Anonymous wrote:So, I’m legally Jennifer, but have gone by Jennie every day of my life. No one ever asks for clarification unless they have seen my full name in paperwork. I find it much more annoying to have a legal name I don’t use, and all the years of asking teachers or people who saw my paychecks to call me my “nickname”. Please name her Jennie! 😁

Something you might not expect… when my name is read by strangers in public (Starbucks, doctors, someone reading my credit card, etc.) it’s mostly Jeannie. Sometimes Jenine, sometimes Janie, maybe 2-3 times out of every 10 does it come out as Jennie. This doesn’t bother me, I always answer to any of these names immediately. I do not respond to Jennifer, ever, just doesn’t register as someone talking to me.

It says "Jennie" and not Jennifer on your credit card? And your medical records?

My cousin is a Jenny and it’s never been an issue.q

I know a Jenny and Jennie who have those names on their birth certificates. Not ever been a thing. It’s a real name because they are real people. We live on a giant rock floating in infinite space. People need to get over themselves. If you like the name, use it. I think it’s lovely.

I also like Genevieve and you could do Ginevra/Ginny

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Anonymous wrote:Jennie is perfect.

Don’t listen to naysayers.

+1

Name your daughter whatever you’d like to call her.

I was named a name that my parents never intended to call me. Think something like Elenor, and the plan was always to call me Nora.

When I got to college, I got sick of correcting professors and other students when they’d use my legal name, so I just met it slide. And then everyone ended up calling me by my formal name, simply because I didn’t like having to correct people when I first meet them. The problem is that the formal name never felt like my real name… So I’m in my 30s now and I just started transiting back to my nick name.

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Anonymous wrote:That's not a name, that's a nick name

+1

Please, give her a real name.

Like Emily, Kelly, Sadie, Sophie??? How is it any different 🙄

Jenny/Jennie was a common stand alone name way back too.

I’m firm in the name the child what you will call her camp, anything else is a pain. I hate my full name and don’t use it (my family never used it either, but were pressured into the “real” name thing, husband goes by his middle, both are frustrating when we do anything legal. Eventually, you do reach an age where you use what you go by professionally and all your friends/coworkers know your name and you’re generally introducing yourself to new people and now I almost never need to correct anyone, but apologize for not responding to my “real” name if it ever comes up.

So, I’m legally Jennifer, but have gone by Jennie every day of my life. No one ever asks for clarification unless they have seen my full name in paperwork. I find it much more annoying to have a legal name I don’t use, and all the years of asking teachers or people who saw my paychecks to call me my “nickname”. Please name her Jennie! 😁

Something you might not expect… when my name is read by strangers in public (Starbucks, doctors, someone reading my credit card, etc.) it’s mostly Jeannie. Sometimes Jenine, sometimes Janie, maybe 2-3 times out of every 10 does it come out as Jennie. This doesn’t bother me, I always answer to any of these names immediately. I do not respond to Jennifer, ever, just doesn’t register as someone talking to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Jennie Churchill. I love it, OP.

Jennie Garth also just came to mind!

Jennie Garth has the full name of Jennifer.

Does it really matter, though, if no one uses it/knows her by that name?

It absolutely does matter. Pp was using Jennie Garth as an example of someone whose real full name is "Jennie"--and that is not true at all.

Using false information to prove a point makes no sense at all.

Anonymous wrote:I like the Genny spelling if it's a full name. Jennie looks like a diminutive

Genny makes me think of Genny Cream Ale but I spent too much time in Central NY.

Genevieve or Virginia

My great grandmother was named Jennie. I am named after her, but my name is Jessica (in the Jewish tradition of naming after the first letter of the name).

Don’t do it. Genevieve is a great suggestion from a PP.

Anonymous wrote:That's not a name, that's a nick name

+1

Please, give her a real name.

That's not a name, that's a nick name