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What do you guys think of the name Andrew with the nickname Ender?
I love the Ender's Game association, as that is my favorite book, but I wouldn't want to name a kid AFTER Andrew "Ender" Wiggin (but again, I don't plan on having kids any time soon).
I love the name Andrew without any nicknames, but I dislike the nicknames Andy and Drew, and I wonder if those names would come naturally from the name Andrew. I do like Ender though. My association isn't with the word at all, like, I don't think "Finisher", I think Ender's Game.

Also, do you think Andrew will be dated in 10 years? It's always been a pretty popular name, in the top 100 for as long as the SSA list goes back, but its spiked to the top 10 in the last 20 years.

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Well, not every nickname sounds like its name. I have a friend named Richard who has gone by Ricky his entire life, because thats just what people called him since he was a baby. I suppose he could change it if he wanted to, if he didn't like it, but for now everyone calls him Ricky because that is how he introduces himself. People wouldn't know to call Andrew Ender at once, but after they knew him, they would...at least while he was young. If he got older and decided to go by Andrew that would be fine too, obviously, but at least while he was younger I'd probably introduce him to people as Ender. And you know in school they always read off the name list on the first, and then ask if the kids have any nicknames, so that Katherine who prefers to go by Katie can say she likes Katie...well Andrew would say Ender. That was all a really roundabout way of answering how people would know to use the nickname haha. But obviously I wouldn't use the nickname Ender if I didn't like the name Andrew...I just don't like Drew or Andy and people wouldn't call him that if he introduced himself as Ender, you know?