Message: "Re: Antonia doesn't have to be Toni (carry it on)"

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Re: Antonia doesn't have to be Toni (carry it on)

by Norah (norah_girl)

4/21/2018, 11:22 AM

Deborah doesn't have to be Deb / Debbie
Jacob doesn't have to be Jake
Michael doesn't have to be Mike
Steven doesn't have to be Steve
Cameron doesn't have to be Cam
Margaret doesn't have to be Maggie

On the other hand, there are several names where I've known more than three bearers who have all gone by the common nickname and where I've never known someone to go by the full name:
Gabrielle always seems to be Gabby
Gabriel always seems to be Gabe
Christopher always seems to be Chris
Rebecca always seems to be Becca
William always seems to be Will
Joshua always seems to be Josh - although I know one who went by "Shua" (pronounced SHWAH)

~Norah

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- Cayden (theparkite)

4/21/2018, 10:01 PM

Joshua and Gabrielle

I know a Joshua who just goes by Joshua, never Josh, and knew several Gabrielles who always went by Gabrielle.

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- Dracotorix +2

4/21/2018, 6:12 PM

I know one Christopher who isn't Chris, but people try to call him Chris anyway. (And supposedly it can be Topher? But I've only seen that in a play.)
Older Rebeccas are more likely to be Becky. And my mom almost named me Rebecca and was going to call me Reba.

- peonini

4/21/2018, 8:43 PM

The actor who plays Eric Forman in That 70s Show is a Christopher who goes by Topher.

- Aine (poetic_freedom)

4/21/2018, 6:46 PM

I have a cousin and a second cousin once removed (I think...I consider them all cousins because our family is so close) called Christopher and they both do get Christopher a lot but one is Chris and one is Toff.

- Aine (poetic_freedom) +2

4/21/2018, 3:37 PM

I find regional differences in the nicknames for Rebecca to be interesting. Rebecca was quite popular in my age group (at least in the schools I attended) when I was growing up. All of them were Bec/Beck or Bex/Becs/Becks...they maybe got Becky occasionally from their mother or something as a cutesy informal nickname but I never knew a Rebecca that went by Becca or Becky until the first time I lived in the US in 2008. I prefer Becca to Bec personally but I'd never come across it among all the Rebeccas that I have known in Australia.

- Rose-Berry

4/22/2018, 1:36 PM

I was thinking about this the other day for some reason. When I was a child Becky was the obvious nickname for Rebecca, but by the time I got into my teens/early 20s, I noticed lots of Rebeccas were being called Bex / Becks. This would be late '90s. It's around the same time that Catherines started being called Cat.

- Dracotorix

4/21/2018, 6:13 PM

Oh, that's true. I live in the US and there are a lot of Rebeccas called Bec, Beck, Bex, Becks, etc. But Becca and Becky are definitely more common.

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