@lurker172602 wrote:We agonised over choosing names for our three sons. What sounded good with our surname, what they might be shortened or lengthened to, what their initials would be, what famous (or infamous) associations they may have, etc, etc.
As soon as they hit school all three were called by a shortened version of our last name, and two still are! You can't win
I remember reading one of those reader's pars in a women's magazine many years ago, where the writer said she had put a lot of thought in choosing her son's name...including picking one that couldn't be shortened. She named him Murray.
Years pass and her son reaches school age. The mother arrives at school to collect him and this is what she hears his schoolmate call out, "Hey Codfish, your mother wants you!" 
@zanadoo_56 wrote:
@lurker172602 wrote:We agonised over choosing names for our three sons. What sounded good with our surname, what they might be shortened or lengthened to, what their initials would be, what famous (or infamous) associations they may have, etc, etc.
As soon as they hit school all three were called by a shortened version of our last name, and two still are! You can't win
I remember reading one of those reader's pars in a women's magazine many years ago, where the writer said she had put a lot of thought in choosing her son's name...including picking one that couldn't be shortened. She named him Murray.
Years pass and her son reaches school age. The mother arrives at school to collect him and this is what she hears his schoolmate call out, "Hey Codfish, your mother wants you!"
I know some who went to a lot of trouble naming her son too and she called him Ian so no one could shorten it and when he went to school the boys called him fish face. They said he looked like a fish.
