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No I won't prevent it but I won't use it. My sons name is James. I don't particularly care for Jim but if he wants to use it that's up to him. I don't really think I will stop calling him James he might be 30 years old and I may still call him my baby, sweetie, honey. James will just be one of the things his mother calls him.

I'll probably XNay names I don't like! DH had a few beers on our babymoon (okay, he was wasted) and started calling her Harpy, instead of Harper, and fingernails on a chalkboard would have sounded better to my ears than "Harpy." Needless to say, that got banned QUICK.

I would just not use it b/c you can't tell people to not use a nickname. My son's name is Nicholas and I really dislike using "Nick" or "Nicky" for some odd reason. I do love the name Nicholas and we call him Nico for short. What I do is call him by our preferred nickname in hopes people will get it. LOL! I'm sure his friends will call him "Nick" at some point and there's nothing we can do about it.

@autumnlove: I think Olivia is in the top ten female names these days? She can't really call dibs on it!

@autumnlove: I didn't know Olivia was one of the names that friend "claimed!" I cannot imagine hogging certain very popular names when I was not even pregnant yet! Our boy name is near and dear to my heart and totally not common, and I'd be REALLY sad if someone beat me to it in my circle/family, but that's life. I may never even have a son!!!

My BIL used to ask his teachers and friends to call him Scotty-watty-doo-dah. No joke, and they actually did. As long as it's not a nickname like that, I'm ok with it. Even if it is a nickname like that I'll probably be ok with it

This is a concern of ours as we really like the name Catherine but don't like most of the nicknames. If other people started using nicknames I would have no problem saying "actually we call her Catherine". But if the child wants to use a nickname I think you have to just go with it.

DS name is Grayson and DH wants to call him Gray...i can't stand it so i personally won't use, nor will i encourage anyone else to use it lol but if he wants people to call him Gray when he's older, that's fine, i won't though.

@autumnlove: The name John used to be in the top 10 or higher, but these days it's down to #27!

@autumnlove: Wow! Gutsy!!!

I don't like the nickname for my son's name but if he chose to go by it when he egts older I would repect that choice and call him by that nickname. But right now he can't talk so I call him by his full name which is a much better name.

@erwoo: that's my brother's name and my mom hated Nick as well. We called him "Nicka" and "Coco" haha. Now we call him Nicholas all the time and he doesn't care for the nn either, but people just naturally shorten it anyway.

My son's name is Jacobi, and I purposefully picked it for the nn Cobi which is what we call him 90% of the time. But some of my uncles/cousins insist on called him "Jake" which I really don't like!! I don't get it either because Jacobi doesn't even have the Jake sound in it. Anyway, I think they get it and just do it to annoy me now.

I guess it he actually wants to be called Jake when he's older that's fine - but I think Cobi is a sweet nickname that even an older boy would love.

My mom named me Jennifer, called me Jenny and despised Jen, but I don't remember her ever actively discouraging anyone from calling me Jen. Same for my sister, Jessica - no one ever called her Jess until HS or so.

I hate it when I introduce myself as Jennifer, and a nano-second later that person calls me Jen. I'm not a huge fan of being called Jen, but Jenny is hard to carry off as an adult. So we specifically gave our baby a name that isn't common or commonly shortened (Hadley). We call her Hads, but I don't know if that's as intuitive as Jennifer = Jen, Elizabeth = Liz, etc.

@Coco Bee: Your brother has such a cool name! Never thought of "Nicka" or "Coco" but they're both better than being called "Nikky!" It sounds like a girl's nickname. I love the name Jacobi! Never heard of it until now.

Absolutely, I don't really care what they want to be called unless it is inappropriate.

This is a really good point. I always say I don't want to have a name where I don't like the nickname (Like Robert - Rob) and people always say "oh, you just choose what you want the kid to be called" but there is a point where it's out of your control.

My name is Jacqueline but my dad started calling me Jackie from day 1, which my mom didn't like. I'm not a big fan of either, so what can you do?!

DD is Eleanor, we call her Eleanor and Nora. I don't really like the nn Ellie, but if she wants to go by that when she's older she can, nothing we can do!

Yeah I dont see why she would name him Timothy if she hates timmy or tim because its pretty inevitable but someone out there will try to call him that.

I was very concerned about this when choosing a name. We picked a name that doesn't have a common nickname and is already short, so hopefully it doesn't happen. If people try to call her by a nickname, I will correct them. My husband is Peter and when people try to call him Pete, I correct them. DH's family is already trying to nickname my unborn daughter, and I have made it clear that we are a no nickname household. I had to make this clear when they tried to nickname me when DH and I started dating. I clearly selected a specific name for my daughter for a reason and someone else who didn't bring this child into the world doesn't get to change it to something they'd rather call her.