Never cared for shortened name nicknames, especially cutesy immature sounding ones with a y sound on the end. It's okay if people choose it themselves, but some people just get stuck with them. Can remember in highschool a friend's brother wanted people to start calling him Tim, but he was stuck with Timmy because that's how he was always known. Both kids have names with the potential of cutesy sounding nicknames, but was firmly against it when they were growing up. The oldest decided to take a cutesy nickname in middle school, and then grew sick of it after a year, but by then it was too late. Fortunately we moved soon after and she got to start over, lesson learned. The move also prompted the youngest to start over too and change to a shorter version of his name, but not a cutesy sounding name.