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Everyone gets nicknames in my family- it is completely and totally unavoidable- and so I always take potential nicknames into consideration when I like a name. For example, Meredith was in my top 3 girls names for quite awhile. It has recently disappeared off my Top 10 not because I dislike the name, but because I could never really use it. I don't like any of the potential nicknames and Meredith is just too long for her to not get one in my family. She'd end up being Merry or Mez or something :/

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If a name has a good nickname, it can be enough to make me love it (I began to love Edith because of the nn Edie- now I love Edith itself as well). I also love names with lots of nickname potential like Elizabeth, Penelope or William.

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Anyway, I'm rambling :-p

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The crux of it is, I am a total nickname person!