Help us to decide

[Cottontop299]

DS1 due imminently, we are set on calling him Frank day to day but do we need to register as Francis or is just Frank ok?
which would you prefer?
do not like Francesco or Franklin

Frank is lovely, but I would register as Francis to give some options throughout life.

I agree Francis to give him a choice later on

Francis

Frank

Frank is a good solid name on it's own, has the option of Frankie if he wants and really doesn't need Francis stuck on the certificate to never be used.

I'd go with Frank. I think it's a name in itself now

Frank is a great solid name 👌

I prefer Frank. Francis sounds feminine to me because I know a few Frances’s.

I'd go with Francis then he has the option. He'll probably be called Frank anyway.

I'd use Francis as the registration name, to give him a choice later.

Going against the grain here, but as someone who has a proper name on my birth certificate that I've never used, put Frank. I'm in ny 30s and I'm going to change it to the name I'm called by. If he wants "options" as an adult, he can choose whatever he wants to be called.

I love the name Frank! I usually fall in the “proper name on BC” camp, so I’d go with Francis, but I think using Frank as the proper name is fine. It seems like a name in its own right, unlike a lot of diminutives.

Definitely Francis

Neither are my personal cup of tea but of the two , definitely Francis. It makes me think of elegant French kings. I know Frank is trendy now for toddlers but it makes me think of my Grandad’s mates at the bookies or on the allotments. Plus gives him the choice and all that jazz.

I really don't like Francis, so I would definitely just have Frank.

Francis is nice.

Francis is awful so I'd go with Frank. It's a name in it's own right now anyway.

I’m normally on the side of putting the formal name on the birth certificate, but think Frank stands on its own as a name, plus it’s highly unlikely he would opt for francis these days.

I really like kids having a long name and a short name, so I'd probably go for Francis, but not if you'll never, ever use it. There's only a point in having it if you're going to use at least occasionally.

Francis is a bloody terrible name. Unless he's gonna be born at like 50 years old.

Frank is kinda cool though, I think it can stand as a solid name on its own. He could go by Frankie.

I thought Frances was a girls name

Frances is a girls name

Francis is a boys name

Francis and Frank are both solid names.
You could do either with confidence.

I would not register him as Frankie as that sounds too cutesy childish for when he is 35.

I prefer Francis officially even if calling him Frank or Frankie.

Someone I knew as a child as Frank now goes by Francis and is very well known is his field. Either work well with his surname.

But I vote for Francis on the certificate. It’s a proper name (and don’t I sound like my grandmother?)