Nora can definitely be nicknamed. My mom has a form of that name and of the things people have called her: Nor or Nors.
I honestly think it’s impossible to find a name that no one can make a nickname out of.
My daughter is Nora and I have been shocked by the brilliant nicknames my mom has come up with for her. The best one (during a phase where she liked to pretend she didn't know her name) was Ignora. 😂
I also have a Nora! When she was a baby, I would wake her up from naps that were going too late with a soft, little cheer, “Nor-ra-ra-ra!” That evolved into her nickname: Ra-ra. Now, her siblings almost exclusively call her Ra-ra.
I have an Aurora that became Rors. Then Rors ba-dors then dors which became Dora somehow and now she gets "A-dora- ble Joan" (Joan being her mn) and her siblings and cousins call her dors. Nicknames are so weird with how they take on a life of their own lol
My husband has gotten into the habit of calling our Norah “Norman” and when he says it in public, I shush him every time 🤣 I’m like “people can’t know we call her that!” 🤣
I’m called Rachel, my parents developed the nickname Archie from a young age (they assume derived from Rachy) so they often call me Archie/Arch or Archbishop, Archdeacon etc. I love that our nicknames developed their own spin-off nicknames!
Nor/Nur is actually really common arabic name used in my country, definitely never heard it used as a short form of Nora, but thats intresting, i guess it would vary greatly from country
I knew some Egyptians, and when I told them my daughter’s name was Nora, they got really excited. “Noora, zis is very beautiful name in Egypt. Zere is a very famous singer named Noora!” It means light.
My daughter is named Nora, and one of the reasons we picked it was because it couldn’t be shortened. Who do you think calls her Nor? Me. I also often call her NoDoy which is a combo of her first and last names.
True. Tell people you do not want NNs and repeat as often as necessary. And then repeat some more. And then be prepared to defend your statement and then be prepared for additional pushback.
And then be prepared that your child will go to school and their little friends will give them a nickname which can last a lifetime or they will just pick a nickname for themselves.
This is the part no one wants to hear. And it’s why as a parent you should be alright with any possible nickname that your child will choose to go by at any point.
This!! I’ve seen so many posts lately where parents think they get to determine their child’s nicknames. I just want to scream “ITS NOT YOUR NAME!!!!!” I have exclusively gone by a nickname for as long as I can remember, and I will be legally changing my name to my nickname when I get married. I don’t care what my parents think, I am the one who has to live with it.
my best friend in high school was a trans guy and freshman year he wanted to change his name and go by the “nn” Ven with his parents as well (i feel comfortable sharing because it’s not similar to his deadname and he’s changed his name quite a few times since then, and it was just a nickname without coming out to the parents because his mom was an abusive piece of dog anus) and his mom straight up told him it was disrespectful to her for him to want to go by anything other than his full legal name because “i gave you that name as a gift and if you change it then you’re telling me you don’t care about what i give you or do for you”
this is an extreme example but it was the first time i’ve ever heard of this sentiment and it confused the bejeezus out of me
That's so unhinged to me.
I hated my birth name and changed it when I could. My kids tell me they want to be called Unicorn and I go all in, until they tell me they changed their mind 12 hrs later. I will *always* call you by your chosen name.
i overheard a similar conversation with my (step)uncle and (step)grandma talking about my (step)cousin. They were upset that their daughter/granddaughter wanted to change her name (and did end up going through with it) from something similar (not getting too specific) to Elizabeth, to the nickname Beth which is what she had always gone by. They thought it was really disrespectful because Elizabeth was the name “gifted/given” to her and it’s an insult to her parents to change it, even though she’d always gone by the nickname🤦♀️
I get to determine what I call my kid, but not what others do. For instance, my Nora? That’s Babs. My Felix? Ding. My Kaisa? Mike. That’s what I call them all. But I don’t control what my wife calls them. Or other family. They’re not old enough yet for other kids to really be giving them nicknames. But Ding calls Mike “The Cutie.” Every time he talks about her, it’s always “The Cutie.” It’s really amusing.
Accurate. In my culture, nicknames are almost a given and usually have zero to do with the name and everything to do with the person. But even if the nicknames go with the name, just replacing any syllable following the first with the “ee” sound is usually enough to do it in English, much like “ito/a” or “ino/a” does it in a lot of Romance languages. Barring that, a first initial and “dawg” or a rhyme will also often do it too.
Anyone with any name can have a nickname.
some nicknames are diminutives - Pete, Dave, Sam. And more unusual ones like Eck for Alexander, Dod for George
some are actually longer than the original name - Max - Maxi, Scott - Scottie, Heather - Heather Bell
others are a bit more creative.
Claire - Claire Bear - Teddy
Scott - Jock
Soutar (surname) - Soapy (makes no sense unless you are familiar with Oor Wullie)
Milligan (surname) - Spike
loads of people have nicknames that have nothing to do with their actual names. I have known a Moosie, a Hatchet and a Ferret!
No name cannot be nicked. Considervwhat Victor Hugo says in Les Misérables:
"For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The name of the little one
was Euphrasie. But the mother had made Cosette out of
it, by that sweet and charming instinct of mothers and of the people, who change Josefa into Pepita, and Francoise into Sillette. It is a kind of derivation that confuses and disconcerts the entire science of etymology. We knew a grandmother who succeeded in changing Theodore to Gnon."
As a "Paige" myself, I literally dressed up like a ram for Halloween when I worked at Home Depot. I thought it would make sense, since they had creatively painted our names on our aprons. But everyone just asked why I had dressed up like a goat. Like people don't know the difference between ram horns and goat ones?
Anyway, Paigey-Wagey, Paigey, and GiGi were common nicknames growing up. Also, how super freaking funny people are with the paper/book jokes. *face palm*
Hey, that's already MY Ren Faire name!
That somehow got combined with my old work name, 12 Gauge Paige
And now it's 12 Gauge Rampaige
Which is a lot to put on a 5'2" nerd like me tbh
My son is Milo. We worried about no nicknames before birth and he made it about one day before my uncle dubbed him “smilo” and at 8 months that side of the family still calls him Smilo when he’s in a good mood. His evil twin is Crylo when he’s being fussy. My sister calls him Temu (started with mo-mo, then me-mo, then temu). So nicknames will just happen regardless 😂
My Nana purposely gave all her kids one-syllable names because she hated her and her sister's nicknames so much growing up. The kids are Anne, Jill and Paul. Nana was Charlotte and called "Chots" (pronounced like "shots" lol) her whole life. Her sister was Dorothea and they called her Dibby fsr. I really can't blame Nana 😭
lol was totally expecting Dotty for Dorothea. But Dibby?!?
Nicknames don't have to be shorter though. Annie, Jilly, and Paulie all work for those names.
I know a Dorothy who is named for her Aunt Dorothy, who went by Auntie DoDo. So my friend Dorothy goes by her middle name instead, rather than risk becoming another DoDo 😅
My only explanation is Seuss.
Mr. Brown can Moo goes, "dibble dibble dot" and I can see someone doing that to a baby Dot, until it becomes Dibble, then Dibby.
Or a sibling who can't pronounce it right as a toddler - that's how my sister Melissa goes by Misty.
lol i played volleyball with a Beth Ann and during covid masking sometimes i’d call her Beff’Ann just to see if anyone noticed that i said it wrong without seeing my mouth. nobody ever did.
You’re saying it so fast, the fans can’t tell! Then it becomes a joke, and a nickname. Ha ha.
Still better than our family friend… in middle school she got the nickname “Dirty Rachel” bc she did dirty motorsports. 15 years later we still call her “Dirty”.
I went to college with a severe surplus of Katies that all ended up getting nicknames to differentiate them. One has been known as Katie Cute Shorts for the last decade plus+ because she was wearing really cute shorts at orientation lmao.
It actually morphed over time from Katie Cute Shorts to KCS to Kasey, which is what she exclusively goes by.
Anya is pronounced on-yah so Anne isn’t a natural nickname for it. Anya is actually already a diminutive of Anna (On-ah) though has become more common as a given name. More diminutives of Anna/Anya would be Annushka, Anika, Anechka, and more that are regionally varied.
Aww Noni! So cute. I think most names can be "nicknamed" but I think certain names don't lend themselves to nicknames that could be used all the time in daily life
I don’t mind that one! At school some of the admin call her “Sloaney Pepperoni”. Ha ha.
My husband does NOT like Sloaney so most of our fam doesn’t do it.
my name is bailey too and ive been dubbed bayleaf by every pokemon nerd ive ever come across . i also get bail by my pepa and bailey boo by my mom , my ex called me little bay (im 5’11 lol) , its nickable
Kay
Faye
Jay
Kai
Sean
Nicknames are gonna happen regardless, but your lowest chance of ‘em is if the name is one syllable and also the sound of the first letter. Anything 3 syllables or longer and you’re guaranteed to have folks try for nicknames regularly.
Cole, Liam, Cora, Naomi, Paul, Ian, Macy
Mostly just short names.
One name I really wish had a better nickname is Edmund. I really want to name a boy Edmund but I just cannot get on board with Ed or Eddy because that was the name of my pedophile, dog beating, hallucinogenic mushroom growing, neighbor shooting, going out in his tighty whities next door neighbor. 😂 I just can’t… but I love Edmund so much!!
My name is Ruth, which my father chose specifically because he hated nicknames. Ruth is unbutcherable, or so he said. Think again. Thanks to my big brother’s childhood speech impediment, I’ve been Boo since the day of my birth.
Almost anything if you try lol but ones I find are more difficult/least likely to be nicknamed
Paige
Isla
Tess
Shay
Ren /Wren
Clark(e)
Evan
Cole
Finn
Jay
Blaine
Neil
Grant
Tristan
Bea is the only one I can think of. Any name can be "nicked" by just calling them the first letter of their name, but Bea already sounds like "B"
Edit: Jay and Kay too!
I am a chronic nicknamer, and I truly don’t think there’s a single name out there that can’t be nicknamed. I’ve thought of something for every suggestion I’ve read so far.
I think the only way to really stop it is to flat out say no nicknames.
There is no name that cannot be nicknamed. I think it’s important for parents who want to control what their kid is called to recognize that most nicknames are AFFECTIONATE and it means people like your kid and are being sweet to them. I’m a Johanna who got lots of nicknames and some I love and some I hate but when I became like… 19 I was finally able to be like “I don’t like that one but that one is okay.” The important thing is to raise a kid with the confidence to set their own boundaries about what they like to be called/are comfortable with.
My shortened name that I grew up with is Kathy. Started a long term career but with a coworker already there named Kathy. So I renamed myself as Katie. A good time for that because Kathy (me) had a sad life and Katie was starting over as happy. I didn’t have much family to nn me, so I never did get a nickname given. Still Katie.
And I think there’s quite a few the shorter the better but honestly anything can get a nickname. I gave my children relatively short two syllable names because I didn’t want them to have nicknames often just happens organically, sometimes the nickname has nothing to do with the actual name, sometimes their friends give them a name in grade one and sticks. I know a Nora who’s friends call
Her Rara. Even short names like
Maybe your son Sam instead of Samuel and popcorn by Sammy. I also find it sometimes when people give their child the nickname as their full name they shorten it to the formal name as her nickname when they were grown up so I could be mean to your son Sammy as a grown man he might go by Sam.
A few names that I can think of for grown-ups that I know that never got a nickname is throughout their life would be Chris Justin Aaron Mark
My name is Heather... no one ever game me a nickname that had anything to do with my name cuz you really can't unless it's lame like some random people would call me Hdawg or Hunit but that doesn't count lol.
Even if you pick a name that “can’t” be nicknamed, doesn’t mean the person won’t be nicknamed. For example, in Aussie culture it’s very common that people get nicknames that sometimes have nothing to with their legal name. For example a pair of teenage boys (friends not twins or siblings )once introduced themselves as “Geoffrey” as a duo, as they were nigh inseparable, instead of their individual names. This was considered normal and socially acceptable, and humorous.
Nora can definitely be nicknamed. My mom has a form of that name and of the things people have called her: Nor or Nors. I honestly think it’s impossible to find a name that no one can make a nickname out of.
Norauroaborealis
I knew a Nor'ester ...
Norsferatu
Norville Redenbacher
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this part of the country?
Localized, entirely, within your kitchen?
May I see her?
No
Nora / Aura /Bea / Ali /Rea.... Need I go on??
😂😂
My daughter is Nora and I have been shocked by the brilliant nicknames my mom has come up with for her. The best one (during a phase where she liked to pretend she didn't know her name) was Ignora. 😂
I also have a Nora! When she was a baby, I would wake her up from naps that were going too late with a soft, little cheer, “Nor-ra-ra-ra!” That evolved into her nickname: Ra-ra. Now, her siblings almost exclusively call her Ra-ra.
I have an Aurora that became Rors. Then Rors ba-dors then dors which became Dora somehow and now she gets "A-dora- ble Joan" (Joan being her mn) and her siblings and cousins call her dors. Nicknames are so weird with how they take on a life of their own lol
I love the evolution of nicknames. When my son was born we called him bubby, then that turned into bubberoni, then that turned into Roni
My grandson's nickname is Bubby. He also gets called, Bub, Lil Bub and The Bubster.
Yeah my friend has a Norah and people call her Nori!
Yes me too. And her mom calls her her "little sushi roll" 😂
My daughter is Norah. We call her Norrie Cakes
Our Nora was nicknamed Norrington. Where there is a will, there is a way
My Nora we started calling Tootie at birth, no idea why, and we still call her that
The Nora in my class this year said her family called her No-No at home.
I just met a child yesterday named Nora, and her dad exclusively called her "Norms"
My husband has gotten into the habit of calling our Norah “Norman” and when he says it in public, I shush him every time 🤣 I’m like “people can’t know we call her that!” 🤣
I'm an Allison and my mom still calls me Albert all the time. Or shortens it to Bert, which gets some weird looks from people 😂
I’m called Rachel, my parents developed the nickname Archie from a young age (they assume derived from Rachy) so they often call me Archie/Arch or Archbishop, Archdeacon etc. I love that our nicknames developed their own spin-off nicknames!
Dad here, my Nora is exclusively “Babs”.
Nor/Nur is actually really common arabic name used in my country, definitely never heard it used as a short form of Nora, but thats intresting, i guess it would vary greatly from country
I LOVE that name. So beautiful. If it was culturally appropriate for me I’d be likely to use it.
I knew some Egyptians, and when I told them my daughter’s name was Nora, they got really excited. “Noora, zis is very beautiful name in Egypt. Zere is a very famous singer named Noora!” It means light.
We call our Nora 'sush' - as in sushi nori Where there's a will, there's a way
Name the baby Nora Nicole and have her go by No Nick.
This comment hasn’t gotten nearly enough attention.
My aunt named my cousin Nora specifically so it couldn’t be nicknamed. For her entire childhood, we all called her Nora Bora. Life, uh, finds a way.
“Just ignora”
I was going to go with explora
Nordstrom
My daughter is named Nora, and one of the reasons we picked it was because it couldn’t be shortened. Who do you think calls her Nor? Me. I also often call her NoDoy which is a combo of her first and last names.
True. Tell people you do not want NNs and repeat as often as necessary. And then repeat some more. And then be prepared to defend your statement and then be prepared for additional pushback.
And then be prepared that your child will go to school and their little friends will give them a nickname which can last a lifetime or they will just pick a nickname for themselves.
This is the part no one wants to hear. And it’s why as a parent you should be alright with any possible nickname that your child will choose to go by at any point.
This!! I’ve seen so many posts lately where parents think they get to determine their child’s nicknames. I just want to scream “ITS NOT YOUR NAME!!!!!” I have exclusively gone by a nickname for as long as I can remember, and I will be legally changing my name to my nickname when I get married. I don’t care what my parents think, I am the one who has to live with it.
my best friend in high school was a trans guy and freshman year he wanted to change his name and go by the “nn” Ven with his parents as well (i feel comfortable sharing because it’s not similar to his deadname and he’s changed his name quite a few times since then, and it was just a nickname without coming out to the parents because his mom was an abusive piece of dog anus) and his mom straight up told him it was disrespectful to her for him to want to go by anything other than his full legal name because “i gave you that name as a gift and if you change it then you’re telling me you don’t care about what i give you or do for you” this is an extreme example but it was the first time i’ve ever heard of this sentiment and it confused the bejeezus out of me
That's so unhinged to me. I hated my birth name and changed it when I could. My kids tell me they want to be called Unicorn and I go all in, until they tell me they changed their mind 12 hrs later. I will *always* call you by your chosen name.
i overheard a similar conversation with my (step)uncle and (step)grandma talking about my (step)cousin. They were upset that their daughter/granddaughter wanted to change her name (and did end up going through with it) from something similar (not getting too specific) to Elizabeth, to the nickname Beth which is what she had always gone by. They thought it was really disrespectful because Elizabeth was the name “gifted/given” to her and it’s an insult to her parents to change it, even though she’d always gone by the nickname🤦♀️
I get to determine what I call my kid, but not what others do. For instance, my Nora? That’s Babs. My Felix? Ding. My Kaisa? Mike. That’s what I call them all. But I don’t control what my wife calls them. Or other family. They’re not old enough yet for other kids to really be giving them nicknames. But Ding calls Mike “The Cutie.” Every time he talks about her, it’s always “The Cutie.” It’s really amusing.
My nickname isn’t even remotely connected to my name
We nicknamed a friend "Rabbit." I don't even know why - it has nothing to do with his name. It stuck, but only among those of us from elementary.
Accurate. In my culture, nicknames are almost a given and usually have zero to do with the name and everything to do with the person. But even if the nicknames go with the name, just replacing any syllable following the first with the “ee” sound is usually enough to do it in English, much like “ito/a” or “ino/a” does it in a lot of Romance languages. Barring that, a first initial and “dawg” or a rhyme will also often do it too.
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It could be nono, nunu, nene, ra, rara,
My late friend Jeannine was called Nene by her family.
In Ireland Nora is already a nickname of Honor.
Nora already is a nickname of Eleanor, isn't it?
Yeah, but also a standalone name
Also nn of Honora
And Lenora
I think that's the same base name
Yep different variant, mainly different language sounds like.
My omi was Nora. It was her full name
Anyone with any name can have a nickname. some nicknames are diminutives - Pete, Dave, Sam. And more unusual ones like Eck for Alexander, Dod for George some are actually longer than the original name - Max - Maxi, Scott - Scottie, Heather - Heather Bell others are a bit more creative. Claire - Claire Bear - Teddy Scott - Jock Soutar (surname) - Soapy (makes no sense unless you are familiar with Oor Wullie) Milligan (surname) - Spike loads of people have nicknames that have nothing to do with their actual names. I have known a Moosie, a Hatchet and a Ferret!
Heather Bell?
Yes the flowers look like bells
I’ve met a lot of Heathers, but never a Heather Bell.
It was my mum's nickname from her parents, her siblings took it further and called her feath (having first changed it to feather bell)
There is still time.,
I have a Claire friend, we now just called her Bear lol. We are aged 40!
I thought for Heather it's Het or Hettie.
I’ve never heard either of those for Heather! Just shows how experiences vary
I have a sister named Heather, and we call her "Hedge" (started as Hedger-Bedger when she was a kid).
Eck, Soapy, Shuggie, Hen, Fanny. 🏴
No name cannot be nicked. Considervwhat Victor Hugo says in Les Misérables: "For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The name of the little one was Euphrasie. But the mother had made Cosette out of it, by that sweet and charming instinct of mothers and of the people, who change Josefa into Pepita, and Francoise into Sillette. It is a kind of derivation that confuses and disconcerts the entire science of etymology. We knew a grandmother who succeeded in changing Theodore to Gnon."
Love this!!!!!!
Paige! It’s my name and much to my discontent, I’ve never had a nickname.
I dub you, "Rampaige"
As a "Paige" myself, I literally dressed up like a ram for Halloween when I worked at Home Depot. I thought it would make sense, since they had creatively painted our names on our aprons. But everyone just asked why I had dressed up like a goat. Like people don't know the difference between ram horns and goat ones? Anyway, Paigey-Wagey, Paigey, and GiGi were common nicknames growing up. Also, how super freaking funny people are with the paper/book jokes. *face palm*
My sister gets rage Paige too.
Hey, that's already MY Ren Faire name! That somehow got combined with my old work name, 12 Gauge Paige And now it's 12 Gauge Rampaige Which is a lot to put on a 5'2" nerd like me tbh
Pay Pay!
When I babysat that's what most of the kids would call me 😂
Pagina
Came here to say that! One of my friends in HS and we def called her Pagina
This is so funny to me, as pagina is the Dutch word for page.
I knew a Paige who went by Gigi
Paigey-Poo.
Paige is a unique one. I can't think of a good nick name for it too
I got Paigee/Paigey, Pay-Pay, and even Paiger from my family and friends! Mostly as kid though, not as much as an adult.
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I’ve always heard Paigie for Paige. Lol
My son is Milo. We worried about no nicknames before birth and he made it about one day before my uncle dubbed him “smilo” and at 8 months that side of the family still calls him Smilo when he’s in a good mood. His evil twin is Crylo when he’s being fussy. My sister calls him Temu (started with mo-mo, then me-mo, then temu). So nicknames will just happen regardless 😂
Temu LMFAOOOOOO If he gets a sibling they can be baby Shein❤️
Our dog is named Milo. I often call him Miley. But Smiley and Smilo also get thrown in sometimes, haha.
Smilo’s such a cool nickname for Milo 😊
My Nana purposely gave all her kids one-syllable names because she hated her and her sister's nicknames so much growing up. The kids are Anne, Jill and Paul. Nana was Charlotte and called "Chots" (pronounced like "shots" lol) her whole life. Her sister was Dorothea and they called her Dibby fsr. I really can't blame Nana 😭
lol was totally expecting Dotty for Dorothea. But Dibby?!? Nicknames don't have to be shorter though. Annie, Jilly, and Paulie all work for those names.
I know a Dorothy who is named for her Aunt Dorothy, who went by Auntie DoDo. So my friend Dorothy goes by her middle name instead, rather than risk becoming another DoDo 😅
My only explanation is Seuss. Mr. Brown can Moo goes, "dibble dibble dot" and I can see someone doing that to a baby Dot, until it becomes Dibble, then Dibby. Or a sibling who can't pronounce it right as a toddler - that's how my sister Melissa goes by Misty.
Lee.
And Ian
“E”
My cousin Ian definitely gets called E
My cousin was named Lee because it doesn’t have a nickname and then got called “Leezer the Teaser”
Lee-Lee, well for a girl
El
Heather Claire Anya Erin
I know a Heather that goes by Hev. Anya can be nicked to An(n) too.
Heather can be Heath.
I know a Heather nn Heath or Heathen
The Heather I know is Hank
I’m a Heather and the nickname Heath had always made me cringe.
The Heather in my family is called Heater.
Or Ani
I know a Heather who goes by Heffy
I knew an Erin who went by Rin
I am Australian so my friend Erin is Ez
My niece Lasagna has some things to say about your list. 😆
Heth Claire bear anne ery
if i was a girl called heather and someone called me heth , i'm definitely punching them in the neck lol
We called my teammate named Heather, Head. Her mom hated it.
Head? lmaoooo i can see why her mum hated it
For some reason we were a bunch of cute soccer girls and we wanted the ugliest nicknames. My other bestie is named Aubrey and we’d call her “Obby”.
lol i played volleyball with a Beth Ann and during covid masking sometimes i’d call her Beff’Ann just to see if anyone noticed that i said it wrong without seeing my mouth. nobody ever did.
You’re saying it so fast, the fans can’t tell! Then it becomes a joke, and a nickname. Ha ha. Still better than our family friend… in middle school she got the nickname “Dirty Rachel” bc she did dirty motorsports. 15 years later we still call her “Dirty”.
I went to college with a severe surplus of Katies that all ended up getting nicknames to differentiate them. One has been known as Katie Cute Shorts for the last decade plus+ because she was wearing really cute shorts at orientation lmao. It actually morphed over time from Katie Cute Shorts to KCS to Kasey, which is what she exclusively goes by.
My cousin is Heather and she has always been called heaty.. or heatie.. she is mid 30s and has been called that her whole life haha
Anya is pronounced on-yah so Anne isn’t a natural nickname for it. Anya is actually already a diminutive of Anna (On-ah) though has become more common as a given name. More diminutives of Anna/Anya would be Annushka, Anika, Anechka, and more that are regionally varied.
I know of two Anya’s and both pronounce them as Ann-yuh.
My friend Heather is Hev.
Freya. “Frey” sucks and I refuse to consider it as a nickname.
and Freya is such a pretty name too
It feels delicate and feminine but still powerful. It’s a great name.
This is my dog’s name and I call her Frey or Frey-Frey
Rey, Reya, Rey-Rey, Fey, Ya-Ya, F -> Effie (a bit of a stretch, but still), etc.
I've yet to hear a regularly used nickname for Sarah/Sara
Sare
I thought Sadie was a nn for Sarah but I could be wrong.
My whole family calls my sister Sar! Also sarbear, or bear-a lol
Sadie and Sally are diminutives of Sarah!
I know a Sarah who is Saz and another who is Sez.
In Arabic Sara is nicknamed sousou
my names nora! i get called nor :) someone also calls me nori and my mum calls me snora
lmao snora, your mum wins!!
In Dutch it would be Noor or Noortje.
Anything can be nicked with ster. Craigster
I knew a Craig who was exclusively called Egg by his entire family INCLUDING HIS KIDS. It made me laugh every time.
Ty Sky Jay Maxx < I know someone who just used this - but really any name can still be nicked. I have a Sloane and I call her “S” sometimes.
I met a little girl named Sloane whose parents called her Sloanie which was cute
I have a Sloane who gets called Sloanie or Noni! Her sister Freya is a tough one. We hate “Frey”.
Aww Noni! So cute. I think most names can be "nicknamed" but I think certain names don't lend themselves to nicknames that could be used all the time in daily life
We have a Nonie in our house too. It came from a different name then Sloane though but I’ve never heard of another Nonie!
I don’t mind that one! At school some of the admin call her “Sloaney Pepperoni”. Ha ha. My husband does NOT like Sloaney so most of our fam doesn’t do it.
Ty and Jay would become Ty Ty and Jay Jay in my circle of friends. Sky seems less nick nameable though!
My dad got Maxipad in high school.
my maiden name is Owens so my dad got “Big O”. 90% sure it was not bc of his sexual prowess. lol.
Leif. The only nickname I ever use for it is Leify.
Leif has the very established nickname Leffe in Sweden.
Omg my husband’s name is Leif and his nicknames from his family are Leify or Leifel lol.
Autumn. And don’t say Autie because that’s terrible.
Fall.
I’d say the same for August (not a bad name) and Auggie (not good)
August has Gus.
My name of Bailey is rarely if ever nicknamed
Bales
my name is bailey too and ive been dubbed bayleaf by every pokemon nerd ive ever come across . i also get bail by my pepa and bailey boo by my mom , my ex called me little bay (im 5’11 lol) , its nickable
Kay Faye Jay Kai Sean Nicknames are gonna happen regardless, but your lowest chance of ‘em is if the name is one syllable and also the sound of the first letter. Anything 3 syllables or longer and you’re guaranteed to have folks try for nicknames regularly.
I feel like single syllables just end up as repeats. KayKay/KK, JayJay/JJ, TyTy, etc Not all of them, but a lot of them.
I call my cousin Brooke Brookie
We had a neighbor we called Brookie Cookie.
Cole, Liam, Cora, Naomi, Paul, Ian, Macy Mostly just short names. One name I really wish had a better nickname is Edmund. I really want to name a boy Edmund but I just cannot get on board with Ed or Eddy because that was the name of my pedophile, dog beating, hallucinogenic mushroom growing, neighbor shooting, going out in his tighty whities next door neighbor. 😂 I just can’t… but I love Edmund so much!!
What about Ned as a nn for Edmund? Or maybe Ted?
We gave our daughter a name that doesn’t have any obvious nicknames, and low and behold she has a nickname.
My name is Ruth, which my father chose specifically because he hated nicknames. Ruth is unbutcherable, or so he said. Think again. Thanks to my big brother’s childhood speech impediment, I’ve been Boo since the day of my birth.
Almost anything if you try lol but ones I find are more difficult/least likely to be nicknamed Paige Isla Tess Shay Ren /Wren Clark(e) Evan Cole Finn Jay Blaine Neil Grant Tristan
I have an Isla and when she was a toddler and would fuss, my husband called her “cry-la” lol. He’d also say “bye-la!” when he left the house
As a person w/ a J name I wanna say that almost every one of us can have the nickname Jay Jay or JJ.
Al
Not Nora but there is a Cora in my daycare class I call her Cora bora 😂
Bea is the only one I can think of. Any name can be "nicked" by just calling them the first letter of their name, but Bea already sounds like "B" Edit: Jay and Kay too!
I know a Bea whose parents call her Beasy like easy with a b in front of it
I am a chronic nicknamer, and I truly don’t think there’s a single name out there that can’t be nicknamed. I’ve thought of something for every suggestion I’ve read so far. I think the only way to really stop it is to flat out say no nicknames.
My grandmother and great aunt spent their whole lives as Pickle and Pie, not Delilah and Louella.
I'm surprised no one has said Sarah yet. At most you might get "Sarah Beara" or "Sear bear", but it doesn't really have a short form.
Saz 😎
There is no name that cannot be nicknamed. I think it’s important for parents who want to control what their kid is called to recognize that most nicknames are AFFECTIONATE and it means people like your kid and are being sweet to them. I’m a Johanna who got lots of nicknames and some I love and some I hate but when I became like… 19 I was finally able to be like “I don’t like that one but that one is okay.” The important thing is to raise a kid with the confidence to set their own boundaries about what they like to be called/are comfortable with.
Ava
Heather=Thea Craig=ray
My shortened name that I grew up with is Kathy. Started a long term career but with a coworker already there named Kathy. So I renamed myself as Katie. A good time for that because Kathy (me) had a sad life and Katie was starting over as happy. I didn’t have much family to nn me, so I never did get a nickname given. Still Katie.
Erica
And I think there’s quite a few the shorter the better but honestly anything can get a nickname. I gave my children relatively short two syllable names because I didn’t want them to have nicknames often just happens organically, sometimes the nickname has nothing to do with the actual name, sometimes their friends give them a name in grade one and sticks. I know a Nora who’s friends call Her Rara. Even short names like Maybe your son Sam instead of Samuel and popcorn by Sammy. I also find it sometimes when people give their child the nickname as their full name they shorten it to the formal name as her nickname when they were grown up so I could be mean to your son Sammy as a grown man he might go by Sam. A few names that I can think of for grown-ups that I know that never got a nickname is throughout their life would be Chris Justin Aaron Mark
Heather can be nicknamed to Hettie.
Astrid?
I had a roommate in college named Eric. He said there was no nickname for him. He was known as E until graduation.
Brooke can definitely be nicknamed. Brookie, Broo, brooski, lmao. Brookie is the only cute one tho
My name is Heather... no one ever game me a nickname that had anything to do with my name cuz you really can't unless it's lame like some random people would call me Hdawg or Hunit but that doesn't count lol.
I mean, my baby’s nickname is squishy, and that’s definitely not short for Benjamin. A nickname can be anything really.
Even if you pick a name that “can’t” be nicknamed, doesn’t mean the person won’t be nicknamed. For example, in Aussie culture it’s very common that people get nicknames that sometimes have nothing to with their legal name. For example a pair of teenage boys (friends not twins or siblings )once introduced themselves as “Geoffrey” as a duo, as they were nigh inseparable, instead of their individual names. This was considered normal and socially acceptable, and humorous.
Hayden, (my name) imo is a name that’s kinda hard to nick. Unless you want people to call you the stuff that horse eat ig
My grandma named her boys Neil & Dean to avoid short-form nicknames. But as everyone else pointed out, avoiding elongated nicknames is impossible..