Francis nn Frank or just Frank?

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Unsure what to do with birth certificate.
I do like Francis but wanting Frank day to day

I would go with just frank.

Frank is much cooler, Francis would make me imagine someone more boring.

I'd always give the option, tbh.

Francis sound very religious

I like Frank

I don’t like either names quite frankly (tee hee), but if you like both I would probably go for the long version so that your DS will have a choice.

Francis is just perfectly lovely. Frank for every day.

I usually prefer the full name but I really don't like Francis. Frank is a much stronger name.

Francis is so much nicer and less harsh than Frank.

What about Franklin nn Frank?

Francis is an awful name. Love Frank/ franklin

Francis isn’t an awful name at all 😂
Francis and Frank are both well established, perfectly decent names. The Francis I know is very funny and a great friend.

@SameToo thank you for the suggestion just cannot being myself to like Franklin, it is a bottle of water where I am from so cannot get over that connection.

I knew a Francis who always went as Frank or Frankie.

Frank is such an ugly and harsh name. Francis is wet and unattractive but slightly more tolerable than Frank so Francis.

Frank on its own. My grandad was a Frank. Good strong name.

Family name here for a few generations - Francis on birth certificate but only ever known as Frank. Great name - and I love Francis.

Frank, if I had to choose. Francis is so drab and wet.

Frankenstein in full

I dare you …

Francis without a doubt

Frank. Nice strong name. I do like Francis aswell but it is a totally different feeling to Frank.

I like both. I know three men named officially Francis; one is known as Frank, one goes by Fran (pronounced Frarn) and one as Frankie

I love Frank! For me it has an understate elegance in it's simplicity, that is taken away in the longer versions of Francis and Franklin. I can't stand Franklin so that is a straight no. While Francis is fine, I find it a little drab so wouldn't use it personally.

A lot of MN users heavily support using an extended name on birth certificate and then using your preferred diminutive day to day, however, this only works in the parents like the extended version, and the other diminutives that go along with it as their child might switch when they grow upland reject the diminutive the parents initially wanted.

Francis, but I prefer it as a middle name because I'm not keen on Frank. Dislike Franklin.

It's such a wet name !