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For amusement, myself, my husband, and a few of his relatives were discussing nicknames for Alexandra. This was mostly started because there are now two Alexandra's in the family - We named our daughter because we thought it was a pretty historical name; a few months later his cousin who I've never met before and my husband hasn't seen since he was 10ish named his daughter Alexandra because it roughly sounds the same in English and in Finnish where he lives & his wife is Finnish. Once we got past the awkwardness when we met for the first time this past week, it was fine and somewhat amusing (mostly because the two may see each other once every 5-10 years if that, so no big conflict). It was also interesting we both call our daughers by their full names (though she calls her older daughter, Beatrice, Bea).

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So, for fun, here are some of the proposed nicknames. What do you think, and do you have any more suggestions?

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Alex (Husband's grandmother's original nn for her, though I don't like it - too masculine for me and my husband's stepbrother is Alec)
Alexa
Allie (Most of my husband's family member's favorite)
Lexi (This is the one my sister uses)
Xan
Xandra (This is how my three year old says her name, and the only nn we've used so far, if only sparingly)
Xana
Ada (An interesting new one I hadn't thought of, but it's growing on me).