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Picking longer version of name for birth cert

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AnnieMay100 · 19/05/2019 17:34

Posting for a friend... she would like to call her first baby jack after her father and grandfather, but due to her married surname she’s having second thoughts (the k at the end of the name would make her surname sound rude when said in full) so she’s considering Jaxson/jackson/Jaxon for the birth certificate/school/work but calling him Jack in general. Does this kind of thing work? Would she be better choosing a new name/ double barrelling a first and middle name or would her plan be ok? Had a quick Facebook stalk of the name and it seems popular in America so can’t be all bad? I’m not sure what advice to offer so hoping you ladies can help

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SecretNutellaFix · 19/05/2019 17:45

If it's going to potentially sound rude when said aloud, then having a different form of the name won't really help anything though, if they're still going to be saying Jack Surname. If there are a few around then the chance of people using first name and surname together increases.

Jack originated as a pet form of John btw. I don't know if it's something she'd consider?

MummyBear2352 · 19/05/2019 17:56

Just Jack.

Normally I’d say go with the longer name on the bc but with Jack it’s a classic and must nicer than those other names.

Littlepond · 19/05/2019 17:58

I’m assuming surname is Hunt.
Choose a different name.

MikeUniformMike · 19/05/2019 18:05

If the surname is something like Hunt, and he is called Jackson or John or Jack-Raymond but all his friends and family call him Jack, he will probably nearly always be called Jack Hunt.

MikeUniformMike · 19/05/2019 18:05

Michael is a lovely classic name.

SluggishSnail · 19/05/2019 18:07

Mike doesn't go with Hunt either.

HasThisSoddingNameGoneToo · 19/05/2019 18:08

I think it was a joke, Small... 😆

Jaxon/Jaxson is awful.

HasThisSoddingNameGoneToo · 19/05/2019 18:09

Small?? Snail!

AuntMarch · 19/05/2019 18:11

Mike is definitely worse than Jack, if it is Hunt 😂. If it's Gough, Mike would make it funny rather than rude though.

I'm not a fan of Jackson, it's still very much a surname to me. I especially don't like the X spellings. (It's a secret opinion though as there is one in my family!)

TheRedFox · 19/05/2019 18:15

Agree - if the surname is something like "Hunt" then registering a different name on the BC will make no difference as he'll still be known as eg Jack Hunt at school.

I wouldn't do it.

daisypond · 19/05/2019 18:18

Jack is better than Jaxon or Jackson or Jaxson as a name. But Jack is the familiar form for John, so maybe use that as the proper name.

TatianaLarina · 19/05/2019 18:21

Jackson is a bloody awful name and Jaxon is even worse.

He’ll still be Jack Hunt so it doesn’t solve the problem.

RaffertyFair · 19/05/2019 18:25

Putting a longer version on the birth certificate won't help the issue at all, as MikeUniformMike has pointed out!

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AnnieMay100 · 19/05/2019 18:25

Thanks everyone I’ll point out possible issues but ultimately it’s up to her and I don’t want to offend her...surname not hunt but on a similar level, I think her idea was for everyone to refer to him as Jackson and only family call him jack (not sure how you’d control friends calling him jack too though)

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Divgirl2 · 19/05/2019 18:26

John but known as Jack is pretty common in Scotland. Could that be an option?
Jackson/Jaxon/Jaxxon/Jaxson is awful.
They could go for Giacomo?

Proseccofuelled · 19/05/2019 20:21

Usually yes but those names are horrific
Jack was short of Jonathan anyway I think so that might be the better choice - or would Jacob help?

Proseccofuelled · 19/05/2019 20:22

If it’s something like Jack Ockley then it really won’t help & they shouldn’t do it

Chilledout11 · 19/05/2019 20:26

Could she double barrell her surname (maiden) with her new surname ?

Herbella · 19/05/2019 20:42

or Iago, the Spanish version of Jack.

Yes, I was wondering if he was the first born if the solution would be to slip her maiden name in to doubel barrell the surname.

Or just save the name Jacqueline for a daughter.

ThanksItHasPockets · 19/05/2019 21:12

Jack is so popular that he is likely to be one of several in his class or year and known as Jack Hunt (for example) at school. It’s one thing to have a longer formal name for birth certificates and class registers but you can’t call a small child one thing at home and another at school. One form of the name will stick.

How about John? It’s traditionally what Jack is a nickname for.

Complainingagain · 20/05/2019 01:09

Her idea won't work because people will still call him Jack Surname! Even if on his BC is says Jackson or whatever. Especially his friends. She's setting him up for a lifetime of bullying/jokes. It's not at all fair.

Kokeshi123 · 20/05/2019 01:56

She CANNOT call him Jack Hunt, sorry. Either this is a windup or she is really stupid!

There are a million other lovely boys' names that work fine with Hunt.

RaffertyFair · 20/05/2019 06:44

We dont know the surname Kokeshi but we know it's not Hunt. OP wrote surname not hunt but on a similar level,

EskewedBeef · 20/05/2019 06:50

or Iago, the Spanish version of Jack.

That's James isn't it? Like Jago.

EskewedBeef · 20/05/2019 06:51

The surname might be Hock/Hockney or similar. Jack Hockney would be quite funny actually.

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