I’ve always been of the opinion if you give your child an “interesting” first name they should get a solid conventional second, and vice versa so they can swap them round if they desire in adulthood.
Also because I had two pretty normal names and desired a more exotic one.
@fatberg with the shortened names, I’m with you on the give them a long name and then they can shorten it or have friends/family/strangers shorten it in due course.
I’ve always been of the opinion if you give your child an “interesting” first name they should get a solid conventional second, and vice versa so they can swap them round if they desire in adulthood.
Also because I had two pretty normal names and desired a more exotic one.
@fatberg with the shortened names, I’m with you on the give them a long name and then they can shorten it or have friends/family/strangers shorten it in due course.