# I have been thinking about a name for my baby **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2007, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320 "2007-02-15T07:12:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![MizTina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MizTina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizTina)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/101 "2007-02-18T05:03:47Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Roy. Try making that into a nickname, I dare ya. [/QUOTE] Oi. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/102 "2007-02-18T12:07:48Z")
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima] I think itā€™d be pretty mean (you know, in the abstract sense) to name your child a nickname for their given name. ā€œRobbieā€ ā€œCharlieā€ etc all sound tremendously childish and it wont look very professional when he gets older. [/QUOTE] Gotta chime in on this one. My father in law is named Bobbie. Iā€™m sure it was perfectly adorable when he was a cuddly little infant, but heā€™s 77 years old, and I expect it was an occasional hassle as he worked through his professional life. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/103 "2007-02-18T12:46:38Z")
I just wanted to chime in and say that Iā€™d rather have a nickname-prone name than one that doesnā€™t really allow for any. Like- my name is Isadora. People do shorten it to Iz or Izzy on their own if I donā€™t correct them (which I donā€™t now. When Iā€™m older, Iā€™ll insist on something more grown up). But when I get older, I have options. I can switch to Isa, Dori, Dora, or just insist on nothing but Isadora. My sister is a Margaret and, although sheā€™s Maggie now, she can be practically anything when sheā€™s older. Peggy, Meg, Madge, Margie, Greta, etc. But my other sister is an Anne. And the only options she really has (as far as things you can, say, get your teachers or bosses to call you) are Anne and Annie. Anna if you want to push it. She hates it. She wants options. I donā€™t blame her. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/104 "2007-02-18T13:48:54Z")
[QUOTE=Kricket] Sarahfeena I used to work with a woman named Sally and it wasnā€™t till six months later that I found out her name was really Sarah. And oddly enough the place we worked at our supervisors name was Ricky Joe, everyone called him Rick. Do I know you? [/QUOTE] That is so weirdā€¦were you working in the northwest suburbs of Chicago at the time? Actually, the ā€œSallyā€ wasnā€™t meā€¦I havenā€™t gone by that name since I was probably around 5. But maybe it was the same Rick! ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/105 "2007-02-18T17:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] If you look it up on the really neato [Baby Name Wizard](http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html) [/QUOTE] I looked up my favorite girlā€™s name, which Iā€™ve been holding in reserve for a first-born daughter since I was _twelve_. The graph is a complete flatline until mid-90s to 2005 where it spikes straight up to the top of the chart. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/106 "2007-02-18T18:29:20Z")
I donā€™t think I will make any recommendations since I think we have polar opposite taste in names, given that I think all the names you suggested in your OP (no offense, just different taste) are awful. :X **NajaNivea** you remind me of me. I was eleven (heh I typoā€™d that as ā€œelvenā€, which would be cool, but I never was) when I chose my sonā€™s name, and 23 when I gave birth to him. And yes, I gave him that nameā€“Dominicā€“that I picked at age eleven. At the time, age eleven, I didnā€™t know anyone with that name. Growing up, in high school, I knew one French foreign exchange boy named Dominique, but other than that, I met no Dominics. He was one of three in preschool. šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/107 "2007-02-18T19:29:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] That is so weirdā€¦were you working in the northwest suburbs of Chicago at the time? Actually, the ā€œSallyā€ wasnā€™t meā€¦I havenā€™t gone by that name since I was probably around 5. But maybe it was the same Rick! [/QUOTE] Nope, Iā€™m in Davenport Iowa. How weird though! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/108 "2007-02-18T19:54:07Z")
[QUOTE=Kricket] Nope, Iā€™m in Davenport Iowa. How weird though! [/QUOTE] Total aside: Iā€™ve been there! The 2005 IJA Juggling Festival was there šŸ˜ƒ I designed the t-shirts and [DVD covers](http://www.juggle.org/store/images/2005_H_C_sm.jpg) with that bridge in it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/109 "2007-02-18T20:14:55Z")
List [ul] [li]Thor[/li][li]Kal-El[/li][li]Lex[/li][li]Ming[/li][li]Daniel[/li][/ul] The possibilities are endless. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/110 "2007-02-18T21:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=C3] Devin wouldnā€™t work in Australiaā€¦itā€™s what they call bologna. šŸ™‚ [/QUOTE] Thatā€™s true. The only Devin I know in Australia is the 20something American niece of my dear (American) friend. Her niece gets known as Dev. Iā€™m sure we did a double-take first time we heard the name, but shrugged it off with ā€œthose crazy americans!!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320/111 "2007-02-19T00:56:12Z")
**Blinkingblinking** , I can understand your want to name your child Robbie. But I chime in with the point that it will be a person, not just a baby. Robert is a nice name. Introduce him to everyone as Robbie. He _will_ be nicknamed, up until the point he decides to insist on a particular moniker. Iā€™m a Stefanie. Iā€™ve been a Steffi (not since I was 11 though, unless you ask older rellies), Stef, Tef, Teffali, Teffikins (I donā€™t get it either), Fanie, Fan, Nienie, Stef-Stef, Dehdee (brother couldnā€™t say my name), and the oh-so-hilarious Stiffi. Oh the wit of eight-year-olds, it kills me. That said, Iā€™m named after my grandmother and I almost live with her now, which is really confusing, so Iā€™m Mala Stefanie (little Stefanie). My boyfriend is Jeremy. Jem. Everyone calls him Jem since a friendā€™s mother started the ā€˜Jem by name, Gem by natureā€™ thing. Heā€™s 18 years old and everyone gets really confused when I talk about my boyfriend Jem. Only his older relatives call him Jeremy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-thinking-about-a-name-for-my-baby/392320.md?page=5)