A Dilemma

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Say that you like a particular name that is usually a nickname--I'll use Bree as an example because it's what I've been thinking of--but you don't like the given form of it at all.

Do you:

a) Bestow the nickname upon your baby (so you have a baby simply named Bree)?
b) Bestow the long form of the name upon your baby (so you have a baby named Brianna)?
c) Forgo the name all together because it's too much of a sacrifice either way?

WDYT, and do you have any name dilemmas like this on your list?

Edited to add: Also, do you think Bree is a name unto itself, or it is still a nickname?

Comments

[laminy.livejournal.com]

A. A all the way. Sometimes C, depending on how ridiculous the nickname is. I find it completely ridiculous to give your kid a name that you hate, just so you can use the nickname that you like. With option A, Eli is probably more of a nickname, but I don't like anything that it comes from, just Eli, so that's on my list. Same as Jack.

With C, I like the nickname Mog, or Moggie, but I'm not going to name my kid Margaret to use it, and I would never use just Moggie.

I consider Bree to be a name all on its own.