Why didnt Lincoln like the name Abe?

Answer 1

We reflexively call Lincoln "Abe," in keeping with the familiarity we feel for our beloved 16th president. But we wouldn't have called him that to his face. He had wanted to escape rural poverty to achieve respectability, and had a formidable sense of his own dignity. So he didn't like the diminutive Abe. At his law office, according to historian David Herbert Donald, he called his younger partner William Herndon "Billy"; Herndon called him "Mr. Lincoln." His wife, too, called him "Mr. Lincoln"; before they had children and he began calling her "Mother," he addressed her as "Puss," "little woman," or "child wife."