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Considering that my two children both have nicknames, Victoria nn Torrie and William nn Will, obviously I don't have a problem with them. I come from a family who tended to use them. My sisters were Patricia nn Patty and Pamela nn Pam. And my father was Joseph nn Bud, a totally unrelated nickname. And now my grandsons are Leonidas nn Leo and Abraham nn Bram. I think they're fine, if it's a name that lends itself to a nickname, if the parents like the nickname, and if the child him or herself has no objections to it as an adult. Both my daughter and my son like their nicknames, but they also like having a more formal name on their birth certificates.