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If it's meant to be a familiar, personal nick, not one that he goes by generally, there's the possibility of elaboration. Being synthetic is fun if it's not trying to be natural. Like, I feel like Noll is really contrived and mawkish if you don't actually call him mine Oliver. I often call my daughter a name that is just a repetition of the last syllable of her name. I might call a son Oliver, Olla or Ollo as a personal nick. Ov or Ovvie sounds too babyish to me (dropping Rs and Ls usually sounds like babytalk). Maybe Ivvo (ih sound like in Oliver) or Livvo. I think Ollie Ed would be a cool mom-nickname to give to an Oliver Edwin, and you could refer to him by it as well as call him. But it'd seem self-conscious to introduce him that way to others.

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- mirfak

This message was edited 9/10/2020, 1:43 PM