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Originally Posted by Taualumna
I legally went from Cindy to Cynthia a few years ago because I thought that Cindy was too cutesy and I wouldn't be taken as seriously had I kept my original name.
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I thought about this a lot when I was younger, too, but in the end I decided to keep my "nicknames." Both my first name and my middle name are a derivative of longer names. My dad dropped his middle name, and my mom has a longer first name that she never goes by (hence my pre-shortened names).