...we're from a non-English speaking countries and people don’t automatically have a nickname for a long name (every
Sebastian,
Leonardo,
Nathaniel, etc. I know go by their full name, but most people on this board that are from US/UK always comment on how they don’t like the nicknames. Who says you HAVE to have a nickname?)
And while those boys were born in the US, their father is clearly Latino, so my guess is they’ll go by their full names since Latinos have no problem with calling their kids by both first and middle name (
Juan Carlos,
Fernando,
Maria Guadalupe, etc.), so
Nathaniel is hardly going to be too long for them.