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DrJoanAllenby · 07/05/2024 10:16

I also have a dog called Bobby.

I don't think the name looks good in a professional setting such as a job application.

Robert and then call him Bobby as a family/Nick name.

Apollo365 · 07/05/2024 10:13

Oh Robin is cute

margegunderson · 06/05/2024 22:37

Ok forget all the cv stuff - your son might want a more serious and less informal name when he hits adulthood. At least call him Robin everyday use Bobby (not Bobbie - that's the feminine version and would be as daft as the name Harrie attached to one poor child I met)

PadstowGirl · 06/05/2024 22:11

I think it's definitely becoming more popular, I know 2 baby Bobbies, both sets of parents are hipster/ trendy and very well educated professionals.

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LoubyLou92 · 06/05/2024 20:07

KateJ521 · 06/05/2024 19:19

OP you seem dead set on the name so should go for it.

Strangely I’m actually not! I do like the name and I’d always written it off thinking it was too popular, so thought I’d see peoples thoughts. It’s just one of a few names we’re considering ☺️

I just disagree quite strongly with some of the comments being made so may have come across overly passionate about it! 😂

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thisiswheretheseagullfliesaway · 06/05/2024 19:32

I've a teen one. Suits him perfectly.

It's good enough for the Assistant Chief Constable in Northern Ireland doesn't seem to have held his career back.

KateJ521 · 06/05/2024 19:19

OP you seem dead set on the name so should go for it.

FiveFoxes · 06/05/2024 11:16

The only Bobby I know (actual name) shortened it to Bob as a Teen. So long as you also like Bob.

That goes for all names you can shorten - you have to like the variations too.

(This thread reminded me of Friends: "your doctor's called Bobby Bobby?!")

VladimirVsVolodymyr · 06/05/2024 11:07

My son's friend is Bobby. He's 11 years old. Not sure if that's his full name. He also gets called Bob (his mum), Bobster (by me) and all sorts in between. Nice enough name, if that's what you like, go for it.

LuluBlakey1 · 06/05/2024 10:58

LoubyLou92 · 04/05/2024 14:14

Thoughts on the name Bobby for a boy? I like both spellings Bobby and Bobbie. Is it really common? I prefer less common names for girls but struggling to find a less common boy name.

Also - I do not like Robert so the name would be Bobby.

It's awful.

Apollo365 · 06/05/2024 10:57

Bobby is very cute! Defo use Y not IE.
however, sorry to say I’d also go full name on birth certificate. It gives options for the future.

sunglassesonthetable · 06/05/2024 10:53

It's not common but it is common. What if little Bobby wants to be a Barrister or a Pathologist? I really don't like these types of names, each to his own but I tend not to feel inclined towards the job applications from Dotty and Charlieeeiey. They just sound like they will be useless

This always gets trotted out. Honestly we don't live in the 1950s anymore.

Pathologists and Barristers have ALL SORTS of names. And rightly so.

Mimi987 · 05/05/2024 22:44

I know 4 Bobbys!

AhNowTed · 05/05/2024 17:41

@LoubyLou92

"I do not think Bobby sounds unprofessional at all."

Neither do I.

Some of these posts are ridiculous.

And since when is Charlie unprofessional. Seriously, some folks 🙄

DietrichandDiMaggio · 05/05/2024 16:38

And as, unusually for Mumsnet, nobody else has yet, can I point out that what we are actually talking about, e.g. Mike for Michael etc., are diminutives, not nicknames.

DietrichandDiMaggio · 05/05/2024 16:36

mitogoshi · 05/05/2024 12:23

@Plate24

I was about to say the same. I've worked in hr and we discarded applications which had names that we didn't believe suited the professional image they needed, this included people who put nickname sounding names eg Charlie or Jamie. In the office people used nicknames that wasn't an issue we (well HR director) had a thing for formality and image. I shorten my name but my legal name is a "proper" one. Not the only hr dept that I've come across this either as I've temped in other places with similar if not quite so draconian policies.

You seriously would discard the CV because someone called themself Kate, Tom or Sam, instead of Katherine, Thomas or Samuel?

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LoubyLou92 · 05/05/2024 15:45

SagePenguin · 05/05/2024 13:34

That's really very discriminatory

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Completely agree! And think that’s more of a reflection on the company…

I do work in a job of a professional background, despite was seems to be believed by previous posters who seem to think I am being naive to what names people need to have to work professionally. I won’t disclose my role but I speak to solicitors and people within the court system on at least a weekly basis if not more frequently. What I will say is I have worked alongside Alfie’s, Charlie’s, Toby’s amongst other nickname names and I have never thought to myself “Goodness, a solicitor called Toby, he clearly can’t do his job”. I do not believe someone’s name is a reflection on their capabilities or professionalism, and any person or company who does have that belief are extremely small minded.

I do not think Bobby sounds unprofessional at all. I would not call him Robert (a name I actually dislike) just to be able to call him Bobby. If I decide against Bobby I will simply choose a different name all together.

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SagePenguin · 05/05/2024 13:34

mitogoshi · 05/05/2024 12:23

@Plate24

I was about to say the same. I've worked in hr and we discarded applications which had names that we didn't believe suited the professional image they needed, this included people who put nickname sounding names eg Charlie or Jamie. In the office people used nicknames that wasn't an issue we (well HR director) had a thing for formality and image. I shorten my name but my legal name is a "proper" one. Not the only hr dept that I've come across this either as I've temped in other places with similar if not quite so draconian policies.

That's really very discriminatory

Noonecaresifyounamechange · 05/05/2024 13:32

Needanewname42 · 05/05/2024 12:46

@mitogoshi does the same thing happen with women? Lots of females have very cutesie nickname sounding formal names like Lucy, Ellie type names.

Lucy isn’t a nickname.

The same treatment would be given to a “Mel” instead of Melissa, or “Lizzie” : Elizabeth, “Sash” : Sasha.

Needanewname42 · 05/05/2024 12:46

@mitogoshi does the same thing happen with women? Lots of females have very cutesie nickname sounding formal names like Lucy, Ellie type names.

sawnotseen · 05/05/2024 12:46

I love Bobby - it's my son's friends name (20). My friends dad is Robert but he's Bob and Bobby is Bobby!
My female cousin is Bobbie (60) but her real name is Beverley which she hates so has gone by Bobbie since her teens and made her parents call her Bobbie (I dont even think her adult kids know her real name as she tells them it's Roberta!)

mitogoshi · 05/05/2024 12:23

@Plate24

I was about to say the same. I've worked in hr and we discarded applications which had names that we didn't believe suited the professional image they needed, this included people who put nickname sounding names eg Charlie or Jamie. In the office people used nicknames that wasn't an issue we (well HR director) had a thing for formality and image. I shorten my name but my legal name is a "proper" one. Not the only hr dept that I've come across this either as I've temped in other places with similar if not quite so draconian policies.

mitogoshi · 05/05/2024 12:14

Can you see your now adult son putting Bobby on his cv, on business cards? Isn't he better off having a formal name and she use Bobby as a nickname? Honestly I feel sorry for these kids when they are adults. My cousins son changed his name at 21 to the formal version of his name as he was given the cute nickname as a his legal name at birth. He never uses his old name

Needanewname42 · 05/05/2024 11:45

TheChosenTwo · 05/05/2024 01:23

@Needanewname42 i think Bobby/boabby/willy may be a Scottish association as mentioned upthread, I’ve never heard anyone here in the SE using the word Bobby to mean your dick!
I’ve heard Corey though used as willy, so I’d never use that name 😂 every time I hear Cory/corey (rare) I think dick.

I've never heard of Corey. And if someone told me that I think I'd make sure they had an alternative name. Because you never know how these words are going to take off.

But a Google on the word Boabie.Boabie
It's about half way through.

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SagePenguin · 05/05/2024 11:17

If it's very important to future Bobby to have a different name, he can change it.
He probably won't though. But he could.
So the posts fretting about how it'll affect his career prospects are irrelevant.
@LoubyLou92 you call your little one what you like! 💐