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I'm not at all against nicknames in general but those names are all favourites of mine without nicknames that I am fond of. If I ever get to name a daughter Evangeline then I'll call her Eva all the time. Same if I name a daughter Gwendolyn (Gwen), Arabella (Bella), Charlotte (Lot) or a son Lucas (Cass), Schuyler (Sky) or John (Jack).

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However, I wouldn't choose to name a girl Matilda knowing she'd always be called Maddy or a boy Jacob if he would only be called Jake. If I wanted to call them Jake and Maddy that would be what I named them.

I think some people believe that if they name a child a name they want to actually call the child by this name. I kind of agree to an extent, why name your daughter Serafina if you will just call her Sera? But then there are the "anti-naming your kid a nickname" people. Can't make everyone happy. I love having nicknames for people that I'm familiar with though ^_^ it's a nice term of endearment I guess.

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Edit: Though part of it is laziness. If I had a daughter Elanor, I'd probably call her Elanor but I would probably say things like "El, pick up your toys before you go to bed." Those aren't official nicknames though, just something people that say your name often shorten it to for convenience sake.

This message was edited 6/27/2009, 4:10 PM