Do you call your child by their full first name?

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I'm just wondering really what others do
My daughter has two first names but I just call her by the first one. I'll sometimes add her second one but not often.

However a friend of mine has a daughter (let's call her Sarah-Jane) and she insists everyone says her full name when addressing her and not just Sarah.
I have met quite a few people through work who have two first names but just go by the first one and I just thought maybe I should calling my daughter by both of her names so she is used to it.
Idk just a thought. Would like other opinions...

All I'd caution against is bringing up your child to be one of those adults who insists on always being "Sarah-Lou" whilst everyone around them has multiple nicknames. Because all they'll do is mark themselves out as being precious and create a barrier between them and others. So I'd try to call them sometimes by their full name, sometimes by part of it and definitely don't 'correct' any family or friends who come up with their own affectionate monikers (unless there are particular versions that your CHILD doesn't like (or are offensive).

My son's name is only three letters long and it still frequently gets shortened.

Only if they're in trouble

DGD has a three syllable name which has always been shortened, but at 6 has now requested that her full name is used.

The whole point of calling a child Sarah-Jane instead of Sarah Jane is so the names don't get separated.

I wince a bit when I read baby naming threads that include "nn" and "go by". Especially if the starting point is "Which name if I want to use X as nn?" It seems so contrived.
Just name your child what you want to call them, people.
To answer your question, yes, I call my DC by their full names as I have deliberately given them names where this is the most obvious thing to do.

I never shorted my childrens names.

there are popular shortening's of all 3 of them but I don’t do it. A bit like Theodore but they never get Theo. If I wanted to call them the shortened name that’s what I would have called them

Yeah i feel that too. I think a nickname or shortening will happen organically

One of my DC has a diminutive name and I often call him the full version.
One has a long version and prefers to be called the short version.
One has a short name and gets called that with either Bob or y added on.
One has a diminutive name and gets called an even shorter version.

This.

Our daughter started nurses a couple of weeks ago, we had to tell them that if she doesn’t respond to her name they might need to call her by her nickname as we very rarely use her actual name, to the extent that my son tells people he has a little sister called fart arse.

My childrennhave 1 first name 2 middle names. 1 surname I call them by their first name.

Niece has a hyphenated first name like Anne-Marie. I call her Anne-Marie. That's her name not simply Anne or Marie. Had she preference either I'd likely use that but she likes both.

My dd has a long first name intentionally chosen so it could be shortened as mine can't.

Unless I'm writing her name, I hardly ever shorten it.

DD has just the 1 name +surname. I never shorten it and DD doesn't like her name being shortened (there is no short version of her name anyway). Even as a child DD would always refuse to answer to anything but her full 1st name.

My daughter has a double first name, hyphenated. She introduced herself as the first part, but friends and family call her a shortened nickname

DD has a nickname version of a name, and is on her BC as such. She loves it and has told me repeatedly that she hates it if anyone calls her anything else. So if she was Penny she'd hate being Penelope. It's not a name you can shorten though, so she has an unrelated nickname.

DS's name is short, so he gets a Y added to the end. He came home from preschool last year upset that "they call me [Name]!" and when I reminded him that it was actually his name, he wailed and said "no, it's [NAME]-Y!"

I have 2 names and both were used. When i started secondary school I rebelled and only told people my first name. My family still use both names( doesn't bother me) but everyone else just my first. At my dad's funeral my friends were surprised to hear my full name.
Go with what you prefer they may make their own choice later on.

I once knew a woman and both her and her dsis had 6 dc each. All had double barrelled names. Blew my mind being around them.
Once my ds was in hospital and there was a beautiful toddler in there. Her name - used in all its glory every time - was Gloria-Victoria!!

I have a name that sounds like two separate names but isn't. All my friends colleagues call me by the first part of my name. But parents do not and my husband isn't allowed to address me in front of my parents without saying my full name. When I was a child if someone called me and asked for me using the first part they would say noone lived there by that name 🤣 it was a bit over the top considering they always shortened my siblings names.

We also had to announce to nursery that he might call himself something utterly unrelated to his name... In our mild defence he'd learned to speak during lockdown and so the only people that had talked to him were me and DP who called him by a pet name! Now he's known by his full, short 4 letter first name. We intentionally chose one that couldn't be shortened.

Like a PP mine in their twenties have ridiculous nicknames from way back when that DH and I call them-they just stuck.
Their friends call them their surname with a Y on the end.

Sometimes I wonder why we bothered with their names at all 😂

That said we didn’t have all this baby name angst about not being able to shorten them, or whether all the names ‘matched’ that I read about on here. Just gave them names 🤷‍♀️

My sons both have conventional single syllable first names that we use (ignoring middle names).

DS1 has however taken to using the Spanish pronunciation of DS2's name giving it two syllables. Sometimes you just can't win 🤣.

I think this might be a class thing. I am often corrected by DS's friends parents that they are actually 'Dominica MARIE' rather than just the overly long, strangely regal sounding name which I have only just learnt to spell. Only exception is the Lily Mae, Daisy Lou, Kayla Jae brigade.
My DC's both have two syllable names, which I shorten. Sometimes I just call them the first letter of their name. My parents hate it. Say my daughter is Lydia, I'll be there calling 'Lyds! Lyds! Ly! L!!!' Until she answers.
But then I'm pretty common, me

Eldest has a name which can’t be shortened but I usually call him a totally unrelated nickname from when he was a baby and at 21 he doesn’t even bat an eyelid when I call him that

DD has a beautiful first name which is shortened 99.9% of the time. Most of her friends probably don’t know she has a longer name and I only call her it if I am cross but it’s such a lovely name I don’t regret giving it to her

youngest is almost always called by his full name. Family do shorten it sometimes but generally he goes by either his full name or o call him by a totally ridiculous nickname he has had since he was a baby

Most people I know nowadays seem to shorten their child's name to the first part of their double name. So Eva Rose is Eva etc. When I was growing up, though, there were loads of people with double first names and they were rarely shortened. I'm in NI, so there were lots of Anne Marie's, Marie Therese's, Marie Claire's and Margaret Mary's. It was just sort of accepted that these names would not be separated. Some were hyphenated, some not. I remember a colleague called Margaret Mary saying that she hoped she was never in a situation where someone could potentially save her from being run over by a bus, because by the time they got her name out, she'd be squashed flat🤣🤣

Both children have a 2 syllable name - my DD gets shortened but my DS does not.

I purposely chose them because I thought people would be hard pushed to come up with a shortened version but alas they found one for DD (which I hate!)