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Bella? Are Isabella / Isobel the only long versions of this?

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 11:47

Really like the shortening 'Bella' but dislike above names!

Can any thing else be shortened to Bella?

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jchandler · 15/08/2008 22:38

too many isabellas, arabellas, issies, bellas out there!!! she will be one in a que when it comes to school .

Phoenix · 15/08/2008 22:34

I know someone with an Isabella (Bella) and Carmella.

dizzydixies · 15/08/2008 22:29

disenchanted how can you not like Isabella [wink

and don't be 'hmmmmmm ing' at Cordelia - thats dd3

what about Camille if Camilla is too horsey?
Cecelia with Cece as a nn
Celeste?
Charlotte - lottie?
Beatrice nn Bea or Bibi?

LaTrucha · 15/08/2008 19:10

My DD is named Sabela - which is Galician from the NW of Spain (where MIl from). I shorten it to Bela / Bella

CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 19:01

Jemima? My dd aged six just suggested that one She loves names too and her dolls all have gorgeous names..

Penelope with Polly, Poppy or Penny for short.
Margaret with Maggie, Margot or Greta for short.
Eloise (with Lois for short).
Posy - just like that one.

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 18:57

Sounds like Camilla, too horsey

Cordelia, hmmm

not the one, but something like that.

Sorry, I'm getting fed up. I never had this with my boys!

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CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 18:54

But I'm guessing your husband wouldn't go for that either.

CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 18:53

What about Cordelia with Della for short?

CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 18:52

It's how polite Americans on American boards say "eurgh yuck". It stands for Not my style at all.

Hmmm. Like Amelia but different. What do you think of Camellia like the flower? I knew a Spanish girl from Barcelona called Camellia. Always remembered it since then as being a lovely name.

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 18:50

whats a nmsaa??

No, but her exhubby called her bella.

Amelia, I love, but its too popular.

I want something different.

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CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 18:49

Is your SIL called somethingBella? Why can't you use Amelia btw?

Gabriella is a 'nmsaa' is it??!

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 18:42

DH doesn't want Bella.

Because of SIL.

Back to square one.

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Boobz · 15/08/2008 18:02

Belinda is a fab name. My friend is called this and I don't think I have ever met another one. We call her B, Bell, Bella, Bind and Binders for short, so is very versatile.

Love it.

DutchOma · 15/08/2008 14:11

Just going to mail you now.

CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 12:57

What about......... drum roll ( I like one myself)

Gabriella.

I think you could pull Bella from that without too many explanations.

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 12:57

Oh DO!

Fabulous, thanks so much!

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DutchOma · 15/08/2008 12:55

Quick Hijack:- there is a dear little pink cardigan ready for whatever you choose to call her, if you can take the embargo off your CAT messages, or send me an email address so I can contact you.

EffiePerine · 15/08/2008 12:52

Sybil?

some info on shortened names here

genealogy.about.com/library/bl_nicknames.htm

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 12:51

Not keen on Belinda at all.

Why is this so bloody hard.

I look at all her clothes hung up and I imagine her little face and I can 'feel' a name, I can imagine myself calling her it but I can't say it, I don't know what it is, but I feel like I know what it should be.

Does that make sense?

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EffiePerine · 15/08/2008 12:48

I like Belinda.

Another variant on Isobel is Ishbel (Scots) which is rather pretty

VictorianSqualor · 15/08/2008 12:47

I love Annabel too, if our last child is a girl we will use Annabel as the middle name.

CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 12:45

Why do you refuse to use Amelia??

Mirabelle is an elephant,but Maribel is a good Spanish name.

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DisenchantedPlusBump · 15/08/2008 12:44

Its too popular, I know a good few of them, I have loved it for years but back then it wasn't as popular,

I'm really looking for something thats pretty, different but not 'odd'

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CuckooChocolateOrange · 15/08/2008 12:43

I love Belinda. It's middle-aged chic.

Annabel is beautiful imo, and you could use Bella as a nn, I like Annabella too but it's a little too "nelly olsen" if you know what I mean.... Arabella I don't like much. Way too deliberately poncey! And Isabella is v.pop.

Belinda, Christabel, Mabel, Annabel. They are all lovely imo. Belinda with Bella for short would be gorgeous. Please choose that! Belinda is just a bit ahead of the cyclical fashion curve, that's all. It's not 'old'. It's ahead

tiredemma · 15/08/2008 12:42

why do you refuse to use amelia?