Shortening names that end with 'a'

My name's Julia and I actually hate it when people shorten it to Julie. It's not much shorter and it sounds like a completely different name to me, it's not that I dislike the name so much as it doesn't feel like mine.

It would bother me if the shortened name was being used as a nickname, but as a name on it's own I don't have a problem with them, in fact, I usually like them better.

I do have a friend named Julia, and everyone, her family included, calls her Julie, which is the weirdest thing to me. If you wanted your kid to be named Julie why name her Julia?

for names like

diana diane

helena helen

christina christine

i think both versions of the name are nice. but if the name is ending in a and people call them the wrong version. that would make me very mad. i have heard this happen to a johanna called joanne. and christina called christine. i feel its offensive and disrespectful to not say someones name right in this case.

I find it irritating, but that happens with a lot more than just names ending in "a." I have a really good friend who's name is Alexiys (a-lex-ee-iss) and that's what she wants to go by and she introduces herself as but everyone shortens it to Alex or Lex and she hates it. 

I understood from your first post what you meant, haha. I agree that it is bothersome because shortening an a-ending name does not make it a nickname! Isabelle is a separate name, not a nickname for Isabella. In terms of your friend Helena (which I also love), Lena or Leni might be a suitable nickname, but Helen is just a different name. I totally get what you mean!

Oh, well then, that would bug me, too.  I understand much better now!  haha.  My top choice is Isabelle, and many people just assume it's Isabella because Isabella's much more popular.  I love Isabella, too, but her name would be Isabelle not Isabella.

Although I think some people might not mind--I know Sophie is a common nn for Sophia, for example--but the Helena "Helen" thing would bug me, especially if I didn't like Helen (which I don't, really.  Nowhere near as much as Helena).

It seems like a pretty common thing, though, that people do.  :/

In that case, yes it would bug me.

I think I worded it wrong. This is exactly what I mean, i have a friend called Helena and people constantly decide that she doesn't need the a and call her Helen. She hates it when people do it. Why do they do it, if someones given a name then thats their name unless they like to shorten it. It just bugs me. :) Danielle xxx 

Unless you mean people mistakenly calling a woman Diane when her name is Diana or something like that. I once knew a lady who called Christina Aguilera "Christine Aguilera" and it bugged me an eensy bit, but that's all.

It doesn't bother me at all, considering Helen, Christine, and Diane are all legitimate names. Christine and Diane are simply the French forms of Christina and Diana, and Helena is an elaboration of Helen (meaning Helen came first). So it's not as if somebody arbitrarily decided to drop the final letter.

What does bother me, though, is the recent trend of eliminating the first sound of a popular name to make it "unique." Briella, Akayla, Arissa, Sabella, etc. 

No, it doesn't bother me at all.  The names that don't have the -a ending are usually just a different variant of the other name (like Sophia as opposed to Sophie; Isabella as opposed to Isabelle, etc.)--Sophia is the Greek form; Sophie is the French part; Isabella's the Italian form; Isabelle's the French form; Isabel's the Spanish form; Isobel's the Scottish one.  I don't have a problem with it at all.  In fact, I seem to prefer the non-"A" endings, personally.  :)

I have to say, at least with the examples you have listed, I don't like it at all. I usually like names ending in "a" to begin with and the other ones sound more dated to me.