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Nicknames for Isabel/Isabella etc. Is it almost always Izzy?

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Hope88 · 12/05/2011 18:40

I was just answering someone about nicknames and it got me thinking how often Isabel/ Isabelle/ Isabella etc. is called Izzy?????
I really don't like it and am worried people would automatically call her that.
Do you know any that has never been called Izzy?

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user6019 · 07/08/2023 11:00

i know someone called isa which i think is sweet?

Bellavix · 29/07/2023 01:01

As an Isabella i was NEVER called Izzy, I am from Italy but everyone called me Isa and now some people call me Bella 🤷

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Flissypix · 16/03/2015 20:59

I have an Isabelle, I wanted to nn her Belle as she was named after my nan. However she gets Izzy a lot as well, I usually call her Isabelle or Liza (but that is a different story.) When she went to school she got called Izzy and got confused, she asked me 'is that my name?' I said only if you want it to be. She likes it so its sort of stuck. I LOVE IBBIE! I want that to be my name, but might suggest it for my dd.

Fadingmemory · 16/03/2015 20:50

Issy, Izzy, Izza, Izz, Belle, Bella.

Falconwolf101 · 16/03/2015 20:47

Ds and I brainstormed!
Iza
Belle
Izia
Sable (pronounced sa- belle)
Ibi
Izaeza
Belli- ok this does sound like belly!
Ibelle
Elli
Izza
Some of these are crazy! If you like them, feel free to used them XD

crazycatlady82 · 16/03/2015 20:22

One of my best friend;s is Iza and I have a cousin Isa.

Also Bella and Ella

Mangobubbles · 13/03/2015 13:30

One of my best friends is Isabelle. She's French and her nickname is Isa. (Pronounced Izza)

Sophronia · 13/03/2015 10:58

I like Ibby / Ibbie as a nickname for Isabel etc.

CarlaVeloso · 13/03/2015 10:56

I know an Isabella whose mother insisted she was Isa from day 1 because she hated Izzy and Bella. Tbh it feels really artificial. I don't know why they called her Isabella in the first place.

florascotia · 13/03/2015 10:48

It's definitely an old lady name (and not the fashionable kind) but in Scotland, Isabella/Isobel was traditionally often shortened to Isa (Eye-sah). I've also met older Scots named Bella.

Aunt Izzy features prominently in the American children's classic, ' What Katy Did'. But I don't think anyone reads that these days.

CathFizz · 13/03/2015 10:43

My friend's dd is Isabelle but is always called Whizz Grin

passmethewineplease · 13/03/2015 10:25

My daughter is called Isabelle, she's never called Izzy. Always Belle.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 13/03/2015 10:16

Bottom line is. If you dont like the nn Izzy don't use Isabelle as it'll be your daughters name not yours and if she wanted to use Izzy she's entitled to. Xxx

bolbz12345 · 12/03/2015 06:56

My name is Isobelle but I call myself IzzI... just to be different I guess

kiteflying · 25/02/2012 13:16

My Isabel is nn Bella and/or Bella-boo. She prefers Isabel to anything else. Which is annoying as I actually named her Bella but did the "long name for the birth certificate" thing and it stuck.

BuntyPenfold · 24/02/2012 20:51

I know one called Bella and one called Liz. And about fifteen called Izzy tbh.

MrsBovary · 24/02/2012 20:00

Yes, what Angryfeet said. Usually Isobel/Isabel/Isabelle = Izzy and Isabella - Bella

kizzybell · 24/02/2012 19:43

when i was younger there were two isobels/isabel in my class it was very hard to know who was talking to who, as we were both best friends. a year later i shortened my name to izzy which i much prefer to anything else.

startail · 16/05/2011 12:44

The two we have at school are Issy and Izzie and very precise about it.
A friend has a little Isabel who she calls Tink from Tinkerbell, But her brother calls her Tizzy (because he says that's what she gets in)

Tigerbomb · 16/05/2011 00:48

Isabelle and Isabella are beautiful names.

My DN is Isabella and it is shortened to Bella which I rarely use.

It reminds me of Bella Emburg from the Russ Abbott show

crystalglasses · 16/05/2011 00:08

Bella is lovely

BibiBelle · 15/05/2011 23:58

DD1 is Ella but she has decided at the ripe old age of 6yrs to ask her teacher to call her by her full title Isabella Grin

She was named after my great aunt who was known as Isa

whodunnit · 15/05/2011 23:47

My DD Isabella is just Izzy at school which I resisted myself,but now often call her. I don't like it either, to the point where I would have called her something else if I knew then that would be her nickname. It sometimes gets shortened to Is at home.