Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind that parents do not have full control of a nn. All it takes is a kindergarten teacher to call her a different version or she decides that Kiki is a silly name and she will become something else.

Agreed. My parents chose my name because of the nickname they wanted to call me. They used it as well as some family friends. Otherwise at school and amongst my friends, I went by my full name or a nickname they had come up with. By middle school, I was pretty insistent that my parents stop calling me by the nickname.

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised that no one has said Kerensa yet. It’s a cute Cornish name that supposedly means love.

Maybe because very few people have ever heard of this name? I certainly haven't. I'm laughing at the idea that you thought it would be on the tip of everyone's tongue.

Kalea (pronounced kah-lay-uh)
Kamea (pronounced kah-may-uh)
Karis (pronounced care-is)
Kataleya
Katya
Kayleen/Kaylene
Kimora
Kiyomi

KeLarla

I highly suggest Keira

Like Keira Knightly

It has the same first two letters so the nn makes sense, it's a pretty name, it's known, it fits a grown up.

KEEVA
KELLY
KEL(L)ISTA/KAL(L)ISTA
KERISSA/KARISSA
KAIA
KYRA

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised that no one has said Kerensa yet. It’s a cute Cornish name that supposedly means love.

It’s probably too close to Karen.

Kirsten Dunst goes by Kiki.

Are you an interracial couple? This is an uncommon name for a white woman. She will be assumed to be a black woman. I thought I’d just let you know the social dynamics.

Kiara/Kiarra
Kiana/Kianna
Keona/Keonna

I know a Kiki and she’s Christina. Kendal, Kendra, Kelsey, Kathryn.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get this. People obsessed with a nickname who worked backwards from that. Odd and try hard.

It’s because parents are told by other people that they need to give their kid a “real name”, so they feel like they can’t just give the kid the name they actually want. Not really tryhard.

We experienced this with our daughter. We wanted to name her Lizzie but had others tell us that she needs a formal name. According to them, she absolutely needed to legally be Elizabeth (or some other long name).

Us too. We were asked what our son’s actual name was going to be when we announced his name as Nico before he was born.

Have you googled KeKe?

Keep in mind that parents do not have full control of a nn. All it takes is a kindergarten teacher to call her a different version or she decides that Kiki is a silly name and she will become something else.

If you want everybody to call her Keke, name her Keke. It's fine. If you are worried about having something to put on a resume, give her a western middle name and she can be K. Elizabeth Smith or whatever.

If it's more about what you call her, name her Elizabeth, family calls her Keke. Also fine, but in that case she's less likely to use Keke in school. (I have a Charlotte-goes-by-Betsy situation and it's harder for the nickname to get traction in school.)