The name we picked took an unexpected turn

[Anonymous]

DH and I fell in love with the name Nicole and named our second daughter that. We figured she might choose to go by Nikki and agreed it would be fine with us. We never figured her older sister wouldn't be able to say Nicole and would call her Colie. (Rhymes with solely) We do not love Colie, to say the least. It hadn't even occurred to us that her name could go in that direction. Just a word of caution to not only consider possible nicknames you see, but that others might see.

[Anonymous]

Wow this is so wise

[Anonymous]

I mean, little kids have trouble saying pretty much every name. My niece is Anna and she was Non-Non to her older sister for a while. There really is no way to prevent it and no way to “baby proof” a name. Chances are that Colie won’t stick.

[Anonymous]

I'm Jessica. My little sister called me Guckika for years.

[Anonymous]

The little one will learn to say Nicole.

[Anonymous]

I called my little brother "Guy" forever because he was the guy and I was the girl (Guy was in no way derived from his name and no one even knows why I picked Guy instead of Boy). Kids are weird and everyone survived.

[Anonymous]

If this is important to you also don't name your baby something that starts with "R". My brother is a Ryan who called himself Wyan for years. R is one of the last sounds to develop.

[Anonymous]

I was Weetha until my brother got speech therapy.

[Anonymous]

I’m English speaking and my husband was Spanish speaking growing up so l tried to pick a name that would sound good in both languages for the sake of both sets of relatives. The name is Clyde. Claudio is a name in Spanish. His mom tried but inevitably would end up calling him Cloud.

My MIL has passed on but years later when he’s naughty or annoying he still gets called Cloud by me and an old friend who was around my MIL a lot. So it was a name failure in one sense but still a fond memory of my MIL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m English speaking and my husband was Spanish speaking growing up so l tried to pick a name that would sound good in both languages for the sake of both sets of relatives. The name is Clyde. Claudio is a name in Spanish. His mom tried but inevitably would end up calling him Cloud.

My MIL has passed on but years later when he’s naughty or annoying he still gets called Cloud by me and an old friend who was around my MIL a lot. So it was a name failure in one sense but still a fond memory of my MIL.

[Anonymous]

"Stop calling me that! My name's ____"
DD exaggerated that younger brother got her name wrong. He then said it perfectly. And from then on.

[Anonymous]

meant exasperated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow this is so wise

😂😂

OP, you learned the hard way that parents don’t always get to pick nicknames.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s cute.

[Anonymous]

Reminds me of some friends of my mom who were very particular about their grandparent names. I can’t remember what the grandmother’s preferred nickname was, but the grandfather was supposed to be called Poppy. Despite the best efforts of everyone involved, the grandchild in question ended up mangling both names. Again, I’m not sure what the grandmother ended up being called, but Poppy was transformed to Potty.

Colie is pretty great in comparison.

FWIW, I come from a family of nicknames and while I went by a number of them growing up, as an adult I reverted to my legal name to simplify things. You can still call her Nicole or Nikki and the sister may adapt or forevermore use Colie as a special sister name unique to her. Eventually the child will make her preferences known and you never know how it will end up.