Shortened/NN's on birth certificate?

[LadyCLC]

If your choice of name is a shortened name/NN e.g.

Jamie (James)
Tommy (Thomas)
Will (William)
Ollie (Oliver) etc

& the shortened version is the name you wish everyone to call the child should you put that on the birth cert or put the long version for official documents? thoughts please?

Thanks

[nickelbabysnatcher]

I prefer long names on birth certificates, but both of my sisters have children that have short names on the BC, so that is their official name.

I prefer to give the child a choice when they get older.
eg: Tommy sounds fine for a child, but for a 40year old solicitor?

[maxpower]

Two of my nephews have shortened names which are on their birth certficates.

My sister has her full name on her birth certificate and hates it - so she's got her shortened version on anything she can get away with.

You can't win!

[nickelbabysnatcher]

I deliberatly used Tommy rather than Tom in my example, because Tom is fine as a full name. :)

[LadyCLC]

I have to say I think I agree with having the long version on certificate but trying to convince DH of this is another matter! The 2 names we love are Tommy and Will but he doesnt want to put Thomas as our nephew is Thomas and he doesnt like William!! So he will only go with the short names, are there any other long names these could be nicknames for??? Please help, I am driving myself mad with this dilemna now..... thanks

[PepsiPopcorn]

There are a few other boys names that Tom or Will could be short for, but some of them are more unusual... Tomlin, Tomkin, Tomeo, Tomaso, Wilfred, Wilbur, Wilson, Wilford, Wilmore.

[LadyCLC]

Thanks...

we quite liked Wilson but then when I asked for opinions on here I got a lot of people saying it was a Surname and it seems very unpopular - I dont want the poor boy to have 'mick' taken out of him because of his name - its a tough one

[nickelbabysnatcher]

I like Wilfred.