Would this annoy you or am I being hormonal

Just name him Eddie? By naming him Edward and calling him Eddie you are already giving him a nickname and no one will be using his real name at all. He will likely get all the nicknames form everyone anyway. Ned, Ted, Teddie, Ed, Eddie and whatever else it can be shortened to.

People will give your kid nick names whether you like it or not…my kids have different names nicknames depending on family member !

You told them his name will be Edward but you’re CHOOSING to call him a nickname - Eddie therefore they can chose to call him a nickname too.

Even if you called him Eddie they’d probably still call him something different. It’s nothing to lose sleep over.

Why not just call him Eddie legally?

We have a name that has several abbreviations, one very popular but not the one we use. At nursery one person would use the most popular one and then wonder why my son would ignore them, one of his swimming teacher did the same 🤣 we effectively used our preferred form a lot whilst talking to him in front of them and they eventually got the point! It also can be a name in its own right and with two different spellings and people frequently spell it wrong, even though the way we spell it is a direct abbreviation of his full name 🤷🏼‍♀️

He now gets a bit funny when they have supply teachers who use his full name, he autistic and he knows that’s his full name but we rarely use it.

It’s so frustrating! We have a Theodore and we don’t shorten it, his grandparents call him Theo, it drives me mad, that’s not his name. His grand mum has chosen an unusual name for herself and we dare to slip up, she shouts at us!

It seems odd to give him one name on the birth certificate and insist people call him by another.

They bastardise their own names later in life too... my kids call each other by the first letters of their names. They have a million abbreviations and extensions of their names. It does not matter. He will be Eddie to you....

Ultimately you won't have any control over nicknames. My name has several abbreviations and I get called all of them by various people!

Please give him Edward on the bc! Nicknames are for being casual.

Unless its done with malice then I dont see what the drama is over a nickname. He's going to get loads of nicknames over the course of his life, are you going to police his friends like this?
I had a friend called Pat, a nickname for Patricia but if we phoned the house and asked for Pat, her mother hung up the phone saying "theirs no Pat in this house", we honestly thought she was a complete dick.

If they are doing it to be mean then I completely get the point. But if its their affectionate name for him then I think theres no harm in it.

I just don’t think it’s worth the atmosphere and bad blood. Life is short, in the grand scheme of things, so what? I don’t think my grandparents ever called me by my Christian name, they always called us by pet names and I loved it as a kid and now they aren’t with us anymore, and I hear other children being called it, it just reminds me of them.

I’ve never felt the need to police what someone who loves and cares for my girls calls them. My youngest really suits one nickname (imo) but other people call her a different one. Kids (and cats) answer to pretty much anything!

Both of my DS have names with 3 letters. We wanted to call them these names and didn't want people using longer or shorter versions. So they are there actual names - and their legal names. Simple.

I know a couple of little toddler Edwins- I think it's come back round.

Do you think that those family members have found a way to yank your chain?

Not hormonal, I have a Theodore who we cal Teddy a lot of family call him Theo - it’s not his name and it p’s us right off. We’ve corrected them constantly and they just ignore us and even buy him stuff with Theo on which I refuse to use! Some have openly said they dont like Theodore or Teddy and that’s why, they’ve been told it’s not their choice! He doesn’t answer them either when they call him Theo, I’m going to teach him to tell them “my names not Theo” to, can’t wait until he’s big enough to say it!

From someone who is legally called Charlene but always been known as Charlie, and I mean always - please just put Eddie on his birth cert. All my official docs, certificates degree etc is all in a name that I never use. Even at my wedding, some people were shocked when my real name was read out. Been a nightmare with hen doos and life admin etc. Just call him Eddie! He will be grateful 🙏

As someone who has never been called their “legal name” if you want to call him Eddie, put it on his birth certificate. It drives me nuts having to use my legal name for official things and at dr/hospital appointments when it’s literally not my name.

I’d sack off Edward and just go for
eddie personally. I absolutely detest people shortening mine or my kids names or changing them. I actively have chosen names that aren’t easily shortened or changed. And people
often comment on that instead 😂 my daughter is called Olive and someone once asked if I minded if they called her Ollie. And I was like, yes I do mind her name is Olive.
i feel if people go to the effort to choose a lovely name people should bloody well use it.

No help at all, but teddy is much nicer than Eddie!

I didn’t say hard work and precious for the question you asked, I said that in your responses after your first post.

The name Eddie is lovely, the name Teddy is also lovely, especially given the context of the person using it. Imo, to begrudge an 80 year old great grandma from using a nn, meant with much fondness just seems very sad. As others have said, you can’t dictate how others refer to your baby, or nn they give your baby, life just doesn’t work that way. I wish you all the best.

I have an Edward. We gave him that name because there are so many potential variations, thinking it would give him some ownership over his name in the future. Now he's verging on teenage years, he is very definitely Ted (unless he's being a pain, then he gets Edward!). I think don't worry about it - I'd have also been taken aback by someone deciding themselves what they were going to call him immediately after being told a name, but it won't pan out like that in reality I'm sure.

I wish my parents had put the name that they were going to call me on my birth certificate. It's so frustrating having to remember to use my official name on things like bank accounts, booking holidays etc when that name isn't me as I've never been called it. I made sure to name my children something that can't be shortened so they never have this issue.

We have a theodore - we call him Theo. He was introduced as Theo and had some blankets etc with Theo on. My nan called him ted once and was corrected. She never done it again

You can't control the world. Register him Edward, call him Eddie but accept many people will call him many names. My Mum called my DD Sunni as she said she was her little sunbeam, my daughters name is nowhere near that and doesn't begin with S but that is the name that was written on her birthday cards and . As long as your child is surrounded by love who cares what their Grandparents call them.