I'm a great believer in choice. Name a kid
Chris, and a serial killer known as
Chris - especially if the lns are the same or close - in the vicinity would leave him stranded, but if he were
Christopher he could become Christo or Tiff or just use the full form. And fashions in nns change. How old is the youngest
Cathy you know? The youngest
Betty? And yet there are so many
Kate and
Lisa people - many of them Catherines and Elizabeths who've rejected botox in favour of a name tweak.