Do you call your DC by their full name or a shortened version?

some and some

Caitlin occasionally gets shortened to Caty - which is what she calls herself, and also what her friends call her

Charlie is really Charles and uses both.

however ds1,2 and dd2 all get called their full names

DS's 1 - 4 get called their full names apart from silly nn I give them. DS5's name is always shortened and he is called by his shortened name at school as they ask what their preferred name is.

2 middle names isn't overkill, I have two and so does DS1, both after family members. I'd say 4 or more is overkill!

I have a John known as Jack, always intended this to be the case, named after grandfathers. We also have an Anna known as Annie, decided on by big brother the first time he met her.

I've been shortened my whole life. I don't recognise my full name as me.
I don't shorten DH, work do, his parents didn't.

DD1 sometimes, but I often have a different nn for her entirely.

Everyone shortens DD2 so I do sometimes too, but I prefer her full name.

If she's annoying she gets her cute petname in public

DD1 is Helena, but always called Len. She has friends who don't believe her name is Helena.

DD2 always called Fliss.

DD3 is Miranda, called Miri, 'baby Randa' by the older two or Moo.

too long; and seems. Jesus!

DD1 is Catherine, never shortened (I sometimes call her Catarina, which annoys her); DD2 is Anastasia which just seems to long and grand for a smiley, cheery little round cheeked baby, so she seem to have become Annie. For now...

we use both, not intended, just sort of evolved. DD is either/or and loves both names, she herself prefers the shortened version and is mostly known as this at school etc, but also chops and changes and becomes her full name too.

DS is only 2, but has just started to assert from time to time that he is his full name, not his shortened name, but responds to both, we are starting to call him his full name more now.

Samuel here as well
Known as Sam, Sammy or Samjam

It is bizarre. DD is Meg.

She gets Meggy-Moo, Megatron, Megalicious, Meglet, Megalice (her MN is Alice, Godson thinks this NN makes her sound like a Pokemon apparently), and for some strange reason, Peggy.

All of mine have names that can be shortened, but whether I use shortened versions or not depends - probably more than half of the time, though (unless DSM is around - she loves their full names, and berates me for using shortened versions ).

We have considered various shortened versions of names (Joe and Kit spring to mind) and with both of those had decided we would just use them on the birth certificate (rather than e.g. Joseph or Christopher). In the end, we decided against both of them, so not an issue!

Samuel here too and gets Sam or Sammy mostly.

Samuel known as Sam, also 2 middle names.

I thought about this long and hard with my son. We wanted to call him Herbie and we contemplated putting Herbert on the birth certificate. In the end we decided on Herbie for the birth certificate as that was what we were going to call him day to day and thought it might be confusing for a child who has been called Herbie since starting school and then on his first day of school the teacher says "herbert" when calling out the register. I also though if we are never going to use the full name what is the point, if he think Herbie sounds childish then he can call himself "herb", but with so many children's names ending in ie these days i don't think they will see these names as babyish.

only 1 out of our 3 get called whole/real name.

dd is nickname
ds2 is shortened version

We put a shortened version of a name on the birth certificate as we love the shortened version but were only 'meh' about the longer/official versions.

We actually call her by a multitude of very long nicknames so she never really gets her proper name.

I don't shorten my grown up childrens names , but other people do ,it never bothered me really.

Nicknames just sort of happen imo .

I don't shorten my dd's name, but other people do and I hate it as it isn't one that can be shortened!!

We sometimes call our ds Quinn or Quenny but mostly he is Quentin.

No, we chose two short, two syllable names for our ds's which are just fine as they are.

We have no plans to shorten them, who knows what their friends will decide as they get older though!

me and dp have a difference of opinion on this as well. Our ten month old daughter is called Amelia. I often like to call her Millie as does FIL and occassionally dps sis does too, but dp always uses her full name as he prefers to because "thats her name" and mil says she will not call her Millie at all either. Fair enough she may well grow up preferring Amelia, but at the moment I love calling her my little Millie Moo. :o