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I mean, I get what you mean about the sounds, but you can also have certain associations with the "name play" nicknames. They can have a really different feel. Like, I don't like people to call me Cathy. I like my name, including the emphasized first syllable, and I don't necessarily hate the sound of Cathy. It just sounds like a baby boomer name to me and doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't feel like my name at all, even though it's a natural pet name for it. The OP said she knows lots of Addies so it has a "popular" association to her that Adelaide doesn't have. So I think liking or not liking a NN can go beyond the sound itself.

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Also, I think I call the name someone goes by (if it's not their full name) a nickname and the "name play" names pet names.

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