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Having grown up with a name like Heather--which is rather difficult to shorten, lol--I tend to prefer names that do not have obvious nn's (though not exclusively). My friends and family members that have names that are usually shortened that do not want them shortened have struggled with this. My ex-fiance was Thomas, not Tom or Tommy, and people often would call him one of the latter two anyway. :-/ Then there are some names where I prefer the nn to the full name (i.e. Benjamin nn Ben and Margaret nn just about any of them :b) but I'm such a 'purist' that I couldn't bring myself not to use the "full" name. LOL. So would I use a name that had an obvious nn I didn't like? Maybe not. I loved Daniel for years and years and besides it being so overused, one of my big qualms with it was the nn's Dan and Danny. If I absolutely adored a name, though, I probably wouldn't let that stop me, can't say for sure.