Personalized gifts when baby goes by a nickname?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for the input! Baby's name is William and he will be called "Will" per the e-mail announcing his birth. (i.e., we are happy to announce that William "Will" [middle name] arrived last night ...) The gift is a personalized blanket. My son has the same one and I feel like it will look better with William than Will. Does this change anyone's mind?

[Anonymous]

Completely - my daughter has a very long name and we have a very short nick name. She NEVER goes by her real name (I accidently used her nick name once on her passport form, and had to redo all the paperwork).

That being said, personalized gifts - she has a robe and blanket with the nick name, but she received a beautiful silver baby rattle and I wanted her formal name on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD has a nickname that is very different from her real name, and for me it would depend on what the item is. A t-shirt may lend itself to the nickname while a pewter baby rattle might not.

I agree with this, but even with a keepsake I might go with initials just to be sure. My brother has always been called by his middle name - he is Henry William, but since our Dad is Henry my brother has always been called Will.

This is me. I go by a nickname of my middle name. No one who knows me has ever called me by my first name, and I wouldn't treasure a keepsake with my given first name. I agree with PP that it depends on the item though. If it's something formal like a silver rattle, I'd use the initials. For clothes or a bag, I'd use a nickname but I'd be nervous about using a nickname for a child who was just born. FWIW, my DC goes to daycare with a kid named John. They called him Jack for the first few months, then called him John and Jack for awhile, and now apparently prefer John.