Can I register him just Theo?

[jasbandcody]

Love, Theo, hate Theodore. What do you think?

Of course you can.

Of course, its a lovely name

Yes definitely

Absolutely.

There's always Theophilus P. Wildebeeste

Course you can nice name OP

Yes! :)

Yep. I don’t see the point of registering the full name when the shortened version will always be used

You could always go for Theodosius if you fancy something with a Roman emperor flavour?
Joking aside, Theo is a perfectly acceptable name in its own right these days, and it's lovely.

Of course. The little boy next door to me is called Theo. lt's a lovely name.

Theo is now a stand alone name. It's extremely popular so there will be plenty of Theos without the longer name (which I like but if you don't, don't use it).

Theodoras is the Greek version. But if you are going to call him Theo anyway it makes more sense just to register him as that.

Of course, it doesn’t make sense to register him a name you won’t call him

Yes, absolutely

Thanks all thought you were all gonna say noooooo!

My cousin is called Theo.

I think Theo is just fine and my cousin just had a Theo not Theodore! I do find MN odd though, I have a Betsy yet I did a thread and everyone seemed to believe she should be Elizabeth, she is just Betsy :) xx

Absolutely! My toddler is called Theodore, but we only ever call him Theo and planned to register him as Theo until the last minute.

Usually I’m not keen but some names are now pretty well established and Theo is one of those.