Name question ?

[brainpause]

The first person that calls me Lawrence will be shot on the spot!

Larry (given name)

[MommaMia]

The first person that calls me Lawrence will be shot on the spot!

Larry (given name)

ummmmmmmmm.........LAWRENCE!


 :rolleyes: hehehehehhehe

[birol]

Does every given name has a nick name which goes with it ?

[MommaMia]

Does every given name has a nick name which goes with it ?

Nope... especially not if the given name is what is typically thought of as a nick name. Or if the given name is a really short, simple name like DDs... Zoe and Lea or DS, Noah.

[Michicampers]

Does every given name has a nick name which goes with it ?

Mine is just Dawn, unless I am in a really bad mood, at which time DH calls me Dark Dawn :Z .

[tlhdoc]

No nick name for me, Tracy is my given name.  I did drop my middle name when I got married so I only have a first and last name.

[tlhdoc]

We had friends who named their children-Debby, Cindy, Donald Jr. (called Buddy), Randy and Barbie.

Funny story.  Randy's best friend was in the military stationed in England.  The friend fell in love and married an English woman.  Randy went to England to be the best man.

In England Randy is not a name,  but an adjective
1 chiefly Scottish : having a coarse manner
2 : LUSTFUL, LECHEROUS  :yikes:

Randy was teased a lot in England.

[vjm1639]

My son is Bo...and I don't think we ever enrolled him in a school, ball team, or anything where they didn't say, "No, we need his REAL name."
 
Actually, Vicki is just Vicki...not Victoria,  and Bill...is NOT for William..his real name is Billy.  ;>

[startx]

Oh the name game, it's a big responsibility isn't it?  Something that isn't too serious for childhood, but doesn't seem to flippant when they are adults.  I have known several people that had names as adults that were a bit embarrasing.  I mean grown men shouldn't be called Rickie, but they are if that is their given name.  Ok, so you want a Rickie, name the poor kid Richard, and call him Rickie, then at least when he is an adult he can be Richard if he wants.

Birol, the nicknames I think are cultural.  Culturally many formal names have common nicknames.  Actually a nickname caused us to change our son's middle name, we were to name him Kaleb William, but when my MIL said oh good, I'll call him Willy, I decided his name would be Kaleb Alexander.  Alex is a lot better than Willy in my humble opinion, but it didn't matter, he's Kaleb, doesn't go by a middle name, and Kaleb is too short to make into a nickname.

The girls have rather long names, and we did shorten Kaitlind to Kaity for the longest time, but when she started school she insisted her name was Kaitlind, so we are pretty much out of the habit of calling her Kaity, and she reminds us if we slip.

Kayleigh already kind of sounds like a nickname, and some of the family tried calling Kamryn Kami, but it just didn't fit, so they pretty much dropped it.  She has another nickname though that that she will probably grow to hate, Kayleigh can't enunciate Kamryn, and ends up sounding like Kitten, the older kids picked up on it, and she is kitten to most of the family.  I see many a fight coming in the future as she tries to make them stop calling her kitten.  Kayleigh is a lot closer to saying Kamryn now, but the nickname has already stuck.

[B-flat]

Well, this will probably make some folks laugh, but don't name your dog with anything similar to what one of the children's name sounds like.....I would say something to the dog and my daughter would be on the other end of the house and ask  what I wanted.  Go figure. :J    :rolleyes:

[NightOwl]

MY DH's actual name is  "Billy"  (yo, LARRY--we understand!) and someone is always thinking they are clever and calling him "William" He stopped correcting them long ago--it was a losing battle.  This "Y ending"  is a very common thing to do in the South--name a boy with what the rest of us might think of as a nickname.  There are lots o grown men around here named things like Tommmy and Billy and Bobby and Johnny  and, yes, Larry, and they are NOT nicknames.

And girls here get called --"Willeen" for instance or Joeleen or Carleen, all named for their fathers.  and  Billy has a cousin with the unusual name of "Neecis"  

There are also some men in the area with names that are actually initials like C O  and O B (their  REAL names) and I went to school in Coral Gables with a kid named J R (no, not Jr, but J R (not initials!)


Names are a funny thing.  Very personal and very important and I keep running into people (especially in this  area)  who have really weird or hideous first names.  If I had been them, I'd have grown up to axe-murder my parents..

For a year in a Chicago suburb we lived near some people named  Sinovovich and you can imagine how the school kids pronounced THAT--their little boy was always getting into fights.)  And  we  know some people  locally whose last name is Hunsucker and folks  made  fun of their name and some of them ended up in trouble with the law--even in  jail.  And you have to wonder-----

[birol]

Touchy subject I never thought I would learn this much

[brainpause]

Interesting points, Elisa.

Matter of fact, I had a few people that, when I was younger, called me Larry Joe (and my middle name is Mark). Must be a southern thang.

I also know a J.W. (real name, doesn't stand for anything.) I also know a "John C. Hall." That may not sound unusual, but he is known as "John C," or, "John See." He is an older fellow, and I have known John C for as long as I can remember.

Larry