I really enjoy [name_u]Emerson[/name_u], & thought about [name_u]Emery[/name_u] as a given & [name_u]Emerson[/name_u] as a nn?
Would you ever do that?
I wouldn’t use [name_u]Emerson[/name_u], I still can’t decide a sex preference on it & the -son ending is also the surname ending.
Yes. 
My sister is [name_f]Natalie[/name_f]; I call her [name_u]Tallie[/name_u], but also [name_f]Natalia[/name_f] and [name_f]Tallulah[/name_f]. My other sister is [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f], and I can’t figure out how to elongate that, so I just call her [name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] a lot. And two of my former coworkers were [name_m]Leo[/name_m] and [name_f]Carol[/name_f]–I called them [name_m]Leopoldo[/name_m] and [name_f]Carolina[/name_f] all the time, haha! I don’t know if I would do it for my own kids–I generally tend to lean toward long and flowy names like [name_f]Isabelle[/name_f] and [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]–how do you really elongate those?–but I do do it a lot.
It could happen. I wouldn’t count on it being widely used, but I could definitely see it.
Ashthedreamer I see what your saying! & tallula is rubbing of on me some! Lol
It’s not unusual for Russians to nickname a name to be longer, like adding a -nka or -ka or -shka ending which adds length. My husband [name_m]Maksim[/name_m] is Makooshka to his mother.
I think things like -son, -cita, -ette & -elle could work for a lengthening nickname!
I do this all the time! I call all my kids -loo or -roo
ex:
Xanderoo, Jasperoo, Hannaloo, Daisyloo, Fionaloo