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Abbey doesn't bother me, it's my cousin's name so I'm used to it as a full name.

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It really depends on the name for me. I would never use Ellie or Katy / Katie as full names, yet Nora and Kate are perfectly acceptable to me. Maybe it's the ee endings, though that doesn't make sense with Abbey. I'll just say with Abbey it's because I've grown up with a cousin my age named Abbey and her name has grown with her. However, Timmy is not a grown up name. I have two uncles named Timothy. One was Timmy for the longest time but once he was in his twenties he wanted to be Tim or Timothy. My other uncle is still Timmy and it just seems very babyish for a grown man to be called Timmy all the time.

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I like when parents give their child a more formal name with different NN options. I love Eleanor and Katharine which have a plethora of NNs. That way the child can grow up to kind of pick their own or allow a NN to evolve. Then again, I still love Nora and Kate so I feel like I'm contradicting myself, lol.