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Of course it works. When people think of nicknames for Sophia, Sophie is the one that springs to mind.

Sure, it works. Actually, I don't know any Sophias who aren't called Sophie by their friends and families.

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I slightly prefer Sophie on its own, but Sophia/Sofia, nn Sophie, is gorgeous too.

I see no reason why Sophie couldn't be used as a nn for Sophia... it's pretty much right in the name. While I'm not a fan of either name, I think you could go either way on this one.

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Side note: I call my friend's daughter Sophia Fi-chan because her bro used to caller her Fia when she was a baby and names of children often get shortened in Japan and then get chan tagged on the end rather than san... can do that w/ adults too if they're close enough friends. Thus, Sophia wound up being Fi-chan... but just to me.

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1 way to reduce the nn trend is to make a habit of addressing her by both 1st and mn together and then it can get shortened to just the fn... I've found that very few of the people who've met me after I started going by both fn and mn try to shorten my fn anymore. Thus, she could be addressed by Sophia Jane or Sophia Renee or Sophia Joelle or whatever suits your fancy and then the "nn" would be just calling her Sophia.

We call our Sophia Sophie

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...and also Fifi. I personally don't think of Sophie as its own name, I think of it as simply a shortening of Sophia.

Sophie seems like a pretty natural, automatic shortening of Sophia...

I'd just name her Sophie. It's perfectly acceptable as a full name, and doesn't need to be short for anything really.

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Sophia is nice but if your boyfriend is always going to call her Sophie anyway, you might as well just go with Sophie. Sophie is just as likely to be shortened as Sophia - they both might get called Soph or something like that but it's not inevitable.

Personally, I would pick one or the other. As you said, they are different versions of the same name. I find it extremely silly when people use names like Julie, Sophie, or Marie as nicknames for Julia, Sophia, and Maria. Why would you name your child one thing and then call them a legitimate, full first-name from another language or culture? Perhaps it's because I'm a French-speaker, but Sophia does not sound any more "mature" or "complete" than Sophie, imo.

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I think both Sophia and Sophie are beautiful names. They are popular, but you can't go wrong with such classic names. I'll admit that I have a slight preference for Sophie, but Sophia is gorgeous too. Both of them are perfect without any nicknames.

I work at a dance studio and have seen a lot of Sophia/Sofia/Sophies come trhough recently and only one of them ever had a nickname (Sofia who went by Fifi). They sometimes get call just "Soph" but only as an occational pet name. So I wouldn't really worry about Sophia being shortened. It is not something with a set series of nicknames, nor is it a mouthful to say or write. Naming her Sophia and then just leaving off the "a" every once and a while is certainly an option; but if she is just going to be Sophie most of the time I don't see the point of even having Sophia on the birth certificate since Sophie is a perfectly beautiful name on its own.

Yeah. I know at least one Sophia "Sophie", and I was under the impression that it was pretty common. Sophia "Sophie" is also good in my opinion because Sophia sounds more mature, so she'd have a less 'cute' name to go by if she ever felt like it (unlike Sophie, which is pretty but very little-girl cute).

I think Sofia is prettier-looking than Sofie, but she will probably be called Sofie whether there's an "a" or not. You could always call her "Soph"/"Sof". And I prefer "Sophie" over "Sofie". Just my opinion.

I would probably do the same thing if I was going to use these names. I like the formality of Sophia, but Sophie is cute for every day.

Sophie/Sofie definitely works as a nickname for Sophia/Sofia. I see no problem with using it as a nickname.