Nick Names for Giuliana?

Please spell it Juliana or she will be correcting people her entire life. It doesn't matter that you don't like Julie, people will shorten it to that. It's also possible that she will like Julie and then people will definitely call her that.

i have a young friend named julianna, who goes by juju, which i think is charming.
her mom, a caterer for whom i work sometimes (we all homeschooled together) was working a jewish retreat once with me and called out to juju across the kitchen. the rabbi was walking through, and paused, and asked the mom thoughtfully, 'you call her JEWJEW?'
the mom stammered and apologized, and he smiled gently and said, 'i think that's lovely' and sailed off.
i also like jules, or liana.
:) khairete
S.

Jules

Pick a different name.

My name is Juliane. I've always been J. or Jules/jewels. Not much you can so with this name.

Think about the name you choose for your child when she's a child, teen, young adult and adult at 80 years old.

You know a name last a lifetime for that person.

My daughter has a friend who's mom is "Buffy" . She gets no respect due to her name and she's such a bright woman. Don't curse your child with a name.

Pick a different name. People shorten to the easiest nickname. Unless you introduce her to people as Liana, in which case, just name her that.

Our son has an unconventional nickname, but it works because it's the closest derivative to his name. It's just how it works...

Funny that someone else wrote, Juju, that is my son's nickname (which is not Juliana by the way) but we still thought it cute..
you could call her Jules...
however, I don't always think nicknames have to be a by-product of the original name.. I would also add that Giuliana is a beautiful name so I am not sure I would go with a nickname..
We have many friends who have named their child Giuliana and or other Italian names, to me, the language is already so gorgeous.. why mess with it..
but if you wish.. Jules sounds the best to me..

I love the name Guiliana (super pretty). I agree that Julie is more of a mom name (along with Amy, Jennifer, Amanda and all the other names popular 30-40 years ago), yet Julia sounds fresh and youthful.
Gigi
Julia
G

edit: I did not intend to offend anyone with a popular 70's name. They were great name when I was growing up. I wish my mom went with Jessica when I was born...

Gigi, Lana, Gee...?
Why do you need a nickname at all? My oldest girl is Alicia, never used a nickname for her. Younger daughter is Olivia, and even though I do sometimes call her Liv, it's not really a nickname, I call her Olivia 95% of the time.

I call my daughter Boo Hammer and various incarnations. My son is Budgie and of course there are variations on it as well.

Nicknames have no rules. :)

Jewels
Lee
Anna or Ann
Those would all work.

Or go by the middle name.
That's what my husband does because he and his dad have the same first name.
Odd spellings are a pain.
I know someone who named their son Airich (Eric) - he HATES it and will change it soon as he's old enough to legally do it.

Jules? And no rule says a nickname has to go with a name. My kids nicknames most commonly used are Bear, Tank, and Scooter...I can promise you those are NOT their names :).

Call her what you like and people will follow suit. Maybe once she's much older people will shorten - we did that to friends - but every child I know now is called what her parents introduced her as. Sometimes it's the long full name and sometimes it's a nickname I didn't even know was a nickname until the parents told me. So if you want her to be called Guiliana, keep calling her that and people should copy. I know Elizabeths and Olivia's and Rebecca's etc that are called their full name. Those are four syllables too. Sometimes people may say a quick "Jule" but they really shouldn't shorten it to Julie. Just subtly correct them by working her full name into the next sentence.

My friends Julie, Julia and Julian go by Jules. Since childhood. I don't think they picked it so much as that's what kids found easy to say.

Giuliana is a pretty name. Good luck :)

I think that Gia is a nice nickname.

Ana.

Friend's daughter is Natalie and they call her Alie.

I also agree that sometimes what sticks isn't what you expect. My SD's nickname is not the first nickname she started with. And my 7 yr old now wants to be her full first name, not her nickname that we've called her sine she was a baby. Whatever you, and more importantly she, want her to be called, people will get used to it. If they shorten it, and that's not her name, teach her to politely correct them. If your DD's name were Elizabeth, she wouldn't have to go by Lizzy because someone shortened it to that name. If her nickname is Beth, then it's Beth. If she were Elisabeth vs Elizabeth, people would learn and get over it. So what if people think Julie first or aren't familiar with the spelling? If they are respectful, they'll sort it out.

I think "G" or Gi-Gi (gee gee) would be super cute.

My friend named her daughter Juliana and they call her Ju-Ju. It is only a nickname the family uses for her at this point. I never call her by her nick name.

Blessings!
L.

Any chance you might consider a more traditional spelling?

I work as a sub in an elementary school and it takes me forever each year to learn how to correctly pronounce each specially spelled name. Forget filling out slips to the nurses office, etc.

I saw it and thought Gee-u-lee-ana or Goo-lee-ana...I had NO idea it was Juliana until I read your post.

I have a very non-traditional name...it is actually pronounced phonetically and people butcher it every single time. I specifically gave my kids easy traditional names spelled the traditional way.

Sorry for not answering your question...but I wanted to give you food for thought...from one oddly named person...good luck!!

Jilly, Gigi, Leelee, Ana.

I like Jilly best.

Are you asking for nicknames so you can use them instead of the given name, or so you're warned in advance of all the things people might do to mangle "Giuliana"? I've got a name that's been mangled all my life so I know how that goes. For the record mine is a traditional French name and not very difficult but some people just can't cope with anything other than the simplest of monikers. Do you just assume that everyone's going to have too tough a time with Giuliana, hence the need for a nickname? If so, hey, don't cave to other people's inability to deal with a traditional name from another language. You're not fabricating some weirdly spelled new name here but using a lovely old-fashioned Italian name. If you want to use it in full, do it.

I figure you're using that spelling because it's a traditional Italian spelling and you have a reason for wanting it, maybe ancestry--?

If you're only naming her that maybe to please a relative and you're not 100 percent on board with calling her that yourselves, I'd reconsider the name altogether. If you do love the name, I'd use the whole thing and let the nickname chips fall where they may; you can't control what other kids might come up with but you can influence her by just using her name yourselves.

Meanwhile, if you're set on using a nickname yourselves, Ana (pronounced AH-nah, not "Anna") would be an easy, natural shortening of her given name. Julie would too, in terms of sound, but it will end up spelled "Julie" which is really another given name altogether.

How about Julia? It seems a little dated but I have a friend with a 7 year old with that name (which I thought sounded very out-of-date at the time) and ends up it fits her perfectly. Kinda different.

Sorry about the extremely rude answer. Does it matter whether this child is born already or not? I can't see how.....

I also like Gia and G, like someone else suggested.

Nicknames are totally up to you, as someone said it doesn't have to exactly reflect her name (yes, technically Julia is its own name, but does it matter? I don't think so...)

Jilly
Ana
Li
Lana
Lian

My little neighbor girl has this name. They call her "Lu Lu" for short. It really isn't a derivative and perhaps the nickname has nothing to do with her given name, but it is cute and fits her well.

Good luck!

Gigi
Jules
Jill
Juju (we called my cousin this because he was a junior - bonus, it means "magic")
Genie

perhaps things are different in other parts of the country, I'm from Jersey and did not see Giuliana as "different"! I like Gia or Gianna. Which will not confuse people unless you move to the country.

For Juliana i would say nick names are Jules or Jule or Lana