George or Charles, nn Kit?

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Which do you prefer for a baby boy?
George
Charles nn Kit

I know Kit is typically short for Christopher but my grandfather is Charles nn Kit so that would be a nod to him. But our family isn’t particularly fussy about naming after relatives so more interested in which you prefer as a name vs as a tribute!

Middle name would be Alexander and big brother is Hugo.

Charles (or Christopher) will just be a name on a birth certificate but it will never be used.

You don't know that. The boy might choose to be known as Charles or Christopher when he is old enough to express a preference.

I have relatives who have always had a family nickname, but choose not to use it with in laws/friends/work.

I never understand on mn how parents think they will just be able to force random nicknames on their kids.

I agree.

Give your child a name of which you like all potential nicknames. Charles, Charlie, etc

With apologies to your grandfather Kit really is a stretch from Charles. If you’re determined to make it work I suppose you could give him two middle names to spell CIT, eg Charles Isaac Thomas, but that is a bit of a stretch too! Christopher and Christian are both lovely names to give the diminutive Kit.

Kit is a terrible name. So George i guess.

@Blubells

I never understand on mn how parents think they will just be able to force random nicknames on their kids.

I agree.

Give your child a name of which you like all potential nicknames. Charles, Charlie, etc

If you go early you pretty much can force a nickname through childhood. Once they're teens/adults it's harder but they're more likely to stick to your chosen nn than adopt a new one.

If I met you at a baby group and said 'Hi, I'm Sam and this is Billy', unless you were mad, you'd call us Sam and Billy. The fact that our birth certificates might say Samantha and William or Samuel and Wilhelmina wouldn't really come into play.

If you met a Kit, you surely wouldn't demand to see his birth certificate/know his BC name?

I prefer George but I can see how Charles nn Kit works well with your daughter's name and nn.

@LaChanticleer

Kit is a shortening for Christopher. People will think you're ignorant about that ...

You're condemning your son to a lifetime of explaining his name.

What a load of bollocks My eldest son is called Kit and not once has anybody asked some or him what is short for.

In his case Kit is not a diminutive of anything for him. It is his name on his BC

Both nice, but Charles nn Kit for preference.

He might decide he wants to be Charlie but it’s a nice family link none the less

@LaChanticleer

Although I agree about the Charles and stretch to Kit apologies

I prefer Chris as a shortening of Christopher tbh.

I'd call him Charles and accept the Charlie nickname or Kit.

@Regularsizedrudy

I never understand on mn how parents think they will just be able to force random nicknames on their kids.

Often if you decide on a shortening it does stick - people do it all the time, Philippa is Pippa or Nathaniel is Nate. I agree you have to be happy with all the outcomes.

But both Charles and Kit are nice and I no one will think anything of it.

Just name your kid Kit if you like it.

A nickname should be organic , I agree with pps.

It's not a nickname. It's the child's name. Of course it makes more sense to either just register a child as the name you want to call them or as a name for which the name you want to call them is a known and established diminutive. Hence Christopher rather than Charles if he's to be known as Kit. Of course the child could decide he wanted to be known as Charles or Christopher later but to be honest that's no different to a child choosing to be known by their middle name later. My own sons have names like this (established diminutives from traditional names) and no one has ever looked up their birth certificate or refused to use the name they say they are called. And they are adults now and neither of them has ever thought of their name as a nickname or wished to use their birth certificate name, though we gave it to them as an option in case they did want something more formal at any point.

A nickname should be organic , I agree with pps.

😂 Yeah, god forbid, your child have a non-organic nickname.

If you go early you pretty much can force a nickname through childhood.

Sure, you could just never tell your child their real name.

@Blubells

If you go early you pretty much can force a nickname through childhood.

Sure, you could just never tell your child their real name.

I mean, you could.

But why would you do that?

We called our dd one name all the way through pregnancy but for various reasons thought it shouldn't be her first name. So we put another on the certificate. Months in we realised this was fucking stupid as nobody was calling her by the official name, even the grandparents who'd objected to the bump name. So we changed her birth certificate to the bump name (a perfectly sensible and very old name, very uncommon) and all has been good. In short, if you want him to be Kit, Christopher is OK - but not Charlie. Or George.

It could work - and has obviously worked for your grandfather - but be prepared not to get annoyed by having to explain.

DD has a good friend called Junior. She met him as Junior, teachers at school call him Junior, his mum & sister call him Junior. His actual name is Adam. I know his mum really well & didn't realise he wasn't christened Junior until she was discussing their new passports & showed me the photo as she was worried it didn't look like him.

So, it is possible to pick a nickname. But only if you "hide" the real name I guess.

I would call him Kit but have Charles and Alexander as middle names.
Kit Alexander Charles sounds better than Kit Charles Alexander imo

I wanted to call my son Christopher nn Kit but then I married someone (and took his name) who could have been related to a singer called Eartha

Kit is one of Wayne’s Rooneys kids isn’t it. I’m not keen.

George is lovely