More name stuff.

A friend elsewhere reminded me many boomers and early GenX folk don't use their birth names - they go by nicknames that may be nothing to do with their actual birth certificate name.

I realised of my immediate family, mum, her brothers, dad, his brother & wife - and all their *kids* - none of them use their biological name. three quarters use entirely different names. the rest use similarish nicks.

It's just me. only me, who uses the name on my birth certificate.

Holy wow.

@NanoRaptor both my grandfathers went by names that were just different than their legal name. Like, Jack instead of Alfred for no reason anybody remembered anymore. Not sure if it was common in their generation (~1920 I guess) or my family is a statistical anomaly.