AIBU to think that children should know their full name by Y11?

[PurplePenguins]

I've just had parents evening at DS3s school. At the same time was a GCSE check in. Y11 pupils were bringing in ID so the right name is printed on their GCSE certificates. While I was waiting I heard several children saying "I don't know" when asked their full name and saw them getting out BC or passports to check. It is a very ethnically diverse school but AIBU to think children should know their full name at the age of 15/16 yo even if they are known by another name?

ZOMBIE!

@CasperGutman
I have the same issue with my name. My parents didn't speak English very well and so when they registered my birth my dad pronounced a as e and so my birth certificate has my name down with an e. I only found out when applying for a passport at 15 so my official documents have one spelling but I use another. The pronunciation for both is two different names, everyone has always used the non birth certificate one.

Of course they should know their full names by that age. Most little kids know what their full names are.

I knew my name, but not how to spell my middle name, (commonish with many variants). I learnt in order to be able to write it at the top of my exam papers. I never used my middle name and could go from one year to the next without having to spell it. That’s still true 30+ years later.

My mum grew up thinking her name was Jane and found out my grandfather had official named her Jayne when she moved out and needed her birth certificate. Not her actual name but its another name like that.

@PurplePenguins
My birth certificate, baptism certificate and driving licence and passport have different names - in fact as a dual national I have two passports and they have different names.
Which name do I have to give for a GCSE certificate?

I know someone whose father registered her with the wrong date of birth, she has the wrong date on her birth certificate! I understand why she may hesitate, depending on the circumstances, before answering “What is your date of birth?”

To spell Michael correctly I use a trick a boy called Michael told me. The A&E go in alphabetical order I always remember that.

To the previous poster who mentioned car number plates
I once had a car that was W603HRP on the front and W630HRP on the back.
Realised when I took it for an MoT.
I had been driving round for 11 months.
All my papers matched the front plate.
All seemed correct. Never occurred to me that I needed to check the back end too.
Where it was parked for MoT, the guy asked which was my car. I said W603HRP
And he repeated back to me W630HRP
No, W603..
Are you sure? That one says 630.