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To me nicknames are not important at all and I think it's kind of weird how obsessed some people seem to be with nn. I don't think that a boy named Daniel inevitable will be called Dan or Danny or that someone named Alexander has to be called Alex. I'm named Caroline and all Carolines I know of have been called Carro (which I hate) but no one has never called me that because I've always gone by my full first name.

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There is also a difference in using "nicknames" I think. I for example love Alec as a first name but everybody seem to think that I can just as well name a boy Alexander and call him Alec but nicknames are not at all that common in Sweden and you don't name your child one name and call them by another here. Jimmy, Freddy, etc are full names here and no one would think that someone who introduce himself as Jimmy has another name or that Jimmy is a nickname.