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I like Annie. I think it can stand alone as a full name, since it's well-established as a full name.

As a full name, more showbiz than real life: Get your Gun and the Little Orphan.

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As a nn, I must say Ann(e) springs to mind! Or Anna I suppose.

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I'd be likely to use either Anne or Antonia, but I wouldn't use Annie for either of them personally.

Super sweet. Not as nice as Anne, a million times more personality than Anna.

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My Annie would be Anwen, but I think its best as a full name.

I enjoy it: personally I would use the formality "Ann / Anne / Andrew / Aniken / Anders / Androcles" - allowing the "ie" suffix to serve as an informal nick name - or for the name to use as formally as (s)/he prefers. I am happy though for Annie to serve as a formal name as well.

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If an Andrew may be Andy (Andie), may (s)/he be Annie??

I like Annie and think it works fine as a full name. If I had to use it as a nn I'd go with Annabelle as the formal name.

I think Annie is a darling nn, however, it just doesn't seem substantial as a fn. I realize many people have been named Annie on the bc and it never held them back in any way. Also, Annie is better than many nns that have even less going for them.

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My youngest dd, Anna, was called Annie around the age of two. She has had several nns over the years. When her Kindergarten teacher changed the pronunciation of her name to AH-nuh (without realizing or caring that we didn't pronounce it that way) and it stuck, another nn opened up to us -- Annika. She's either called that or Annie (pr. AH-nee) that my dh uses. Can't say I especially care for Annie pronounced that way, however, it is a nn and no biggie. I pick my battles and besides, Anna answers to pretty much anything.

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BTW, my maternal gggm was named Anna (nn Annie). I was unaware of this when my dh chose our youngest's name. Obviously, I never knew this woman yet it is comforting in some way to know they share the same name.

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Annie could be a nn for many names containing the an sound:

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Ann, Anne, Anna, Annika, Anouk
Anastasia
Andromeda
Angela, Angelina, Angeline
Andrea
Juliana
Tatiana
Susanna
Arianna
Adriana
Gloriana
Eliana
Mariana
Oriana
Louisiana (just kidding!)

This message was edited 5/10/2018, 4:55 PM

Don’t like it as a full name, love it as an NN for Ann / Anne / Ana / Anna.

It's childish. Because it doesn't make Anne or Anna shorter. Just cutesier.
I don't like it, and I do think of LO Annie (with the blank white eyes) a little bit.
Anastasia? I don't mind Ani (ah-nee) as much as Annie rhyme canny.

This message was edited 5/10/2018, 3:11 PM

Well, my mother-in-law is named Anny, pronounced in her native Belgium so the first syllable rhymes with John, but pronounced in the US just like Annie, and she hates it and has twice in her life said she's changing it, but never did.

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I don't care for the sound, either. I don't like Anne but still Annie seems too much like a nickname. Yet I'd never use it as one.

I think it sounds way too informal to be a full name. I personally don’t like it as a nickname either. If I had to I’d probably use it for Annalise or Anne.

I might like it most as a full name, because for all the longish names that start with An that I think of, I'd prefer a different NN.

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It reminds me a little of Wendy and Janie.

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I'd be most likely to use it as a pet form of Anne.

This message was edited 5/10/2018, 1:44 PM

I never got the appeal of this as a nn or a full name. Yeah, it's cute and sweet and spunky blah blah blah. But it's just so down-at-the-heel and dirt-road. It's cute the way a little barefoot kid with scraggly hair and a grubby face and hand-me-down dress is cute; a cheap "awwww!" and nothing more. Poverty as Marketing Gimmick, or something.
I think Little Orphan Annie's name was well-chosen. Whether her image is responsible for the image the name projects, or whether the name was chosen because it already projected that image, who knows?

I think Annie’s fine as a full name, and I wouldn’t expect an Annie to have a full name. I’m equally fine with it as a nn (and have considered it). It’s short and sweet, but with personality. I’ve thought about it as a nn for my top two names, Pandora and Evanthe, but I think Evanthe suits it better. My favourite more obvious full name that I’d actually use would probably be Annabeth, maybe Andromeda.

This message was edited 5/10/2018, 1:29 PM

I don't like it as a full name. Something about the -ie ending and how familiar Ann and Anna are make it feel completely nick-namey to me. I do love it as a nickname though. Some full names I like for it:

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Anais
Celandine
Elanor (maybe? Kind of a stretch)
Evangeline
Gloriana
Johanna
Susanna

This message was edited 5/10/2018, 1:19 PM

Not something I'd use but I think it functions fine as a full name and I do find it preferable to Anne, which is basically just a grunt imo.

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A friend of a friend just had a daughter and used Anie as a middle name. When I thought it was Annie (baby's dad apparently didn't know either and had to edit his facebook post), I actually thought it was cute as a middle name. Anie is gross though, I want to pronounce it like Ay-nee.

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DH has a cousin named Annie, always called Annie, but I found out that her real name is Andrea, so that's pretty cool. If I had to use Annie I'd probably go for something like Andromeda.