Scouting for nicknames — lots of stretches

Girl Names
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Hi berries! A good while ago I asked here for your opinions on my own name since I wanted to change it. I haven’t completely changed it, but I added a name in front of it and I stopped being just Thaís (pronounced tie-EES) and became Waverly Thaís. It felt great at the time — and don’t get me wrong, still does — until I got a temporary work position back in my home country and no one — not even people in my family — can say Waverly right!

I half think I should have thought about that, but the other half of me — the happier half — is very well aware of how much I don’t regret the name and how much it means to me. But it also means that people are skipping Waverly altogether and just calling me Thais. I don’t have too much of a problem with that, but I don’t really like it. So me, being the huge nickname person I am, decided to go around the internet searching for nickname options! To both make Waverly easier and to make me like Thais a little better.

I came up with a LOT of options, a whole ton of stretches too but I made a list of the ones I liked the most and I wonder if you berries could help me pick which ones are the best, maybe? I have absolutely no idea if they’ll eventually stick but it really doesn’t hurt to try. The key here is to find something that works here, that I don’t dislike completely and that would likely be possible to continue using when I go back to the UK.

For Thaís, I found and didn’t immediately hate: Tess, Tate (not exactly sure on that one still), Izzy/ie, teddy/ie and Thea, though most of them are a big stretch.

For Waverly, I found these that actually work here: Lily, Lila (as in lee-la), Lilo. (My English friends always call me Waves though and that’s my absolute favourite but it really hasn’t been intuitive back home)

I am leaning towards everything with an L or an “ie” sound as I’m used to being called Waverly now and growing up kids would call me Ellie and Elsie because my surname was too hard to pronounce.

But I’d just really like to know what you think could work out of these because I can’t just try to make 8 possible nicknames work at once.

Thank you!!!

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I think that the nicknames [name_f]Tess[/name_f] and [name_u]Tate[/name_u] work well for [name_f]Thais[/name_f].
For [name_u]Waverly[/name_u], i think that [name_f]Lily[/name_f] can definetely work. I really like Waves although if that doesn’t work back home, it may not be the right fit. I think that what is most important is that it is a nickname that you feel comfortable with, even though it may not be super close to [name_u]Waverly[/name_u] or [name_f]Thais[/name_f].
These are some other possible nicknames i thought of
For [name_f]Thais[/name_f]:
[name_m]Ty[/name_m], Tie or anything that sounds like that
[name_f]Essie[/name_f]

[name_u]Waverly[/name_u]:
[name_f]Ave[/name_f] / [name_f]Avie[/name_f]
[name_f]Ava[/name_f]
[name_f]Ally[/name_f] / [name_u]Allie[/name_u] / [name_u]Ali[/name_u]
[name_u]Wally[/name_u]
[name_f]Vera[/name_f]
[name_u]Ever[/name_u]
[name_u]Everly[/name_u]
Wave, though if Waves doesn’t work im not sure if this will

I hope this helps :slight_smile:

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I like [name_f]Lea[/name_f] for [name_u]Waverly[/name_u]

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[name_f]Lilo[/name_f] and [name_f]Lila[/name_f] work well!!

[name_f]Willa[/name_f], Aylie/Alie, [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_f]Lettie[/name_f], Lyssie/Lissy

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[name_u]Waverly[/name_u] - [name_f]Avie[/name_f], [name_f]Winnie[/name_f], [name_u]Leva[/name_u]
Thaís - Etie (ee - tee), Tizzy, [name_u]Isa[/name_u] (ee - sah)

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Thank you for your opinions, everyone!! I LOVE your suggestions too. I’ll see what I think I can adapt to and feel good being called. Thank you very very much!