To tell them their baby name options aren’t great?

I like Tiggi, I always assumed it was short for Antigone (which I also like).

Please don't interfere.

I've never met anybody with either of those exact names, but I've met plenty of children with similar types of names, and it didn't seem to cause any problems.

FWIW, I know of a Bertie (not short for anything) who must now be about 27 and is a qualified teacher. Having a cutesy name in a generation full of cutesy names isn't going to hold people back as much as it might have done at a time when everyone else was called Peter and Susan.

Oh agreed. I don’t like my name much. It is a name of its time and dated. There aren’t many of us and we’re all over 60.

Of course but children are aware their parents chose a name for them so certainly in the past it might have felt rude, changing your name.
Possible to do it legally of course. Just so much easier if they get a formal form of a name to begin with.
Now of course they might just say that their parents called them x but they have chosen to change it to y.

If people called Edward can call themselves Teddy, then people called Teddy can call themselves Edward.

It's not a law or anything.

Decades ago I had a young relative named Vicki on her birth certificate. She had to spend so much time correcting people who wrote down ‘Victoria’ when that was not legally her name that it would have driven me round the bend if I’d had to do it. At least Tiggi and Gigi are not common diminutives.

It didn’t bother her though, she just kept correcting everything and as a cleaner didn’t need a ‘shit hot lawyer’ name.

This was fifty years ago - I don’t think shortened or cute ‘made up’ names as given names are an issue at all now.

Tiggi or Gigi would be totally normal to anyone in this generation, and there must be loads of babies being called Gigi at the moment because its popular with influencers and, of course, there’s Gigi Hadid.

I’m only 54 but have a very, very dull 1950’s name and sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a lovely modern name of my choosing.

whilst not ones I’d choose id rather those over Bonnie Blue right now; a name I have actually seen for a newborn

Vogue Williams?

I know, I just think it's nice to have the option.

It's popular now though so Teddy's peers are far more likely to be Alfie, Freddie, Bertie, Bobby etc than traditional 'full names'.

Teddy is hardly going to stick out.

Oh no. Absolutely no. You need the shit hot lawyer name conversation. Friend's grandson is 'Teddy'. Not Edward, Teddy. I guess he can be Ted but honestly, do people think their children never grow up?

I know a Gigi who proper name is Georgia. Tiggy is a cute possible shortening for Tabitha. I don’t hate those names. I was expecting something worse.

Gigi is quite popular now and it's a lovely name! Tiggi I'm not so sure on.

I don't like the names. I work in a school and we currently have a Tiggy - I think it sounds like a name someone would pick for a cat or dog. If I had to pick then GIgi. However, it's your son and DIL's choice, not yours. I wouldn't say a word. It's possible they may change their mind, especially once the baby is born. My neighbours granddaughter is called Sissy, which I think is just as dreadful, if not worse!!

I quite like Tiggi! Think I’m in the minority though 🤣

Both my kids (now young adults) have a full name but use the diminutive, and have since birth. The full name is an inconvenience really. It’s like using a different name altogether to them in certain settings.
I wish I hadn’t bothered and just called them their shorter names.

At least the child would go through life with a good conversational ice breaker I guess!

Fair enough, I just think it's reasonable for the parents to at least know where the name comes from, or what it means.
I genuinely (some years ago, pre-internet) heard two women on the bus discussing whether Bianca was Italian for black, or for white. They concluded it was 'black', 'because it starts with B', and therefore a suitable name for the imminent baby that one of them was carrying.

So what? Susie is a diminutive of Susanna, but also a name in its own right. Ella is a diminutive of various names, but also a name in its own right. Plenty more examples are available.

But Colette's Gigi is a diminutive of Gilberte.

I think they're both quite sweet (although I think Tiggy is better than Tiggi). I particularly like Gigi. If you have a good relationship, I'd maybe say you prefer them as shortened forms for longer/formal names to give more options.

But I think all the "they'll be teased" worries are not so much of an issue anymore as it was in the 70s/80s/90s because names are more varied now. My DS is 13 and has said that his peers don't generally get teased over names either at primary or secondary. They just accept more varied names now (he had a Mystique in his class!) and I actually love it! I have one more modern and one more traditional name for my two DC but I love the variety of names now and think it helps reduce bullying as there aren't a standard set of 30 or so names that everyone has.

I don’t remember the thread but I hope the general consensus was that the grandmother was behaving terribly if she chose not to use her grandchild's name because she didn’t like it.

Your grandchildren are your business in the sense you love and are invested in them. They are not in that grandparents should not expect to be involved in parenting decisions. The clue is in the name, that is the job of the parents!

OMG Tiggi and Jiggy (that's how I'm saying it...) So bloody cute! (for kittens)
Love it..

Gigi is fine. It's French. It's from a famous film. Tiggi makes me think of the appalling socialite and Royal family nanny, Tiggy Legg Baulk (or however it was spelt). Encourage Gigi.

If you raised it with them then the chances are others will say the same and maybe the penny will drop. If not shrug your shoulders and let it pass. There are worse things in life than having a shortened name.