So many nicknames as full names

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So my DD is 2, lately we’ve met a lot of other kids her age, through nursery, play groups, friends of friends etc. We live in London in what would be generally classed as a very nice area, would be stereotyped as very middle class etc. I’ve also noticed a bit of a trend where most of these families are corporate dad and SAHM set ups (obviously I don’t know every single one of these child’s parents jobs so it’s a smaller sample) and what I have noticed is so many of these children have nicknames for full names.
I feel like on Mumsnet people are generally told to give their child a full name and it often comes up as “not very classy” to give them one of the nicknames as full names, or suggested that educated/ambitious parents wouldn’t pick these names (I don’t necessarily agree with this I’m just repeating a common theme I’ve seen).
So far we have met
2x Stevie (girls)
Teddy
Rudy
Ozzy
Gigi
Bea
Posy
Emmy
Bobby
Pippa

This has surprised me a little as amongst my close friends and from what I’ve seen on here it’s pretty unpopular to give your child a nickname as a full name. It’s also made me wonder why especially on here it’s seen as unclassy or a sign of being uneducated when at least in my experience the names are being used across all classes including amongst highly educated and successful individuals?
Have you noticed this trend too? Is it as prolific amongst the people you know? What are your thoughts on it?

I think the more options the better, so I don't know why people wouldn't put the 'full' version on the birth certificate. (Fun fact, the name 'Tiffany' first emerged in the 1200s, and is a diminutive of 'Theophania')

Names can be an intimate thing, so I think it's nice to have a more formal name you can introduce yourself by in certain settings or use in professional life, plus diminutives you can use day-to-day or with friends and family.

But then my children have a 'proper' first name, as well as two middle names, (which has never been a problem filling out forms) so we went all out. They seem happy with that so far as teenagers, using a mix of their proper first names, and diminutives.

Interesting - my children's school asked for a 'preferred name' at enrolment, and that's what's used on all school documentation relating to them, including the roll, I believe.

@Zitroneneis "Again, why are some parents today denying their children that option?"
Totally denying? FFS. There's nothing to stop a Steve going by Stephen if he prefers it. Just like Stephen could go by Steve.

One of my kids has a “nickname” as her full birth certificate name. And if she’d have been a boy, she’d have been Kit. Not Christopher, just Kit. I’d say we’re quite middle class. I’m failing to see what the problem is, why would we have put a name on the birth certificate that we didn’t want to use and didn’t particularly like? I think we’re catastrophising just a little bit by saying that children with names that are a diminutive or were once seen as nicknames are being “denied” anything!

@LeopardsANeutral , as someone with a child called Kate, I agree. She's BEEN DENIED the options of being called a 'nn' she didn't want to be called, and having had the name she only had on the BC misspelt. What were we thinking?

I assumed exam certificates use the ‘official’ name, the one that’s in their passport?

A name being a diminutive doesn’t necessarily stop other diminutives forming from it though does it?
Like Teddy could go by Ted, Pippa by Pip or Gigi by Gi/Gia.
Also for us, our DD is Gigi. We absolutely adore her name it was an absolute no brainer and any other name we’d have chosen at the time we wouldn’t have loved nearly as much, as parents you get the privilege of choosing a name you love, you don’t have to pick one of a set list of 100 pre chosen names all meeting the sound expectations some people have. We didn’t like Giulia, Georgina, Georgia etc and we feared using them as there would be no guarantee of Gigi being used, Georgie, Gina, Geo, Jules etc. could have all won and we did not like those names (and again parents are actually supposed to pick a name they love).

Also many names don’t have super obvious shortenings and those people are fine and not lacking in life due to it, Karen, Mark, Chloe, Erin, Niamh, Cara/Lara/Clara etc.

Yes, for senior exams, but otherwise all letters/emails home, permission forms, absentee forms, certificates, communications with the children, etc, use their preferred name.

This is a good idea. I haven't seen it in any school I've worked in.

Like a couple of pps, I don't understand why you would give one name and yet deliberately set out to call them by something else. Our eldest DC's given name is technically a diminutive. Although I quite like the 'full' name, I prefer the diminutive as did DH, so that is the name on their birth certificate. When dc was very young, we got loads of comments about how the name was lovely for a baby or toddler, but what about when they were an adult. Well, DC is now an admin their mid thirties and is very well established and successful in their career. Nobody has ever commented on their name so I think it's safe to suggest that they haven't been held back by it. At one point we were talking about names and they said they love their name and the fact that it reflects their heritage.

I work with people with names like Jamie, Tom, Tim and Jon. I don't need to know if they have a 'BC' name or not.