Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

To the parents who use diminutives!

27 replies

Sunflowersandsandals · 10/09/2018 13:35

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but thought as it’s name related why not.

So day to day my daughter goes by a diminutive (Think Libby rather than Elizabeth, Dotty rather than Dorothy etc) my question is, which name do I teach her to write?! She’s almost school age so I want to start teaching her little bits to get her ready but I don’t want to confuse her.
She will be ‘Elizabeth’ on all her school documents etc but her known as name will be ‘Libby’ which name will teachers teach her to write?

P.S we used the ‘full’ name on BC to give her a more ‘grown up’ option she can use in later life if she chooses to.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Sunflower321 · 10/09/2018 14:02

I would teach her full name, especially if that's the name on her report cards etc.

Nicknames can change and her friends might choose a different one to yours at home.

ThomasRichard · 10/09/2018 13:38

The name she uses day-to-day. Teachers are very used to it and will have no problem used the diminutive for registration, name-spelling etc. Whenever I’ve registered my DC for school or clubs, there’s always been a space for a ‘would like to be known as’ name.

Swipe left for the next trending thread