Twins: one with nickname one not?

[Anonymous]

Seems a bit odd to me

[Anonymous]

I have a Sadie and I never thought of it as a cutesy name and her personality is anything but cutesy. She’s older and the name was’t popular back when I named her and definitely wasnt considered cutesy. Interesting to hear that so many people feel that way now.

I think you’re overthinking the issue. But I’m also not a fan of using real names as nicknames. Like I never understood why you would name a kid John and call them Jack. Sade as a nickname for Sadie or Johnny as a nickname for John, fine. But each to their own

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Name her what you want to call her. There is nothing controversial about the name Sadie. I have one of these nicknames used as my name, and frankly I would rather my nickname have been my name. When you get older and have to use your real name professionally, you don’t know what to introduce yourself as. Or you just kind of lose one.

This.

I’m over 60, and still have to pause when greeting someone over the phone to think about whether they know me by my given name or my nickname.

I made sure to give my kid a name that is very, very hard to nickname. I hate nicknames. Can you tell? Name her Sadie.

And I feel the exact opposite. I was named Sharon, and obviously have no nickname. I hated my name, and hated not having the option of using a nickname. My kids have long names that can have variations to them.

This post is so bizarre to me. I have two friends named Sharon. One goes by Shari. The other is Sherry. You really went through life wanting a nickname for Sharon but not being able to figure one out?

And the funniest thing is that I’m the prior PP who hates nicknames and spent 60 years trying to escape my childish nickname and have always had to pause when greeting people, and my given name is Sha...

Yeah.

I think it is quite a nice name.

Can’t stop laughing! Different strokes, 20:07!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a Sadie and I never thought of it as a cutesy name and her personality is anything but cutesy. She’s older and the name was’t popular back when I named her and definitely wasnt considered cutesy. Interesting to hear that so many people feel that way now.

I think you’re overthinking the issue. But I’m also not a fan of using real names as nicknames. Like I never understood why you would name a kid John and call them Jack. Sade as a nickname for Sadie or Johnny as a nickname for John, fine. But each to their own

NP. Most -ie names are cutesy, not that it’s a bad thing.

OP, you’re fine. Just respect their wishes, even if you don’t like them.

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Anonymous wrote:Name her what you want to call her. There is nothing controversial about the name Sadie. I have one of these nicknames used as my name, and frankly I would rather my nickname have been my name. When you get older and have to use your real name professionally, you don’t know what to introduce yourself as. Or you just kind of lose one.

This.

I’m over 60, and still have to pause when greeting someone over the phone to think about whether they know me by my given name or my nickname.

I made sure to give my kid a name that is very, very hard to nickname. I hate nicknames. Can you tell? Name her Sadie.

And I feel the exact opposite. I was named Sharon, and obviously have no nickname. I hated my name, and hated not having the option of using a nickname. My kids have long names that can have variations to them.

You can have any nn or change your name.

[Anonymous]

My daughter has two friends named Caroline. One goes by Kiki and one goes by Cece (pronounced see-see). I think both are super cute. Sadie and Cece would be really cute

[Anonymous]

We have both twins names for which we liked the nicknames. Then in middle school, one decided that they wanted to use their full name. So now we have one with a nickname and one not. What are you going to do, insist that they both do the same?

Ease up the grip a little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a Sadie and I never thought of it as a cutesy name and her personality is anything but cutesy. She’s older and the name was’t popular back when I named her and definitely wasnt considered cutesy. Interesting to hear that so many people feel that way now.

I think you’re overthinking the issue. But I’m also not a fan of using real names as nicknames. Like I never understood why you would name a kid John and call them Jack. Sade as a nickname for Sadie or Johnny as a nickname for John, fine. But each to their own

NP You do this when you have two people with the same name For example John ( father) and John jr ( Jack)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter has two friends named Caroline. One goes by Kiki and one goes by Cece (pronounced see-see). I think both are super cute. Sadie and Cece would be really cute

Please don’t name a set of twins Sadie and Cece. Those names are waaaaay too close.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see anything wrong with it.

FWIW, if you really, really hate Carrie, I’d get some input from adult Carolines about how common it is to get nicknamed that by peers.

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Anonymous wrote:Name her what you want to call her. There is nothing controversial about the name Sadie. I have one of these nicknames used as my name, and frankly I would rather my nickname have been my name. When you get older and have to use your real name professionally, you don’t know what to introduce yourself as. Or you just kind of lose one.

This.

I’m over 60, and still have to pause when greeting someone over the phone to think about whether they know me by my given name or my nickname.

I made sure to give my kid a name that is very, very hard to nickname. I hate nicknames. Can you tell? Name her Sadie.

And I feel the exact opposite. I was named Sharon, and obviously have no nickname. I hated my name, and hated not having the option of using a nickname. My kids have long names that can have variations to them.

You can have any nn or change your name.

You say this like it’s just super easy to change your first name. Changing last name is enough of a pain in the neck.

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Anonymous wrote:I would just name her Sadie. My husband has a nickname (that sounds like a real name) that is not related to his first legal name and he complains all the time about it.

All legal docs, professional stuff. drs appointments, etc are in his full name but he has to explain over and over what his nickname is when people call him by his full name. People get confused when they think his nickname is is real name and see a different full legal name on documents.

Sometimes he just doesn't correct people because he is so tired of doing it. He has even considered legally changing his name to his nickname but that would be a huge hassle.

Just name her the name you are going to use.

We gave my son a family name (think numbered names) but the men in our family don’t actually use or have numbers in their names. We didn’t want another Billy/Will whatever so we call him a derivative nn (like Liam for William) and ugh this post has me worried about his 30 old self! Now I’m dying to know how DH’s name and how close it is to his given name (ours has two letters the same, and is a standalone name).

[Anonymous]

I think it is fine. I like a pps suggestion of Callie. But I will say that we named one of my kids Evelyn thinking we would call her Evie (pronounced ee vee) but once she was born we call her Evelyn all the time.

I have another daughter Juliette. I hate / hated the nickname Jules (growing on me). But we call her Jujubee in the family.

Finally, my sister is Jennifer. She was Jen both professionally and growing up. Her husband and a small group of people call her Jenny (which my dad hated as a name and never called her that but she fell into the nickname after college).

All this to say that you should pick names you like because nicknames change.

[Anonymous]

These are both beautiful names. Usually, it would bother me to have one nickname and one non-nickname. But I like these a lot.

Also, their personalities might motivate nicknames that you aren't even considering yet. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

Twin mom here. It doesn't matter if one has a nickname or not. But if you already know you will call her Sadie, why wouldn't you just name her that? Also FWIW, nicknames tend to develop by themselves....so I would keep an open mind about what you will call them/what they want to be called.