There are plenty of adults known as ‘Robbie’. Robbie Williams, Robbie Fowler.
What about ‘Bruce’, ‘Shane’, ‘Wayne’ ? They are made into nicknames are they?
Or is that ‘boof’ ?
I got ‘Darcy’ from ‘Pride and Prejudice’ because I do not like the name ‘Fitzwilliam’ as a first name.
Thankyou. I got John-Paul from a book I just read about a Polish boy being named after the Pope
I don’t remember. I’ll have to ask my mother about it.
‘Jack’ is about the most popular name for a baby boy in Australia at the moment.
The captain of the Australian cricket team is known as ‘Ricky’.
I agree though that it is a little kid’s name. Not a name for a 31 year old
Meet my mates Bazza, Shazza and Wazza. Or maybe Brucie, Bruiser, Shane-o, Waynie or Wayn-o.
But you are not serious are you?
People with names of Shane, Wayne, Bruce, Adam Craig have nicknames made from their last names do not they?
They are usually very creative - Glichrist is called Gilly, and Fleming is called ‘Flemo’, Warne is called ‘Warnie’ Thomson is called 'Thomo.
Of course one member of the team is always called ‘boof’ for some reason.
Do people down there only get nicks from names?
Middlebro: Crazy Wolf (one of the words in our lastnames means wolf in Basque), Edusup (short for Ed Survival), Pockets (he’s one of those guys whose pockets look like Mary Poppins’ bag)… as well as several variations on his first and last names.
One of my classmates had a pretty common firstname (still, we only had two in our class) and a long lastname, we called him by half his lastname. If you called his home and didn’t remember to ask for him by full firstname his mother would hang up on you and refuse to pick it up again :smack:
People get the nickname that their friends (or sometimes enemies) give them. It can come from anywhere. The point is that it is futile to try and give your son a nickname proof name. His friends will be quite capable of coming up with something based on his first name if they want to, and there’s nothing you can do about it. They could just as easily call him something based on his last name or some distinguishing feature.
Call him Darcy Blinking and he could get Marcy, Dazz, Darko, Donnie, Blinker, Blinko, Blinkers, Blizzard, Lanky, Tiny, Skinny, Shorty, Snowy, Freckles, Biff, Biffo, Pizza Face, Crater Face, Moon Face, Moonie, Eagle Boy, etc.
What you should, IMO, do is call him the nicest name that you can think of, and resign yourself to the possibility of him being called something totally different for his adult life.
At my work we have Ryan “Raz”, Ian “Rags”, Graeme “Greg”, and David “Steve”. I shit you not.
This thread reminds me of a story I read in a Reader’s Digest. The parents had a baby girl and after trying their best to think of a name that had no nickname, christened her Amber. The little brother walked in, took one look at the baby, and said, “Hello Amberger!”
You would think, but I know a Shane called “Shay” and a Bruce called “Boo.”
Gotta say that giving up on the no nickname policy will probably save you frustration later on. My mom has yet to give up on it, and it’s been 30+ years, that’s a lot of frustration. My name is easily nicknamed, but she tried harder with my brother’s name and he still gets called by a nickname (although not related to his given name).
I really like John-Paul, that’s nice. I do wonder if there will be a little surge of John-Pauls born over the past few years, but I wouldn’t care about that too much. It’s a good name. Here in the US, there’s a cadre of Johns with the middle name Fitzgerald and whenever I see it on a business card, I can guess pretty well how old that person is (usually right after the Kennedy assassination).
Best. SNL. Sketch. Ever. 
(Starring guest host Nick Cage, for those who don’t know, who finds a way to mock every proposed name his pregnant wife can come up with, in increasingly amusing ways. Always kills me.)
I will never think of my niece the same way again. Which is really sad, because she’s eleven years old. Thanks a lot, missy.
It’s right up there in the US too.
How about Bennett?
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‘Jack’ is about the most popular name for a baby boy in Australia at the moment.
It’s right up there in the US too.
My point is that many names are made from nicknames. Many people here say I cannot call my baby ‘Robbie’ as a full name
I like John-Paul. Charlie is nice too, but might turn into Chuck or Chaz.
I agree with choosing initials with care. I knew someone named Stewart Allen Tan. Because of the way his employers chose to standardize their work email addresses, initials followed by last name, his appeared as ‘satan@workplace.com’.
Talk about your memorable business cards.
You can name your kid whatever you want (unless you live in Quebec), names that end in a long e just (at least in the U.S.) sounds babyish or girlish on a grown man.
When naming girls there is a “stripper or CEO” test. Say the name, then say whether that person is more likely to work a pole or a balance sheet.
Consider that you aren’t naming a baby, you are naming a person. Robbie is really cute on a three year old. And significantly less cute at fifty.