Please, Please use her proper Hebrew name!
Obviously just stating my opinion but I have to tell you that we had a couple situations where we needed to use headstones to determine names and parents names and nobody around knew enough to know Yankele was a nickname for Yaakov. My moms brother was Marv – his “jewish” name was Yosha Maisha. His children didn’t know that Yosha Maisha was a Yiddish pronunciation of his given name, Yosef Moshe and put the Yiddish/nickname on his stone. Some of these relatives have used these nicknames for their children thinking they are proper names.
It is one thing to put a Yiddish name if that is the given name, but a nickname or Yiddish pronounciation should go in quotes.
We also had trouble finding my mothers father’s name for her own matzeiva because his stone had been made with the same process.
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