Nick name or full name?

LikeAnOcean

Do you go by your nick name or full name?


My legal name is James.. I started going by Jim when I was a young kid. I'm not sure why.

What is the point of nick names? Everyone refers to me by my nick name.

Thorns2010

Name is Matthew, most people aside from my family call me Matt. Which is fine, but what really bugs me is when people send me emails or letters or whatever and they just have Matt.

I don't know why, but it really bugs me!!!

gobrowns19

My opinion is that nick names are used because people like one syllable names. My birth certificate says Steven but i'm called Steve. Does that count?

Thorns2010

gobrowns19 wrote:

My opinion is that nick names are used because people like one syllable names. My birth certificate says Steven but i'm called Steve. Does that count?

I like two syllable names, well at least with the written form of my name.

zenith

my full name is lynette - but people who have known me since i was little call me lindy - i also have a group that dont know me well enough, and still call me lynette - and then at work, even tho i sign things off as lynette, i get a few that reply or simply assume to call me lyn, which i hate!!

i also get nett, netty too tho

all - depends where, when, how and how much i like you i think

Wilds

Some people call me Nate. I prefer that in general, but like Nathan when written out.

My favorite nickname however is when people call me by my last name. That is quite often.

-Wilds

redrock

gobrowns19 wrote:

My opinion is that nick names are used because people like one syllable names.

I think you may be right! My name is Rita (how difficult is that?). I hate it when I am called 'Riet' - bloody lazy people if you ask me.

Also, my daughter's name is Gabrielle. I love the name (obviously) and so does she (luckily). She is almost automatically called Gaby (which she doesn't mind too much) - even my her teachers (which I hate) or even Gabs! How ugly is Gabs?!?!

surfanddestroy

My name is Tamara and I hate people shortening it, I will not answer people if they call me Tam, or Tammy.
I sometimes get Teep as my initials are TP I don't mind that one so much.

Jennytree

I was christened Jennifer, but most people call me Jenny or Jen or J. I never get called Jennifer really, unless I'm in an official gov. office or the doctors. I even sign Jenny when signing official documents and the likes - force of habit. Some friends go mad with the J thing... J Bog, J Lo, Jizzle...

Ridin The Wave

I have a ton of nicknames.....the two most common are my last name and Brutes.....my actual name is Jody.

Funny part about being called my last name though is that it rhymes with Katie and there are a few people that still call me Katie because they think that's what everybody else is saying.

Thoughts_Arrive

I get called by my nickname by most people who know me.
I hate being called by my surname like I did in high school, used to piss me off.
I also dislike people calling me by my proper name, it's very formal to me if they do.

Sian-of-the-dead

My name - Siân - cannot be shortened, which is why my parents named me that.

Dave's sister calls me Stan though.

redrock

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Dave's sister calls me Stan though.

Stan is good....

Sian-of-the-dead

redrock wrote:

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Dave's sister calls me Stan though.

Stan is good....

Strangely, I quite like it :oops:

It came about because in my last job, my name on my payslip was typed in capitals. The 'I' always seemed to have the bottom line missing so my name appeared as STAN

megatron

names chris but i chuckle when i hear it..known as
soft jones, softo milic, rott nuge, tipper jones, cj, but most common is jones
long long story

battan1120

My name is James.People that I grew up w/ call me Jimmy.Mom and friends at work call me Jimbo.I introduce myself as Jim.Don't call me James.

Sian-of-the-dead

battan1120 wrote:

My name is James.People that I grew up w/ call me Jimmy.Mom and friends at work call me Jimbo.I introduce myself as Jim.Don't call me James.

If I have a son, i'm gonna call him James. He'll be free to shorten it to Jim if he wants to but i'll still call him James... I'm his mother!

Jill-o

Well my name is Jillian but I prefer Jill just because no one can pronounce Jillian correctly. Everyone wants to call me Julian...which makes me mad cause it's a boys name. When I started my current job there was already a Jill working in the same department (customer service) so I've had to go by Jillian. Besides being called Julian most of the time, I get Joann a lot. I've even been called Vivian and Sylvia. It's incredibly annoying.

Our receptionist one time tried to tell a customer how to pronounce my name and said it's like the names Jill and Ian but together. I got a fax later that day to ATTN: Jill Ian.... :roll:

iamsam_pj

i usually go by sam...it's what all of my friends call me. my parents call me samantha, and that is also how i answer the phone at work b/c it sounds more professional and there's another sam. my sister has a crazy nickname for me that she's called me her whole life and i won't let her call me anything else, "mankey". i think it started as "manthy" and somehow evolved.

i'm fine with most nicknames that people throw out there...sambo, j...as long as they don't call me sammy!! i hate that and i'm not sure why??!

decides2dream

no nick-name here. my mother hates nick-names and was sure to give all 3 of her daughters names that have no abbreviations. my husband has a one syllable name, so yes...no nick-name there either. :P

LikeAnOcean

battan1120 wrote:

My name is James.People that I grew up w/ call me Jimmy.Mom and friends at work call me Jimbo.I introduce myself as Jim.Don't call me James.

See I don't mind being called Jim. But James seems more grown up and sophisticated to me.. Think I'll let my drinking buddies call me Jim, and my hot dates call me by James.