Nicknames/short names that don't make sense

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nellie for Helen

You don't see how that works?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nellie for Helen

You don't see how that works?

I'm filing that for later in case I have a girl. I love both names

[Anonymous]

So a family joke is a better reason to have a nickname that "doesn't make sense" by your standards, but choosing a nickname that is related to a name in some way does? That's ridiculous.

Jordan starts to "Jo" and ends with "Dan." I don't see why Jo and Danny (Dan probably more than Danny) are that odd.

Plus, who cares? Why would you start a thread like this? You obviously don't want to "pick on" people who have "cute" reasons for using nicknames, but you do want to pick on other people, huh?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nellie for Helen

You don't see how that works?

I don't see it either, but I know that people use that.

[Anonymous]

Jack for Hyacinth (man's name) ... not until I was older did I understand

[Anonymous]

I love those old-fashioned, non-obvious nicknames, like Molly or Polly for Mary, Patsy for Martha, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dick and Richard

Jack and John

Peggy and Margaret

Chuck and Charles

Betsy and Elizabeth

Nancy and Ann. Weird...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dick and Richard

Jack and John

Peggy and Margaret

Chuck and Charles

Betsy and Elizabeth

Betty and Elizabeth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nellie for Helen

You don't see how that works?

I get it -- it's Helen backwards. It's still weird though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jack for Hyacinth (man's name) ... not until I was older did I understand

I don't get it...

[Anonymous]

Ned for Edmund.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So a family joke is a better reason to have a nickname that "doesn't make sense" by your standards, but choosing a nickname that is related to a name in some way does? That's ridiculous.

Jordan starts to "Jo" and ends with "Dan." I don't see why Jo and Danny (Dan probably more than Danny) are that odd.

Plus, who cares? Why would you start a thread like this? You obviously don't want to "pick on" people who have "cute" reasons for using nicknames, but you do want to pick on other people, huh?

The reason is that a family joke has a reason and came about naturally. Chuck = the kid reminded his sister of a woodchuck. Sia because the brother couldn't pronounce the name. So these naturally happened and have a cute story.

Danny for Jordan is annoying because it's so typical dcum and doesn't come about naturally. "Let's see, I'm going to name him Jordan but insist that people call him Danny, same amount of syllables but I just like the sound of Danny but would rather name him a totally different name, just to be annoying and "unique." Name him Daniel or Dan or Danny if you like the damn name Danny.

Same goes for the new born girl I met last week. "Her name is Elizabeth but we're going to call her Timmy" WHAT? "ooooh, that's cute. How'd you come up with that?" "We just thought it was a cute name" ok...........


Main point, these nicknames that don't naturally occur and are pushed on children and their teachers and friends, are used to be unique or some other way of making a point by the parents (we had a girl, chose a traditional female name but decided to insist that people call her Timmy because we want to make sure everyone knows that we're "feminists"). If you don't like this thread, move on.

[Anonymous]

For a couple of generations my family has used the full name for all outside the family purposes but very inside baseball nicknames (often multiple ones for the same person) that are used exclusively within the family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So a family joke is a better reason to have a nickname that "doesn't make sense" by your standards, but choosing a nickname that is related to a name in some way does? That's ridiculous.

Jordan starts to "Jo" and ends with "Dan." I don't see why Jo and Danny (Dan probably more than Danny) are that odd.

Plus, who cares? Why would you start a thread like this? You obviously don't want to "pick on" people who have "cute" reasons for using nicknames, but you do want to pick on other people, huh?

The reason is that a family joke has a reason and came about naturally. Chuck = the kid reminded his sister of a woodchuck. Sia because the brother couldn't pronounce the name. So these naturally happened and have a cute story.

Danny for Jordan is annoying because it's so typical dcum and doesn't come about naturally. "Let's see, I'm going to name him Jordan but insist that people call him Danny, same amount of syllables but I just like the sound of Danny but would rather name him a totally different name, just to be annoying and "unique." Name him Daniel or Dan or Danny if you like the damn name Danny.

Same goes for the new born girl I met last week. "Her name is Elizabeth but we're going to call her Timmy" WHAT? "ooooh, that's cute. How'd you come up with that?" "We just thought it was a cute name" ok...........


Main point, these nicknames that don't naturally occur and are pushed on children and their teachers and friends, are used to be unique or some other way of making a point by the parents (we had a girl, chose a traditional female name but decided to insist that people call her Timmy because we want to make sure everyone knows that we're "feminists"). If you don't like this thread, move on.

Fair enough, but almost every nickname has a REASON. The parents might not explain it all, but they probably have a reason for those nicknames. Maybe Jordan is a family name, but they didn't actually want to call their kid Jordan every day. Or maybe a kid is called Thomas John and goes by T.J. (or even Teejay) because of his initials. These are WAY more logical and natural than calling someone Chuck because a kid thought the baby looked like a woodchuck. Seriously?

And it doesn't really seem "cute" that someone changed what their child was called simply because her brother couldn't pronounce her name at the moment she was born and he was 2 years old. That seems silly. Should we also call water "wawa" forever because that's what he says, too?

Sorry, but I think you are being overly judgmental and pretty much have it backwards about what makes sense and what doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Polly for Mary
Tess for Elizabeth
Sasha for Alexandra or Alexander
Daisy for Margaret
Bunny for Edmund