I'm finding this name thread interesting. The different traditions that
have been explained is quite interesting.
Years ago, a co-worker called me Victoria. I finally stopped him and asked
him why he called me that. He had assumed my name was Victoria and my
nickname was Vickie. He didn't believe me when I said Vickie was the name
on my birth certificate. I came close to showing him my birth certificate
to prove it to him.
Now I work with a couple of people who insist on calling me Vic. As much as
I don't like being called Vic, I don't say anything because I don't want to
cause problems in the office by insisting they call me Vickie. These people
are the only people who get away with it. One person in the office was
given the nickname of 'Bumpy' because she was pregnant. When she came back
from maternity leave, they started calling her 'Bumpless'. Now they've gone
back to calling her Bumpy. If these people decided to call me by a nickname
like this, I would say "My name is Vickie."
At least my dad didn't get his way when I was younger. He wanted my older
brother to call me Sis. My mom stopped that one real quick because she was
known by most of the people in her family as Little Sis instead of Lelia.
She wanted people to know me as Vickie, not Sis.
Before my children were born, my husband and I said they would be going be
their first name. He didn't want them having the same problems he did. His
father's name is Marvin Garvis Jr. and goes by Marvin; my husband's name is
Marvin Drew and goes by Drew. Whenever anyone calls my husband Marvin, he
says that's his father. Drew has never said he doesn't like Marvin;
however, he doesn't like how there's no space to spell out his middle name
on the applications. For legal documents, he has to put Marvin D; for
non-legal, he puts Drew in the first name field and no middle initial.
Our sons' first names are Bryan and Devin as an attempt for names that
weren't nicknames or that nicknames could not be derived from. When they
were younger, people would call Bryan - Bry or Bry-Bry and call Devin - Dev.
Now that they are 21 and 17, they've lost their nicknames and go by their
birth given names.
For their middle names, Bryan's is Marvin in honor of his grandfather and
Devin's is Drew to keep Drew in the family. If we would have had a girl, we
would have tried to use one of our other's name as her middle name.
When Drew and I married, I didn't think about hyphenating my last name.
However, I did start using my maiden name as my middle name. The company I
work for now insists on using my birth given middle name on my records and
ignores my maiden last name or they use my whole maiden name with my married
name. If I receive mail with Vickie L. McKinney or Vickie Lynn Watson
McKinney, I know it's work related; Vickie W. McKinney, it's not work
related.
Vickie McKinney
Colorado, USA
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