Am I crazy to name my next boy Laurence and call him Laurie?

I'm not even pregnant with my second child yet, but am already spiraling over this name that my husband and I both love but don't know if people will "get" it. (I have a girl name picked out from when my first was born that we know we'll use if we have a girl this time, so just want to have a boy name ready.) For context, my first son is named Adrien and as far as names for future kids go, we want to stick with a "European vibe" (though we are based in the US).

My husband and I haven't been able to settle on another boy name to-date. I really love the name Gabriel but my husband isn't on board. I also like Sylvan and Stellan but I feel a little bit of hesitancy on both of those for some reason. Maybe because they feel a little too "out there," which is why I'm surprised on the name that we both ended up really liking: Laurence. The plan would be to call him Laurie, like in Little Women. I know Lawrence/Laurence in itself is not "out there," but Laurie as a nickname for a boy definitely would be.

A few questions I'd like to crowdsource some answers for:

1. Is it weird/inconsistent if we name him Laurence which is actually the female version of the name in French (male would be Laurent but I don't think that fits easily enough into English for us)? I worry because we specifically used the French spelling of Adrien.

2. Are we damning our child for life with a nickname like Laurie? I know that once you get to know someone, their name just becomes their name and I think once people got used to it they wouldn't feel it was weird, but I don't want my son to always have to explain himself. We live in the metro area of a major city FWIW, which maybe makes it a little bit easier.

3. I do also have an Uncle Larry (Lawrence) who I am not particularly close to. I don't want it to feel weird if he thinks I'm naming my son after him lol. Does it seem strange to name my son a variation of his name?

4. I actually don't love the name Lawrence, even though it's pronounced exactly the same, it has a very different vibe to me than Laurence. This isn't really a question, just not sure how to feel about it.

5. Any other name suggestions based on this criteria? Last name begins with a C and is Italian.

6. Anyone else decide to go with a "risky" name and ended up really loving it (or hating it)?

Thank you!!