My mother gave me a short name (my nick name) but decided to give me a really long name... as my legal name because it was "so pretty" She never had any intention of calling me my legal name... so my whole life I've had to correct people, it's quite annoying. My children WILL NOT have nick names. Both of my parents have legal names that people think are nicknames and always try to add on the formal ending and decided that people would do that to me to so they just gave me a long version of my nickname. I'm really considering legally chaning my name. If people use my legal name and I look around like who's that?