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Giving the right nickname is the part of fun! I love creating nicknames, and if I find a nice name that has horrible nickname alternatives, I usually toss it. Actually my every favourite name has also favourite nicknames to it:
Andrew - Drew, but since I'm going to use Andreas - André, Dreas, Andres, Andris... (Russ. Andrei, Andryusha, Dryusha)
Daniel - Dani (common in Finland) (Russ. Danya)
Oliver - Leaf, Ver (Russ. Lif)
Gregory - Not going to use. Greg, anyway. (Russ. Grisha)
Christoph - István, Chris (Kristya)
Aleš - Lyosha
Peter - Perry, Petri (Russ. Petya)
Simon - Not going to use. Si, Sin :D. (Russ. Senya)
Alexander - Sander, Sasha, Xander, Ander. (Russ. Sasha)
Julian - Jules, Julek (Russ. Julek)
Anna - Neta, Nina, Nika, Anni, Ann (Russ. Anya, Neta)
Zlata - Ica, Lata
Ruth - Rue (Russ. Ruf, Rufina, Ina)
Hazel - Not going to use. Haifa, Zelia. (Russ. Zelya)
Senka - No nicknames, except Sena or Siena.
Eliška - Not going to use. Liška, Eška
Sofia - Sofi, Sonja (Russ. Sonya)
Ursula - Ursa, Rusa, Ruzica (Rusa)
Evelyn - Not going to use. Evie, Eve. (Russ. Yeva)
Saskia - Saska
My absolute fave names have many nickname possibilities, and that's very important to me - it the child doesn't like one nickname, he/she can go by the different one.
Oh well. All the names that I might use have also some nickname possibilities in Russian.
Oh, Russian nicknames are a big topic!
Actually every name has only one or a few nickname possibilities - if all the diminutive forms are not counted. (Like the main two nicknames for Yekaterina are Katya - 99% of all the Yekaterinas and Rina 1% - of all the Yekaterinas.
Katyas are also getting called Katyusha, Katyunya, Katenka, Katka, Katyusya, Katyushka, Katyuha, Katerina, depending on the situations. A grandmother can say: Katyunya. Katerina can be used by the strickt mother. Katka is used among friends, and Katyusha is something that a husband could use. Like that.
You have not so much freedom with nicknames, and giving a child name means that you've actually given him more or less authomatically a nickname.
Like: I'm Nastya. Everyone knows authomatyally that her full name is Anastasiya, but no one calls her this. Or if someone says on the phone:
-It is Dmitry Artyomovich (son of Artyom - the more or less official form) calling.
- Aaa, Dima!
- Misha, is it you! How nice to talk to you!
Misha is, of course Mikhail.
You cannot use nicknames as you'd like to - Anastasiya is never Anya, Zhanna is never Zhenya and Valeriy is never Valya.
-> When I'm thinking of using some name, I should always think of its Russian nicknames. Like, I love Ivan, but I'm not keen of Vanya, and that's how he would get called 70% of his time. I love Arkady, but I don't like Arkasha and Adya, so I don't know... Maybe I could be very radical and try Arik, but I'm not sure that it'd work.
I haven't atctually thought a lot about the child's feelings (I'm not sure at all that I'd like to become a mother). I think I'm going to use only names that have nice nickname possibilities - Andreas has no risk of nicknames I don't like - that's one of the biggest reasons it's my "useable N.1 name". :D Anna has no risks, too. Except Annushka, but it is considered as something very old-fashioned, so I don't believe that it'll be used or that little Anna would say that she'd like to get called Annushka.
Andrew - Drew, but since I'm going to use Andreas - André, Dreas, Andres, Andris... (Russ. Andrei, Andryusha, Dryusha)
Daniel - Dani (common in Finland) (Russ. Danya)
Oliver - Leaf, Ver (Russ. Lif)
Gregory - Not going to use. Greg, anyway. (Russ. Grisha)
Christoph - István, Chris (Kristya)
Aleš - Lyosha
Peter - Perry, Petri (Russ. Petya)
Simon - Not going to use. Si, Sin :D. (Russ. Senya)
Alexander - Sander, Sasha, Xander, Ander. (Russ. Sasha)
Julian - Jules, Julek (Russ. Julek)
Anna - Neta, Nina, Nika, Anni, Ann (Russ. Anya, Neta)
Zlata - Ica, Lata
Ruth - Rue (Russ. Ruf, Rufina, Ina)
Hazel - Not going to use. Haifa, Zelia. (Russ. Zelya)
Senka - No nicknames, except Sena or Siena.
Eliška - Not going to use. Liška, Eška
Sofia - Sofi, Sonja (Russ. Sonya)
Ursula - Ursa, Rusa, Ruzica (Rusa)
Evelyn - Not going to use. Evie, Eve. (Russ. Yeva)
Saskia - Saska
My absolute fave names have many nickname possibilities, and that's very important to me - it the child doesn't like one nickname, he/she can go by the different one.
Oh well. All the names that I might use have also some nickname possibilities in Russian.
Oh, Russian nicknames are a big topic!
Actually every name has only one or a few nickname possibilities - if all the diminutive forms are not counted. (Like the main two nicknames for Yekaterina are Katya - 99% of all the Yekaterinas and Rina 1% - of all the Yekaterinas.
Katyas are also getting called Katyusha, Katyunya, Katenka, Katka, Katyusya, Katyushka, Katyuha, Katerina, depending on the situations. A grandmother can say: Katyunya. Katerina can be used by the strickt mother. Katka is used among friends, and Katyusha is something that a husband could use. Like that.
You have not so much freedom with nicknames, and giving a child name means that you've actually given him more or less authomatically a nickname.
Like: I'm Nastya. Everyone knows authomatyally that her full name is Anastasiya, but no one calls her this. Or if someone says on the phone:
-It is Dmitry Artyomovich (son of Artyom - the more or less official form) calling.
- Aaa, Dima!
- Misha, is it you! How nice to talk to you!
Misha is, of course Mikhail.
You cannot use nicknames as you'd like to - Anastasiya is never Anya, Zhanna is never Zhenya and Valeriy is never Valya.
-> When I'm thinking of using some name, I should always think of its Russian nicknames. Like, I love Ivan, but I'm not keen of Vanya, and that's how he would get called 70% of his time. I love Arkady, but I don't like Arkasha and Adya, so I don't know... Maybe I could be very radical and try Arik, but I'm not sure that it'd work.
I haven't atctually thought a lot about the child's feelings (I'm not sure at all that I'd like to become a mother). I think I'm going to use only names that have nice nickname possibilities - Andreas has no risk of nicknames I don't like - that's one of the biggest reasons it's my "useable N.1 name". :D Anna has no risks, too. Except Annushka, but it is considered as something very old-fashioned, so I don't believe that it'll be used or that little Anna would say that she'd like to get called Annushka.
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