Having the name, Dick, is cool. It’s short for Richard. That’s no problem unless you find yourself in situations where you might be singled out by name amongst a group. For example, someone might say “My  friends include two really smart Williams, one athletic Joseph, three short Henrys, and a big Dick.” I think that might have been one of the reasons the singer, “Little Richard” (Richard Wayne Penniman), chose to stick with the full pronunciation of his first name.

None of my siblings ever tried to embarrass me, as immature kids often do,  by referring to me by that moniker in public because I am an only child and my name is Ragina.