To change my name from Elizabeth

if I met someone called ‘Liss’ I’d think it was short for Alicia - do you like that name?

Do it OP!

I changed my first and last name at age 49, also as part of recovery from an abusive childhood. I wanted to rid myself of the cruel labels that had been attached to it.

I was shy to tell people but everyone's been great! (only a very few people know the real reason though)

I went with a name I've always liked from a book I love.

Complete change, I know someone eho had a very boring traditional name and changed it by depol. Names changed but it was like, Victoria changed to Electra. Everyone just accepted it and thats her name now!

Betty

I do too i wonder if it's the same one 🤔

I love your name OP. My 6 year old DD is an Elizabeth too ❤️. We usually call her by her full name but her nicknames are Betty and Lizzie-loo.
If you don’t like it of course you can change it to absolutely anything you want.

I'm the same. If I moved out of the area several miles away, then I would probably do it but otherwise I'm stuck with the damn name as its what I'm known as.

Possibly at 18, 19, 20 but now I am well into my forties I would feel an idiot suddenly announcing that I want to be called Sarah or something.

Elise?

I feel the same about my name but can't think of a name that is 'me.'

For things like SM (e.g. Nextdoor), I use a boring age-appropriate no-nonsense pseudonym (e.g. something like Amy Smith)

@poppymango , or the Spanish variant - Isabella. The Spanish variant ids Isabel.

Nobody has mentioned Bessy,.

all the Elizabeth’s at my school were called Bessy. I preferred it .Or Lizzy is nice.

im also not a fan of liz but love Elizabeth

would you like it if it was spelt Elisabeth? I love that spelling. And it works with the nickname Liss

other Liss names I like:
Alyssa, Alicia (a-Liss-ee-ah), Ellis/Elis, Alice, Liesl, Melissa, Elsie,

My nan was always called Lilly. I never knew her birth name was Elizabeth, until i was much older, as everyone always called her Lilly, which really suited her 💐
Edited to say, my aunty's Betty was the same. I thought her name was Betty, until I was older.
Lilly and Betty are both nice names.
Or have you got a middle name?
Some men in our family were always called by their middle names instead of their first name?

Nobody has mentioned Bessy,.

all the Elizabeth’s at my school were called Bessy. I preferred it .Or Lizzy is nice.

Savannah.

I think Elizabeth is absolutely beautiful, a classic European name. But if you dislike it I think Ella or Lily are good nicknames.

I changed my name in my 30s. I thought it would be difficult but it wasn’t - easy to literally change and everyone I know made the effort to use my new name. Occasionally got called my previous name by mistake when people forgot, but 20 years on my previous name is a distant memory and when I hear it spoken I don’t feel any connection to it.
I always hated my name growing up, to the point that I felt embarrassed introducing myself.
I’d say, find a name you love and use it privately for a while until you feel comfortable yourself with it, then do things like set up an email address, change it on social media, use it with friends until it feels like “your name”, and then change it officially.

My grandmother was Elizabeth but was known as Peggy, now there’s an unusual one for you !

Haha it was exactly that. The teacher used to have to call us Emma D, Emma C, Emma R, etc. I hated it. My best friend's name was Julianna. She really hated her name but I thought it was so exotic and individual as nobody else had that name.

Do you no longer wish to be known as Lis/Liss?
Would you prefer something similar?
I've known a couple of Felicitys who are known as Fliss

First off, you can obviously change your name to whatever you want if you don’t like the sound of your name or it has traumatic associations for you due to your Mum or Gran,

But the late Queen? C’mon 🤣 I’m not a Royalist either (or religious so I don’t care about the supposed meaning) - but the reason many people choose Elizabeth is that it is so timeless that there have been hundreds of amazing historical Elizabeth’s! I personally think of women like Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell… and those were just the ones that instantly sprang to mind. I’d have a Google to associate your name with the ones that resonate with you.

And the amazing nicknames! My favourites are Elza, Bizzy, Lizbeth, Effie, Buffy and Bess. But there’s just so many… Imo your family may have done you wrong in other ways but not with the name they chose for you (and no, I don’t have a DD called Elizabeth so have no skin in the game). I personally think it would be easier to choose one of the great nicknames rather than changing it, but obviously up to you.

I’d keep the name and go full Betty.

Verity - I love Verity, not enough of them in the world.

or

Boudica - because the queen of the Iceni rocked.

If I changed my name I'd go for the name of a woman I admired from history, like Emmeline Pankhurst or in your case you might choose someone from your own cultural heritage.

Yeah I'm 45. Emma must've been a
popular name when I was born. Can't think why, to be honest. Yep Louise is the middle name too. 😏 I've considered dropping the Emma and just being Louise but I'm too long in the tooth now haha.