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ic... y and ie nns for MOST (not all) fuller names sound EXTREMELY childish to me and I'm not a fan of them in most cases... Thus, calling adults Katie or Susie instead of either Kathleen (or other variation) or Susanna (or other version) ore even just Kate or Sue feels strange to me (Same with Billy or Bobby on men, though Billi or Bobbi on women don't bother me so much since the shorter versions would be confusing)... like I'm talking down to them or something even though I'm not... I usually prefer full names anyway. The exceptions to the ie nn thing for me tend to be certain nns where they're cross-gender nns that could be used on either gender... like Dani, Frankie, Bobbi, Robbi, Cori, Billi, Stevie (this one partially because it's a refreshing change from Stephanie), or Toni... the ones where you can't very well shorten it to its simplest form and still sound at all feminine. I like Ricki too, but it stands as a name on its own. The only spelling I can stand for Deborah's short form is Debi... and even that I have an aversion to. Otherwise, the nicknames like Joey, Kimmy, Susie, Lenny, Chrissy, Jenny, Davy, Becky, Johnny, etc. just sound like someone's trying to hold onto their childhood still when they're 30 or 50 and it strikes me as odd. Thus, unless the name is a full name in its own right and not just people being lazy and not using a/the full name, I'd have an aversion to that.