Will my poor child have to spell this name (Amabell) if we give it to her????

Just PMSL at Amabell. I hope that other posters have convinced you already - terrible!

What about Arabella?

Amabel sounds like Annabel with a blocked nose.

please don't name her this

then you'll be on the site moaning about people not spelling it correctly or saying it correctly

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You know what? Give your child the name YOU FEEL DEEP INSIDE is the right one...
Moreover it's a "plus" to have a special name. May be she'll have to spell it all her life, but she will be remebered by every one and for ever!

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I have got an Annabella - she is never known as Anna which I am not keen on either. Don?t avoid Annabel (which is lovely and easier than Amabel as one or two people have pointed out with varying degrees of strength of feeling!) because you don?t like Anna - if you never shorten her name to Anna then no one else will.

This was a top contender for my dh and I with our oldest we ended up not using it because we thought just that she will ALWAYS need to spell it.. So we gave dd1 a perfectly normal name Phoebe.. and guess what

we have to spell it ALL the time.. It amazes me when you use traditional spellings that this becomes a issue..

my youngest is called Aoife yes she has to spell it yes she was able to spell it from when she was 3 years old she is now 6 and she loves her name and loves how special it is (no we dont live in Ireland lol I know there is many there) So I have come to the conclusion that it is about how we make it if you explain to your daughter why you picked it how much both daddy and you loved the name and how special it is for you that she is named something the 2 of you together picked and loved she will grow up thinking her name is beautiful and lovely and will have a certain pride in spelling it "A M A"

I would also point out that Annabell would need to be spelt

Anabel
Annabell
Anabell
Annabella
Annabelle
Anabele
Anabela
Annabele
Annabela
All ways to spell that name so even if you went safe and went with Annabell she would need to spell it

People will mistake it for Anabel all the time I am afraid.

I think people will also call her Annabel assuming that Ammabell is a typo! Sorry!

Yes, but you can have a really simple name like Jane/Jayne and have to spell it all the time.

Really don't like your choice though.

Stupid name. Sounds made-up. Makes you look daft. Poor kid. Why saddle her with a name she'll have to spell and explain all her life? Annabel is beautiful.

If you want 'lovable' or rather 'loved' you could try Aimee (sorry can't type the accent). On the other hand that will automatically be mistaken for Amy.

Personally I would go for Anna. Lovely name.

Yes. My given name is Cathleen - and I swear that I might as well have been christened CathleenwithaC. It is SUCH a pain in the neck. Please don"t do it!

Why not call her Annabel and shorten it to Belle?

Amabel is quite nice... It would mean lovable in franch to : more or less "aimable"
My sons"names are Rémi and Jehan. (we are Belgian and french speaking) they are 20 AND they still have to spell their names because in french "Rémi" is usually written without an accent and whith a "y". And yet I didn't invent it : it was my grand father's name. It is just not very common!
My son Jehan has a bigger problem : nobody pronounce it right "JE-AN" He hears "Juan" ou "Johan". And yet Jehan is a real name to : it is "John" in the medieval way. But one more time it is not very common!
It must be the price to pay to be a little bit original ...

I like it. Amabel means lovable

I know one but she pronounces it Ay-ma-bel, presumably to get round the Annabel issue.

Think so, at least that's how I'd say it. I read somewhere that Mabel comes from Amabel, and in medieval times Mabel was pronounced "Mabbell" not "Maybel"...

How is Amabell pronouced?

Is it Annabel with a m sound?

Well I agree with Maggie re frenchification except that for me the true name is Isobel. And I just don't like any variant of Annabel(le). Comes across as Tinkerbell. isn't Amabel the Hebrew original? (someone who knows these things please correct me). But I agree that the poor child will always be correcting people. It's like Amelia/Emilia.

i mean an isabel or an isabelle obviously.

i like annabel and isabelle but not annabelle or isabelle, and i can tell without seeing it written down if a child is an isabelle or an isabelle. same goes for Juliette/Juliet extra letters, go to room 101, or France.

I don't like it much. That or Annabel. But I have a problem with names ending in 'Belle'.

But yes she will be constantly correcting people. Or change her name to Annabel.

Mabel is lovely.

The worst spelling I've ver seen was 'Anabelle', Why?! A whole life saying 'no, only 1 N, and 'Elle' on the end'

If you want the "Am" sound,why not Amelie or Amelia?

Annabel is a beautiful name, btw and fwiw I hated the shortening of Isabel to Izzy when I was pregnant. Now that she is here I love it although she never gets her name shortened anyway.