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HelpRe: Would you still use a name if you hated all the nicknames?
in reply to a message by coldplayer9
You can only control what you do. Most people follow the lead of the parent. At least while the child is relatively young. If I really loved a name I would still use it and make my family call her/him by the full name. That's all you can really do. You have some nice names picked out, but they all have bad nicknames. If I didn't completely love the name I wouldn't use it. If I absolutely loved the name, I would call the child by that name, try to get everyone to follow along (including said child) and put up with those who call that child by nicknames.
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That's exactly what I would do. But I'd absolutely hate if my future daughter was called Nicolette her whole life, and due to a brief bit of rebellion in middle school where she called herself Nikki, she'd be called Nikki the rest of her life. I guess it'd be up to her though. I'd call her by her full name no matter what.
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