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I'm not anti-nicknames, but there is no obvious nickname for our baby. So she will go by her full given name.

i think i'm with you in the no nickname camp. i've ruled out lots of names just because i was afraid someone would use the nickname version.

I call my son Mavi (short for Mavrick) but Sienna is Sienna...
My husband LOVES nicknames. He calls both kids all sorts of ridiculous names.

I actually had a no nickname policy when we dated, clearly he won the battle and calls me fart face. (yes how romantic)

We're nickname-a-holics! LO has a bunch already. My BFF joked that she won't know her name for years because it keeps changing.
As an example, my dogs now respond to brown dog and white dog.

I love nicknames. Like my cousin, whose name is Elisabeth and is called Lisa. What I don't like is nicknames being the legal name. Like Max instead of Maximillian.

I have the nickname Nay. My husband is Kenny. Both of the names we picked out have almost half a dozen nicknames built in.

@Grace: I agree, I don't like nick names being the legal name!

DH's name is one that is commonly shortened, like someone named Matthew being called Matt. My name has a common nickname, but I always refused to let people call me by it and made people use my full name (which my name is short and is already technically a nickname of another name so... yeah).

LO is Charlotte and there are some people who already call her Charlie. Neither DH nor I do though.

I love nicknames! I don't like when nicknames are the legal name so I would just avoid doing that.

I don't care one way or another, I call my son by his first full name, or what he calls himself, which is a shortened version of his name. I don't call him the standard nickname, though, but I am sure that will happen when he goes to school.

Neither my name or DH's has an obvious nickname, so we go by our full name. My FIL is Max, not short for anything and it's a big trend around here to name your kid the nickname, like Mike or Kim, not Michael or Kimberly.

I have nicknames for virtually every person I love, so I'm sure our little ones will have a plethora of nicknames. I don't just shorten names though. As an example our dog's name is Roxie, but I call her Big Rox, Baby Rox, Baby Snack, Snack Pack, and Baby Beluga. I guess I'm just a nicknamer!

Depends on the name... some are horrid! Because of that, I'm definitely considering the nickname when naming this baby! I'ts either going to be a no nickname name or something where I like the nickname.

We use a nickname for my lo. My name can't be shortened or made into a nickname, but I still like them.

DH has always gone by the shortened form of his name (Ben) and as a child I used the shortened form of mine (Jess). Now the only people who call me Jess are DH, my sister, my childhood best friend and my mother because it seemed very "young" to me as I got older.

We will probably call Emma "Em" alot because of our families and their propensity for shortening names, but I would fully support her if she made the same choice I did and wanted to be called by her full name later on.

DH goes by a shortened form of his birth name, I go by my birth name. LO goes by her birth name and DH corrects people who try to call her by a nickname. We however have pet names for her but tend to mostly use her given name except in informal written communications when we just refer to her by the first letter of her name (do the same thing with the dog though).

I'm a nick-namer.

I loved the name Cobi - which I guess could be nickname or full name, but my husband thought it was too short. So we named him Jacobi, but we always call him Cobi.

We have a million other names for him, little love, buddy, pickle butt, pumpkin head, lovey, Coco, Coco bee, Ja-co-co, little man and the list goes on

@Grace: Nicknames as full names are my name pet peeve. I knew a girl named Jessie once, not Jessica, and for some reason it drove me crazy.

But, I love nick names. I never had one and always wanted one. When we talk baby names we always talk about the nickname options. I think it you truly don't want your kid to be nicknamed, you probably shouldn't give them a name that always is. It reminds me of the friends episode where Rachel tells the gang not to call her crush Josh. "It's Joshua." "What, he doesn't like Josh?" "No, I don't"

I have a million nicknames for my kids. They almost never go by their full, real names in my house!

Yes, for fun we do. Especially the pets, their names evolve into something entirely off the wall. Our dog Danny has turned into just G. Short for Danny G, Ghetto dog from when we lived in a less than stellar neighborhood.

I already knew when we picked Cameron, that I would call him Cammy or Cam all the time. Somehow he has also turned into Booh-Bah, I have no idea how!

Other than that, none of our families are big nickname people. I was the only one growing up who had one- Cheska, part of a much longer italian version of my name.