mind it; even a few of my teachers call me by my nicknames. It does annoy me when people think my name is Emma though.

 

[design_mom]

The opposite for me - my name is Liz; do NOT call me Elizabeth (unless you're an HR person calling me for an interview, or you're my new professor taking attendance on the first night of class...I'll let it slide, but I will let you know, with a smile, that my name is Liz).

Even my own mother never calls me Elizabeth...Now speaking of my mother, her given name is Jill. Yet many, many people ask her if her name is Jillian

I'm in the same boat (or nearly). My name is Kimberly and that's what's on my birth certificate/driver's license, but *nobody* calls me Kimberly. I've been Kim since the moment I was born.

The only reason my parents didn't officially name me Kim is that my mother's given name is Betty and she got sick of people assuming it was short for Elizabeth, when it's not. She didn't want to give me a nickname as a formal name and put me through the same thing.

I don't really mind when people call me Kimberly, but it feels weird and I usually tell them that I go by Kim. It only bothers me when they *still* call me Kimberly. Then it feels like they're ignoring me on purpose.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I know a few people like that. I know a Susan who hates to be called Sue, and a David who hates to be called Dave.

 

[tonilea]

My name, Toni, doesn't lend itself to a nickname, though I always wanted one! lol

When we named DS Thomas, I always thought he would end up being called Tom, Tommy or LT (Little Tom), but he has never allowed anyone to call him anything but Thomas. He always says, "It's Thomas." whenever anyone tries to alter his name in anyway.