My daughter is Anna, and no one has ever shortened it to Ann.

They are not the same name.
Anne is pronounced like Ann: an
Anna is prounced an-uh.

Annie is a nickname for Ann/Anne but I had an Irish great-grandmother whose given name was Annie.

I've never met an Anna who used the Annie nickname.

Anne/Anna/Annie arw family names for me. I love Anne. Classic but not common anymore.

Anonymous wrote:I love Anna, and if you do choose Anne, I prefer an E.

The only way to keep it from getting shortened is to politely, but consistently correct people. Once corrected, people generally try to get the name correct.

- Christina, who is not Chris, Christine, Kristy, etc.

Yes, Anne is much nicer with an e. Much more elegant, as Anne Shirley would say.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your husband's reasoning. They are literally not the same name.

+1

Plus nicknames are usually diminutives. So you might get Annie, but not Ann(e)

Anna is not a long name -- people aren't going to shorten it to Ann. My DD's name is long (9 letters) and it gets shortened to a lot of things), but you should be just fine.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your husband's reasoning. They are literally not the same name.

Thank you sincerely for the validation-- i felt like I was going crazy.

I don't understand your husband's reasoning. They are literally not the same name.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is Anne nn Annie. Anne and Anna are not the same name, but they can take the same nicknames.

If he needs a boy example of names that are very similar or contain many of the same letters but are not the same - Jude and Judah, Mike and Micah, Leo and Leon, etc.

Thank you!

I love Anna, and if you do choose Anne, I prefer an E.

The only way to keep it from getting shortened is to politely, but consistently correct people. Once corrected, people generally try to get the name correct.

- Christina, who is not Chris, Christine, Kristy, etc.

I believe they are forms of the same name. Both are beautiful names. We have lots of women named Anna and Anne in my family, going back to a 4x great grandmother named Susannah. Hannah is another version of the same name.

Whichever you choose, you can’t go wrong with these names. They’re all lovely.

My daughter is Anne nn Annie. Anne and Anna are not the same name, but they can take the same nicknames.

If he needs a boy example of names that are very similar or contain many of the same letters but are not the same - Jude and Judah, Mike and Micah, Leo and Leon, etc.

All the people who go by Anne I know are named Anne, or something like Anne-Marie. I don't know any one named Anna who goes by Anne.

Anna is lovely. I think Anne is too.

I personally love Annie!
Of course, there is a chance she would be nn "Ann" but it is already a short name, so less likely, imo. I like Anna, too. Classic but not overused.

Anne is boring. Anna is lovely.

we were considering the name Anna if our baby is a girl but my husband saw the letters Ann typed out and made a comment that it's the same name...

I always thought of Anna/Ann(e) as different names (from same origin), like Julie and Julia or Jenna and Jen/Jennifer. He kept asking for a male equivalent like that and I can't think of one.

If we choose Anna how likely is it that people will nickname to Anne? We both like the nickname Annie but I'm not a huge fan of Anne...