Help settle an argument; shortening Finley

[NiceToesNaughtyToes]

DP and I love the name Finley, but disagree over the shortening.

We want to call him Finn for short but DP feels, in order to use the double N, we'd need to incorporate it into the full name, spelling it "Finnley"

I on the other hand think it's fine to name him Finley (with a single N) and use Finn as the shortening... I've always come across it this way!!

Anyone up for helping settle this?!

I think the usual way is Finley shortened to Finn.

Please don't spell it Finnley. He will spend his entire life correcting people and somehow it sort of spoils the name for me...

He is all kinds of wrong. Finnley is illiterate.

It's completely normal to spell a shortening with extra letters.

It's fine to do it your way. People do that with other names e.g. Stephen to Steve

I work for a company that has hundreds of kids on its database, we have about 15 Finleys all shortened to Finn, all spelt with one N in long name & 2 Ns in short name

My ds is Fynn. .

I have a Finley, Finn for short of course. My niece is Harriet, harts for short. I assume your dh would have argued to call her hartsrriet? Or hazrriet if you want a more usual nickname...

oh there's lots of people called "John" who's actual birth certificate says "Jonathan" rather than "Johnathan". Finley is perfectly normal spelling of the 'proper' name, if you want to call him Finn, then that's fine too as it's only a nickname and so doesn't really matter how closely it links to the original 'real' name.

You're right. There are lots of shortened versions of names that have slightly different letters to the longer version - Tom/Thomas, Jim/James, Ellie/Eleanor, Vicky/Victoria etc.

Though if you want to call him Finn you could just do that as it is a proper name in its own right and much nicer than Finley (in my opinion) which looks as if it's a misspelling of Finlay.

Finn is nicer that Finley, Finlay, Finnley and seems more of a 'proper' name to me because of its age (Finn McCool) whereas Finley seems much more modern.

I have an Eliana, her name often gets shortened to Ellie - I wouldn't write Eli as to my mind it's pronounced differently. It's never been mentioned.

I've seen Johns called Jonno before without anyone arguing they should be Johnn.

Why did you not just name him Finn? I really can't understand this shortening of names stuff. Finley is a lovely name, so I Finn. Choose.

Finn is a name in its own right, the others are misspellings of Finlay.

Finlay nn Finn is fine.

I don't think you should spell it Finnlay. No, definitely not.

Madeleine is Maddy and that only has one d.

Your DP is bananas

Finley with Finn, without doubt.

No one has ever suggested that we should have changed the spelling of DS's name from Isaac to Izac just so that we could use Zac as a nn.

You don't need a double N in his given name.

I'd spell it Finlay.

But either way it is an Anglicised spelling of Fionnlaugh ( I think)

Thank you all, he is a bit mad at times I did give him a very odd look!

We'd love to use Finn as the full name, but have found it so hard to think of a middle name that works. Our surname is a very common single syllable name (think Smith) so everything sounds a bit odd. Welcome any suggestions though!!!

Finley/Finlay nm Finn is normal.

In the same way you can shorten Catherine to Kate, and Lillian to Lily.

CorneliusMurphy I have an Eliana too! Known as Ellie. Good taste

I think that Finn sounds good with a two syllable middle name and a single syllable surname i.e.; Finn Matthew, Finn Thomas, Finn Isaac etc. I love names that can't be shortened and Finn is a lovely strong name.

Just call him Finn. Finley's awful