My name is Caroline, and these are the nicknames I have :

Caz - the most popular one, mum uses this one on me.

Line - ( as in draw the Line ) boyfriend uses this

Lineham - best friend uses this one!

Ca - (as in Kaa ) used at work

That's it! My most preferred is Line, I do get fed up of being called Caroline, as it can sometimes sound long and in some cases, whiny.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carla
Carlotta
Carol
Linnie
Lollie

Seriously? Why would you choose a beautiful name like Caroline and call her "Carlotta?" Which is a) ugly and b) not a nickname for Caroline.

also agree

Anonymous wrote:Just call her Caroline and people will get back to that eventually. It's a great name.

-- Mom of a 2 year old Caroline who is always "C" in texts but Caroline when spoken.

agree.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carla
Carlotta
Carol
Linnie
Lollie

Seriously? Why would you choose a beautiful name like Caroline and call her "Carlotta?" Which is a) ugly and b) not a nickname for Caroline.

Why not? Just as appropriate as cece or carly, by the way, has nothing to do with Caroline. That's the point... it's made up name.

Nicknames are not inevitable, and who knows what will organically come up. My niece is named Abigail and my sister figured she would likely end up being Abby at school, although she did not necessarily want that. Ten years later, she is Abigail at school and "Gaily" (always spoken, almost never in written form) around family. I would not feel compelled to choose or give in to a nickname. As PP said, if someone else refers to her as CeCe in email or spoken, there's no need to correct them, but that doesn't mean you have to call her that.

That being said, we considered Caroline/Carolina (DH is Hispanic) for one of our daughters and figured her nickname--if she ever had one--would be Caro.

My Caroline doesn't have a nickname.

Most Carolines I know do not use a nickname. Just revert to calling her Caroline (and yes, write it out if you are committed to skipping the nickname!) and it will go from there.

Thank said, I do like Ceci as a nickname but think of it as a Cecilia name, not a Caroline name.

I think first off, never abbreviate her name again in any email. Just got to break the visual-nickname connection.

And if someone refers to her as CC or CeCe in an email, in your reply don't mention it, but somehow get "Caroline" in the text of your reply.

e.g.
"…and do you think you and CeCe would like to come over on Saturday?"

"Sure, Caroline and I both have 10-1 free on Saturday; it would be really fun!…."

If you were going with a nickname, I would go with Caro, Lina or Lynn.

However, I don't see it as inevitable. We have twin sons and we frequently use their initials in email and sometimes FB. But in person, we only call them their full names. Other than preschool teachers (who have their own pet nicknames for all of the kids), no one else calls them by their initials. Just call her only by Caroline and let others call her what they will. When she gets to 2-3, she'll determine what version of the various names that people call her that she wants to be called and that will carry a lot more force than what you want.

I like the Caro suggestion.

My cousin is a Caroline and her last name also starts with C, so CC developed pretty quickly as a nickname. But I'd say it's more of a pet name rather than a nickname, as only family and very close friends call her that, and she'd never introduce herself as CC the way a Katherine might introduce herself as Kate.

I think with any longer name it's inevitable that people are going to occasionally want to have a short cut, but that doesn't mean that the nickname needs to replace the original.

Friends with Carolines call them Nina and Lina (Lee-na).

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Anonymous wrote:Nicknames are definitely not inevitable. We have an Elizabeth and she has always been Elizabeth.

+1, from a Catherine whose parents always called her that, and then so did everyone else.

I have a 12 yo Caroline who has never been called anything else. We never gave her a nickname and no one else has attempted to do so. FWIW, there are many straight up Carolines in her school. It isn't at all unusual.