https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:13:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1183994 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:10:40 +0000 GrapeCrush 1183994@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>With DS, I don't like the nickname that most would think of for it. DH on the other hand loves it and occasionally call him that. I don't mind him being called it, but I won't call him it. </p> <p>With DD, we had two names picked out and we had a preferred nickname with both of them. We call her a lot by the nickname. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1183979 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:05:54 +0000 mrs.shinerbock 1183979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We definitely are thinking about potential nicknames - surprisingly, about half the people who ask if we have name, then ask if we have a nickname - and the name we have chosen is not long!</p> <p>But, I also think you don't have much control over them - either other kids come up with them or people just shorten them - when my parents moved to IN, their neighbors always called my mother Mar (pronounced like mare) and her name is Mary. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1183952 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:57:52 +0000 Weagle 1183952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Danizaur: Ha! No one calls me Carol. Carolyn, however... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1183833 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:35:34 +0000 Adira 1183833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cmomma17: Not to worry! You're not the only one! A lot of people I know IRL don't realize Xander's a nickname or are surprised to find out his real full name, haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1183811 Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:31:19 +0000 cmomma17 1183811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: lol, I know. I felt like such a ding dong when I remembered that! ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182792 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:32:01 +0000 birdofafeather 1182792@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we didn't at all! ha. but she has a nickname. i don't see myself calling her that regularly, but she can if she wants to go by it or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182757 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:19:39 +0000 swedishfish 1182757@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@petunia354: aw, Owen was our choice if LO was a boy. I never thought of "Owie" - so cute!</p> <p>I didn't think R's name had any nicknames so I was hesitant to choose it. Our babysitter's daughter came up with R's nickname. It's longer than her name! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182743 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:14:03 +0000 SugarplumsMom 1182743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of the reasons why I chose her name was because I wanted to call her by the nickname Emi. Well she's definitely not an Emi, so I never call her that. It's funny how it all turns out :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182737 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:11:49 +0000 Shutterbug 1182737@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lindseykaye: My niece is Arianna and people sometimes call her Ree! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182692 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:56:14 +0000 Pirouette 1182692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lavender: us too! i'm obsessed with our LO-to-be's name but can't stand the default nickname. I'm hoping she somehow develops another nn along the way so no one calls her the default nn :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182624 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:38:09 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1182624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lindseykaye: That's really funny! Lita happened totally by accident and I didn't know it was a *legitimate* name-- I just started calling her Lita-Lita Lorelita and the Lita stuck. Now everyone at home calls her that most of the time. You have good taste ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182576 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:23:26 +0000 lindseykaye 1182576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Twine: Ellie is the nickname my daughter has, and Leta (pronounced the same as Lita) and Lorelei were BOTH on my list. I think we have the same taste in girl names! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182534 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:13:47 +0000 Ginabean3 1182534@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We sort of did.....but LO's name doesn't really lend itself to nicknames. We always call her by her full name as does everyone else. Well, occasionally we'll call her "Your royal chubbness" because she's a chubster. :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182521 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:09:30 +0000 deerylou 1182521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We love DD's most common nickname just as much as her full name, so it was definitely important for us. Geraldine was a contender - in honor of my father - but we couldn't think of a single nickname we would have even tolerated. Middle name for # 2, perhaps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182504 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:05:32 +0000 JessKas 1182504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We totally considered nicknames. There were some names we both loved but were out because of their nicknames, and we mostly call our daughter by various nicknames. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182446 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:48:45 +0000 Mrs. Twine 1182446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I chose Ellie because it was the nickname I wanted for Elizabeth and I didn't want anyone calling her "Liz." Lorelei was almost a Nell, but we thought about "Nellie" and Nellie and Ellie sounds like something off Hee-Haw, so no thank you. We thought Lorelei might be a Laurel, which we like, but as of now, she is "Lita" (pronounced Lee-tah). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182442 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:48:05 +0000 Mae 1182442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am definitely thinking about nicknames as we consider names for our LO! I want to make sure we like the name we pick, even if our kid decides to use one of the nicknames common with whatever name we use. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182433 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:45:41 +0000 mrs. wagon 1182433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! I originally wanted names that didn't have nicknames since I hated having a full name and a nickname growing up, especially since my nickname had a different first letter. </p> <p>Ended up choosing WJ's name to be able to call him Junior or RJ. Ended up choosing LMW's name, basically choosing the nickname but formally naming her the full version of the name. And people who know her full name always call her by a more common nickname. Doesn't really bother me, even though I thought it would! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182415 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:41:05 +0000 lovehoneybee 1182415@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Only to the extent that there weren't any easily rhyming nicknames that we disliked. Reminded me of a flashback scene in The Simpsons where Homer and Marge were trying to decide what to name Bart: </p> <p>(After Homer rejects other names for boys based on rhyming nicknames)<br /> Marge: What about Bart?<br /> Homer: Let's see. Bart, dart, cart, e-art. Nope can't see any problems with that.<br /> (Missing fart due to only 4 fingers).</p> <p>I sort of wanted to give him a name that would have a recognizable nickname (we tossed around Will/William for a while) because I'm Sarah, and I don't really have a nickname. SO wasn't so into it, because he's David...I call him Dave, but a GF he had in HS started calling him Davey and so did all of his friends. They all still call him that to this day, despite his pleas against it--he hates it. </p> <p>I call Evan "Ev" sometimes, but I can't really think of another nickname. But having one ended up not being a serious criteria/consideration (we had too many of those already). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182375 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:30:25 +0000 sarac 1182375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes very much. I wouldn't give a kid a name with a nickname I didn't like. I don't believe in policing the nicknames that people use for your kids, so I just made sure to like any for the name I chose. </p> <p>That being said, I planned to use one nickname for my daughter, and ended up with a totally different one. One that I for site would not have picked as a primary name. Sometimes it just happens. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182140 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:22:12 +0000 MapleMoose 1182140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yes, and we tell people what her nickname is so they don't shorten her name into a male name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182139 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:21:50 +0000 petunia354 1182139@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, but when we picked Owen we thought the only way it could be shortened was to "O". Little did we know his cousins would call him "Owie"!! I think DH hates it but I totally love it, at least for a little boy :) Probably won't love it as he gets older.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1182128 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:18:10 +0000 LuLu Mom 1182128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We choose her name because of the nickname we wanted to use, however I did not want to just name her the nickname (I love both her full name and nickname, but I do think the nickname suits her better.)<br /> I'm weird about this topic, I grew up with a nickname as my full name and I hated getting asked "what's your real name" so I decided my child will always have a "full" name. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181940 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:24:10 +0000 Smurfette 1181940@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lawbee11: @MamaMoose:I Love your LO's name. I wish it would go with our last name. And I would totally drop the y and call her with s instead. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181928 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:18:56 +0000 artsyfartsy 1181928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My niece is named Emma, and that somehow has evolved into "Memma" as a nickname. I think one of the younger children in the family called her that once and it stuck. Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181921 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:16:55 +0000 illumina 1181921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, but I didn't think there would be many for Sophie. Still, I call her SophSoph or SoRo- her middle name is Rose. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181907 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 12:11:47 +0000 lavender 1181907@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we picked out her name we told family not to use the nickname associated with her name as we both hate it. But they have come up with others that I don't mind. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181867 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:47:18 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1181867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@grizz: I have a friend who named her son Fisher but she calls him Fish and Fishy all the time! haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181814 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:27:56 +0000 Boheme 1181814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaMoose: Aww! I just realized your DD's full name is the same as my mom's and my great grandmother's. I love it! </p> <p>@Danizaur: Tru is SO cute! </p> <p>DS's middle name (Fisher) isn't his first name because we didn't want anyone to shorten it to Fish! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-think-about-potential-nicknames/page/2#post-1181810 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:26:49 +0000 shinymama 1181810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't choose our LOs names based on nicknames, but decided early on that we wanted them to called by their entire first names. And then WE gave them non-name related nicknames...they're silly and they've stuck because both boys answer to them. Can't figure out if it's good or bad. </p>