I am due in august with a second daughter and me and my husband have finally found a name that might work as a nn, [name_f]Sylvie[/name_f].
Our older daughter is m@rilise and her nn is [name_f]Mary[/name_f]. She gets called both names fairly evenly.
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] was an honor name but also we liked that it was very familiar to counterbalance my taste in obscure longer names. It works great for young kids and old people to remember and pronounce mary until they learn her full name.
This time around we have both had little luck with a familiar name that doesn’t seem too trendy (I want to avoid calling her name at a playground and having multiple heads turn) and with having such a large family and so many names already used and we are both guilty of being a bit picky.
[name_f]Sylvie[/name_f] is our only real forerunner right now but we don’t really like [name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]. We tend to like long feminine sounding names that could be used on a fictional princess or warrior. We basically combined [name_f]Mary[/name_f] and [name_f]Elise[/name_f] for our older daughter.
Anyone creative have any ideas for a longer name [name_f]Sylvie[/name_f] could be short for? We’re fine with invented names.