I'm curious, when you went off to college how did you introduce yourself to others? When you started your first job? |
Just call him sweetie pie or something else instead of Johnny. ![]() And congrats! |
OP, Joey and Johnny is fine. If you like nickname, give it to them both. What happen when the little Joey or John asks you why he doesn't have a nickname and vice versa. Do you want to tell them that DCUM persuaded you to do so?
Go with your instinct and name the little boy, Johnny. You/he can change it in middle/high school or college, whatever. People are going to judge you, regardless. Joey and Johnny is your naming style, and you need to stand up for it. |
How is Jack or Henry pretentious? |
Maybe it's just me but I know a family with 2 kids with similar matchy -Y sounding nicknames and i always mix the kids up and call one the other's name. |
I think it's fine - we have a John and he is sometimes Johnny, but John John was another nickname he got at school and I prefer now use that.
Mh was worried about using the name James b/c of Jimmy Johns, not that we'd have used the nn Jim. |
Ok that’s not true. Joseph was #19 on the latest SS name list, right behind Henry. John was #27. Both names still quite common. Nice names though. I considered both names but had a girl. |
Don’t do it. It sounds totally Jersey Shore. |
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I think it's fine. But I prefer Jonathan to John for the full name. |
I think it's fine. But I don't like Johnny. Just call your kids John or John John or even Jay for short. |
Same. |
I think Joey sounds Jersey Shore, but maybe that's because one side of my family is Italian from Jersey, and I have a cousin named Joey (still called Joey, at least by family despite being 50-something). It also reminds me of Joey from Friends (although they were NY Italian not Jersey Italian). |
I think all variation of the names are absolutely cute and adorable. |