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Tom or Tommy?

33 replies

Unsureonwhat · 11/06/2016 18:08

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.

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 11/06/2016 18:10

Tom

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 19:36

Tom.

You can depend on a man called Tom.

daisydalrymple · 11/06/2016 19:37

Tom

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 11/06/2016 20:41

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

AStreetcarNamedBob · 11/06/2016 20:44

Tom on the BC sounds better.

LadyAntonella · 11/06/2016 20:45

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.

SuburbanRhonda · 11/06/2016 20:48

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.

SuburbanRhonda · 11/06/2016 20:49

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

sonlypuppyfat · 11/06/2016 20:50

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

CrowyMcCrowFace · 11/06/2016 20:52

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.

FizzyFeet · 11/06/2016 20:55

Another vote for Tom on the BC.

Portobelly · 11/06/2016 20:56

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

DramaAlpaca · 11/06/2016 20:58

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.

LotsofDots · 11/06/2016 20:58

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

Portobelly · 11/06/2016 21:02

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

NapQueen · 11/06/2016 21:04

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.

sonlypuppyfat · 11/06/2016 21:07

It's my cats name Grin

EllenDegenerate · 11/06/2016 21:10

Tom is solid, considered, reliable, impeccably mannered.

Tommy is handsome, rebellious, intelligent, non conformist.

Who do you want your son to be?

DontKillMyVibe · 11/06/2016 21:17

Tom

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

MitzyLeFrouf · 11/06/2016 21:25

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

I still prefer Tom though.

Ellie06 · 11/06/2016 21:34

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

skankingpiglet · 11/06/2016 21:42

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.

Sophronia · 11/06/2016 22:33

Tom and you could use Tommy as a nn

user1463864877 · 11/06/2016 23:38

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

septembersunshine · 12/06/2016 10:10

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.

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