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I’m a Margaret who’s eschewed nicknames most of my life, so that’s my best example. Some members of my family call me Maggie, and when I was in middle and high school a lot of my friends called me Margie, but most people have no issue with the no nickname thing. I do remember I boy at my middle school, though, who asked to be called Joseph but was called Joe by everyone anyway. Worse, he was actually called “little Joe” - he was very short - to distinguish him from the other Joe in our grade. Poor kid.

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Also knew a Veronica who was just Veronica. That’s one I constantly see people declare unusable, because of the nicknames, but the full name works perfectly fine irl.

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I think the main concern with giving a name that has nicknames you hate would be the child actually choosing to go by one of those nicknames rather than having it forced into them by others. You can’t really fight that.

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This message was edited 4/21/2018, 11:21 AM