To change my name from Elizabeth

[awkwardasfuck]

God I just hate it. It sounds like lizard. It's a Christian name meaning "loved by god" and I'm a staunch atheist. It was the Queens name and I'm firmly anti royal. It was my maternal grandmothers name and she was abusive to my mum, who, in turn, has passed that trauma and abuse onto me to the point where we are no contact. Ive always been called Lisa but I don't like that much either.

I've been going by Lis, pronounced "Liss" but what can I move to? Urgh.

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

Savannah.

Nobody has mentioned Bessy,.

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

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?

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,

Nobody has mentioned Bessy,.

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

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.

Elise?

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.

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.

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

Betty

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!

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.

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

Why fixate on two people called Elizabeth who you don't like? Think about other Elizabeths - Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Bennett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Midler ...

You should get the Kinder app - you just swipe through a ton of names and save the ones you like. I think changing your name is such an empowering moment - congratulations and good luck choosing one!

Do it! Changing my name was such a relieving thing for me, like you some abuse issues and it just felt like a weight off my shoulders choosing my name rather than the one she gave me. Very easy to do to officially, just need a free deed poll template.

My grandma with your name was known as Bessie.

Informally, we can ask to be called by whatever we like. Formal changes need to be made via deed poll.

As a little girl I wanted to be named Patsy………why, I just can’t understand and now it just conjures up images of Patsy on Absolutely Fabulous played by the even more fabulous Joanna Lumley. Thankfully my parents refused to change my name 😂

Aww that's a shame.

My 18 month old daughter is called Elisabeth.

It's a really pretty name and suits her very well.

The same name as the most beloved character in literature and you want to change it?! 😀Elizabeth Bennett was also known as Eliza or Lizzy but as others have said there are lots of permutations and they can’t all have bad connotations.

Yep change it - you list many valid reasons. I never knew what bothered be about Elizabeth and now I totally agree - it’s the lizard factor.

Maybe change your name to Ella or your middle name or something entirely different. I would feel like an international white collar criminal changing my name entirely but you could.

LOVE Bessie suggestion !