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My husband loves Vladimir. I think it sounds really funny with our last name though, so we'll never use it.

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I don't much like Vlad either. I think you could get around it if you had another nickname picked out and used it from the start (with the people who insist on nicknames). The only non-Vlad nickname I can think of is Vili, which might be more likely to "stick" with English-speaking people than the more Russian ones.