Tom or Tommy?

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I do not want him to be Thomas, so please don't suggest that - even if you prefer it.

Should we use Tom or Tommy, on the BC? We will call him both, whichever one we put on the BC. However, I prefer Tommy.

Tom

Tom.

You can depend on a man called Tom.

Tom

Tom. They always seem to be gentlemanly and very handsome.

Tom on the BC sounds better.

Tom is lovely (I prefer it to Thomas). Tommy is a lovely nn but you never know with names like that if your DS might find it babyish as he gets older. Some boys / men wouldn't mind and would pull it off but I imagine some wouldn't like it. I knew an adult Ricky and a Jamie who both loved their names though.

Ok, so you've rejected Thomas but can I ask why? Just it might ne nice for him to have a choice if he hates having a really short name that you can't do anything with.

Tommy is very popular in the travelling community (we have a lot of travellers in our school).

Thomas is a lovely name at least you'll be giving him a choice

Could you live with Tomas?

I have a colleague called Jo who gets irritated constantly confirming that she is not Joanna, Joanne or josephine.

Tom is so widely understood to be a diminutive that I suspect he'd spend a boring amount of time correcting assumptions that he is 'officially' Thomas.

Another vote for Tom on the BC.

Tom is a name in its own right, not a shortening of Thomas.
www.thejc.com/judaism/jewish-words/tam
Meaning Whole and Unblemished.

Tom.

I know two Toms who are just Tom, not Thomas on their birth certs, and it hasn't done either of them any harm.

Tom. I always wanted a Tom, but it is precluded by surname.

We named our son Tom, based on its Hebrew meaning.
biblehub.com/hebrew/8537.htm
Completeness and integrity.

It has a different root to Thomas, which is Greek

Tom.

I've a daughter with a shortened version as her full name and only twice in nearly five years has anyone ever called her the potential look her version.

It's my cats name

Tom is solid, considered, reliable, impeccably mannered.

Tommy is handsome, rebellious, intelligent, non conformist.

Who do you want your son to be?

Tom

Men drinking Buckfast with their tops off are called Tommy. Well they are near me anyway.

I had an uncle called Tommy and he was the gentlest, shyest man in the world and teetotal too!

I still prefer Tom though.

If you want him to be different to other kids I'd go for Tommy, I'm a teacher and we have loads of Tom's in school, but no Tommys

Out of those two I'd pick Tom. Tommy doesn't work for me as an adult name, but makes sense as a child's NN which he could carry through to grownup life if he wanted.

Tom and you could use Tommy as a nn

Tom. Just as the last two posters said Tommy works as a nickname if you fancy then.

Tom. Just that. You could always use the nickname Tommy if you feel like it, as a cute baby/small child thing that may follow him into adulthood if he wants, but just Tom on the bc would be fine imo.