To change my name from Elizabeth

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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 it's a beautiful name with so many options to shorten . I am not fussed on my own name but even if I changed it everyone would still know me refer to me as it.

Lilibeth? 😂

Lizzy-B

L-Beth

El-Be

I wuite like ELL

Izabeth

I know an Elizabeth who goes by many names depending on when people first met her. These days she uses her full name, but answers to Liz, Lizzy, Beth, Bess and Bessy.

Eliza is nice.

Karen could be a good choice!

Liberty

Liberty sounds too much like an exotic dancer name to me.

QE2 😂😂😂😂😂

To me, too often associated with an ancient, aproned old servant in old novels! But I have both a niece and a great-niece with that name, and so have kept my opinion to myself.

I love your name. I hate my own name and Elizabeth is one of the names I’d choose instead.

The grass is always greener, I suppose.

Lissy, it is still very much related to Elizabeth (ie Lizzy) but it's softer sounding.

I think Lis/Liss will still get heard as "Liz", but Lissy is less common so it works better.

Also it's like it's a nickname for Lisa, which you have been going by. Lissy has got three of the four letters of Lisa!

Elizabeth is a great "long" name though. It sounds so commanding and firm (in a good way). Being four syllables, it goes well with surnames of all lengths - one syllable, two syllables, three syllables... There's a lot of positives about having the first name Elizabeth. Everyone knows how to spell it too.

I wouldn't be surprised as it's not something I've heard of before.

Use your middle name perhaps?

Mary Truss and Leonard Callaghan did, for example.

Zara?

I'd then be copying my cousins name as well as using the name of someone who was quite a bully to me - I also really don't like the name in general

I popped in to say this.

I know of a young Betty: she’s cool AF and hard as nails.

Another I haven’t seen mentioned yet is Effy - I know a young Effy who is likewise super cool.

Elizabeth is a great name with so many variants as everyone has said. Hannah is nice too as is Lisa.

Why not some combination of the 2? Annalise/Annelise or Lisanne? Or Alice/Alys/Alysanne?

Libby.

Lilith? The opposite of the meaning of Elizabeth whilst also being close enough to Lily that it could still be a derivative of Elizabeth.

I think you should definitely change it because you have very good reasons to do so.
I'm also very anti-monarchy and I'd have hated it if I was called Elizabeth but I like Beth so I'd probably have used that instead.

You can take some time to make a list of names you like and names you don't like. It can be something completely different to Elizabeth.

Adding to this OP, my name is Alicia and my closest friends call me Lis (pronounced Liss). Just another option. Branching out from that Alice, Alyssa, Elise or Elisa can all work.

Zizi's fun and it always reminds me of the fabulous ballet dancer, Zizi Jeanmaire. This was her: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419929/mediaviewer/rm533091072/?ref_=nm_ov_ph

I'm thinking of just moving away from Elizabeth in all it's forms to be honest, I've never liked it, or Lisa, or any of the dims since I was old enough to know what my name is.

I don't know how many other people go through that but I feel ready to change entirely.

Calista or Lis still for short as suggested up thread kind of speaks to me