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

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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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befuzzled · 12/05/2011 22:27

Ella and Issy

PurveyorOfBaloney · 12/05/2011 22:33

Know a rather cool teenage Isabelle known as Whizz

MoshiMonstersRUs · 12/05/2011 22:51

The Isabel I know is Belle, Bella or Izzy

ChuckYouFarlie · 13/05/2011 00:42

Was Zsa Zsa Gabor an Isabelle?

Hmm
maisiestar · 13/05/2011 00:48

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

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.

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

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).

AnonymousBird · 14/05/2011 20:14

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

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.

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.

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.

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!!

SandStorm · 15/05/2011 22:53

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

DaisyHayes · 15/05/2011 23:41

AnonymousBird - It's pronounced Izz-Oh.

whodunnit · 15/05/2011 23:47

My DD Isabella is just Izzy at school which I resisted myself,but now often call her. I don't like it either, to the point where I would have called her something else if I knew then that would be her nickname. It sometimes gets shortened to Is at home.

BibiBelle · 15/05/2011 23:58

DD1 is Ella but she has decided at the ripe old age of 6yrs to ask her teacher to call her by her full title Isabella Grin

She was named after my great aunt who was known as Isa

crystalglasses · 16/05/2011 00:08

Bella is lovely

Tigerbomb · 16/05/2011 00:48

Isabelle and Isabella are beautiful names.

My DN is Isabella and it is shortened to Bella which I rarely use.

It reminds me of Bella Emburg from the Russ Abbott show

startail · 16/05/2011 12:44

The two we have at school are Issy and Izzie and very precise about it.
A friend has a little Isabel who she calls Tink from Tinkerbell, But her brother calls her Tizzy (because he says that's what she gets in)

kizzybell · 24/02/2012 19:43

when i was younger there were two isobels/isabel in my class it was very hard to know who was talking to who, as we were both best friends. a year later i shortened my name to izzy which i much prefer to anything else.

MrsBovary · 24/02/2012 20:00

Yes, what Angryfeet said. Usually Isobel/Isabel/Isabelle = Izzy and Isabella - Bella

BuntyPenfold · 24/02/2012 20:51

I know one called Bella and one called Liz. And about fifteen called Izzy tbh.

kiteflying · 25/02/2012 13:16

My Isabel is nn Bella and/or Bella-boo. She prefers Isabel to anything else. Which is annoying as I actually named her Bella but did the "long name for the birth certificate" thing and it stuck.

bolbz12345 · 12/03/2015 06:56

My name is Isobelle but I call myself IzzI... just to be different I guess