Full name or nickname on birthcert?

[Tuschinski]

I've always been of the mind to put a more formal version of a name on a birthcert but have noticed it has become very common now to use nicknames only.
Problem is the 2 front runners for the baby I am expecting are Eppie for a girl and Rudy for a boy and I'm not keen on the long versions.
Would you just use the NNs?

Call her what you like, I would put a 'proper' name on bc but it can be whatever you like, don't use hepzibah if you don't like it, my dd's nn is nunu and that's just taken from the n in her name and sounds nothing like her real name

Indeed Mrs, my son's full name is rarely used at home, we call him the first sound he managed to make, either that or the German nickname for his full name. We don't think it carried outside the home. He got a birthday card addressed to "Woogie" so I don't know if that's a new one his friends have for him.

What about Giuseppa as a full name for Eppie?

Delphine might even work.

I am a believer in full names on birth certificates.

eppie is terrible and doesn't even sound like a nn, more of a word. It reminds me of an epi-pen. nonono

Rudy I always thought was a name in its own right.

register lady to put down the full name (Joseph) on the birth cert of my brother. Parents wanted nn/sort version as his actual name (joe)

He's never used Joseph, no one ever calls him Joseph.
It's perfectly acceptable if the nn/sort version is an actual name or could be. (As Rudy is)

It's not if the name is literally just a nn. (i would never have put down LJ on DD1 cert even if that is what we call her - to many problems)

Ds is called Bill, we registered him as Bill. I personally hate the name william, no idea why, which is why we didnt register him as it. To me his name isnt a nickname version, he's known as Bilbo to everyone, that is his nn. No one has ever asked if it is short for william or called him that. I love your names by the way and would register as either rudy or eppie.

My sons both have the shortened versions of their names on their birth certificates. That is what their names are so why would I have put something different on their birth certificates?

Full name.

definitely full name, I have been known by my nickname by everybody my entire life, but when I married dh whose surname sounds ridiculous with my nickname (it rhymes and sounds REALLY stoopid) i reverted to using my full name.

obv. friends and family still alll call me by my nickname but using my full name when introducing myself to new people and for official stuff means that I neatly sidestep the inevitable snort of laughter when I use my nickname and surname together.

I will be eternally grateful to my parents for putting my full name on my birth cert!

Eppie is awful. Round here "throwing an eppie" is a not very nice way of saying you're having a strop or tantrum (ie. throwing a epileptic fit).

I also think full-name is best. Gives people options and I think its nicer to have a nice official name even if you don't use it very often, a bit like with middle names

Koolaid kid I was going to say that too bit I thought people would come down on me like a ton of bricks for posting something un PC.

Depend on the name although I am a fan of proper names on bcs. A nickname is exactly that, a name you call them instead of their full name. Rudy you'd get away with but Eppie isn't a name, it's a sound. Not much to bequeath your child in the name stakes. OK if you must as a nn but absurd as the child's only name.

Full names.

I would always use the full names on birth certificate.
Both of my sisters have children with short versions of names as their full name, and although, fair enough, that's what we call them, it just feels to me like they're being infantilized all their lives.
the eldest one to have this affliction is now coming on for 11, and it feels like a childish name to me now.
(all three have names that if their full name was chosen, they'd sound very grown up, but not too grown up for a child iyswim)

Beth can also be short for Bethan or Bethany, too, not just Elizabeth...

And Eppie made me think of Epi-pen straight away - i couldn't even imagine what it was short for!

DD3's got a 'nickname'. I think the nickname is a name in its own right. I dont like the full name and would never use it so it was pointless putting it on her birth certificate. I also wouldnt want the full name to be used at the doctors or school.

Can I just stand up for Hepzibah, which is a lovely name, with a beautiful meaning "my delight is in her", and number one on our Names We Weren't Brave Enough To Use list.

Epiphany is nice too.

But this is where you have to think about who the name is for. It isn't for you so to say that you don't want it used at the doctors, school etc isn't really fair. When you give a name like Eppie as the only option you really need to think about what it would be like for your daughter to live with that and that only throughout her life. I have to say that if the only name I had at my disposal as a 39 year old now was Eppie I'd be pretty pissed off.

One of my step family is a Rudi, short for Rudolph. Christmas time has always been fun in our house! He has German family though and I think it's not as unusual there.

Fair enough with Eppie but some nicknames stand as names in there own right so i suppose it depends what the name is

My boys are Alex and Robbie (short for Robert). So I have one short name and one long name on birth certificate, but known by short version. Alex sounds like a name in its own right and we didn't really like Alexander. Robbie sounds like a nick name or a little boy's name, so we called him Robert in case he wanted to use it when he was older.

Rudy is a great stand alone name.

Eppie is just...what is it? It's awful.