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

65 replies

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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DaisyHayes · 15/05/2011 23:41

AnonymousBird - It's pronounced Izz-Oh.

SandStorm · 15/05/2011 22:53

I know two girls who are Izzy and two who are Belle.

CDMforever · 15/05/2011 22:44

We have an Arabella who has been Bella, Bella-Boo, Arabou since day one. Though I do make a concerted effort to use her full name as it is so very beautiful Smile
LOVE the name Ibbie, guess that would be Abbie in our case!!

diddygirl · 15/05/2011 19:24

My DD is Isabelle and only 1 person has ever referred to her as Izzy. What's really annoying is that people who meet her for the first time call her Isabella, when I have clearly said Isabelle. The teachers did this when she started school and my DD being my DD promptly informed them it was Isabelle. I've nothing against Isabella but that's just not her name.

I think it's a beautiful name and my daughter is very proud of it!!

My husband and I have a great fun with her name too. We call her Babelle (that's how she used to pronounce it when a baby) and Isabily (her middle name is Lily.

CoteDAzur · 15/05/2011 16:03

I haven't heard of an Isabella being called Izzy.

Two are called Bella and one is called Ella.

5DollarShake · 14/05/2011 22:52

I'm an Isobel and get Issy, Is and Iso (pronounced as short for Isobel, so the same way).

I really don't like Issy - it's such an ugly word IMO! My Dad hated it too, and always dissuaded people from using it, but Issy does seem to be the default nn unless you actively use another.

DH calls me Belle, but he's the only one.

AnonymousBird · 14/05/2011 20:14

DaisyHayes - Is Iso pronounced Eye-so or i-so (as in the phonic sound of "i")?

DaisyHayes · 14/05/2011 16:01

I know a three year old Isobel who is nicknamed Iso. It's rather lovely I think. And far spunkier than Izzy, imo.

Her parents use it partly as a reference to Marilyn French's The Women's Room, which is nice (the character was actally an Isolde, I think, but it still works).

RockStockandTwoOpenBottles · 13/05/2011 01:28

Grin mybrains!

I have an Isabella and she's Bella most of the time. Has been Bella Boo, Boo, Boo Boo but we've got to Bella now - she's 2.2

mybrainsthinkingfuckyou · 13/05/2011 01:00

Just as long as the op isn't the SIL who called her DD Isabelle Eva when the cousin was called Isabella Eve!!!

i happen to like Isa and Issy as it happens and Bella reminds me too much of the bossy tweenie.

Belle is nice especially for disney princess paraphernalia later.

Issy nicer than izzy as i am old enough to remember sooty and sweep.

As you were.

maisiestar · 13/05/2011 00:48

We have an Isabella and she's mostly known as Bessie - both of which I love

ChuckYouFarlie · 13/05/2011 00:42

Was Zsa Zsa Gabor an Isabelle?

Hmm
MoshiMonstersRUs · 12/05/2011 22:51

The Isabel I know is Belle, Bella or Izzy

PurveyorOfBaloney · 12/05/2011 22:33

Know a rather cool teenage Isabelle known as Whizz

befuzzled · 12/05/2011 22:27

Ella and Issy

manicinsomniac · 12/05/2011 22:26

The ones I teach are a mixture of Isabel (2), Isabella (1), Izzy (3) and Bella (2)

Also love Ibbie, never heard it before.

MercurySoccer · 12/05/2011 21:26

Izzy seems to be the most usual by far, then Bella.

BadRoly · 12/05/2011 21:12

My Isabella is known as Bella and derivatives of that (Bells, Belly, Bellsy).

olddeuteronomy · 12/05/2011 21:09

In Scotland among the older generation was often shortened to Tibbie (my gran's name) and have also heard Isa, both of which I think are nice.

eurycantha · 12/05/2011 20:30

I look after twins ,one of whom is an Isobel ,in her class there is another Isobel who is always called Isobel We call ours Izzy.

NimpyWindowmash · 12/05/2011 19:30

What angryfeet said

Chica31 · 12/05/2011 19:30

My DD is Isabel and it is ALWAYS Isabel. Sometimes the Nursery staff call her Isa but not very often. We live in Spain, so of course Spanish friends call her "Esabel" shortened to "Esa"

GwendolineMaryLacey · 12/05/2011 19:26

The Isobel I know is Isobel and the Isabellas are Bella (child) and Issie (my age)

lemonbeaver · 12/05/2011 19:23

My daughter is Isabelle and we called her issy wizzy when little, she loves being Issy and it really suits her, i didn't/don't personally like Bella as it reminds me of the Tweenies, however i love Ibbie and wished we had thought of that for her, I might start calling her that Wink

AnonymousBird · 12/05/2011 19:17

Izzy/Issy/Belle/Bella.

Ours is currently Whizzy, but suspect she will grow out of it and want one of the other nns, or heaven forbid, her full name!

I LOVE Ibbie. Not heard that one before.

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