Nickname Bea...whats the full name for a girl?

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Love the name Bea but husband is not keen on Beatrice (its a personal bad association with someone he disliked)...are there any other options?

Its ok if they are not so obvious. I met a Balen which I liked but not sure works not being spanish.

please suggest other names

I know an Abigail and a Phoebe who sometimes go by Bee.

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Tabitha

Why does it have to be Bea?

Can't it be Bee? That would widen up the choices for you, and stop everyone fixating on Beatrice.

I'm also surprised at people with names like Bethany and Briony shortened to Bea-with-an-a. Again, why isn't it Bee...? Where does the random 'a' come from?

Sorry. Meant to clarify I like the pronunciation "Bay-a" not bee.

Its the Italian way, short for Beatrice, which is Bay- a-tree- che.

So I guess I am looking for other names with b in it or bay in it or something along those lines.

Not keen on Bay-a!!!

Berenice?

I also know a Beata, which I think is pretty.

The only name I can think of with Bay in it is the Samoan name Eapeisi which is pronounced Air-BAY-see

I think it might be hard for native English to get bay a, even from Beatrice you usually hear bee a.

Bettina

Betty

The baya way of pronouncing it, will make it pretty hard for English speakers to think of an alternative I fear.

I know a Rebecca who is B...

Well if that's the pronunciation you like, Beata is a no-brainer!

Beata is lovely.

B pronunciation - I think Beatrice. But it could also be Belinda, Betty, Barbara... It's the name of my childhood bunny (B, not Barbara!)

Bay-a I've no idea. Italian and Spainish would obviously be Beatrice.

By the way, it's Belen in Spanish, I've never heard of Balen. (Belen is the Nativity).

Yes. sorry typo. I meant Belen.
How do you pronounce Beata?

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Belen
Bettina

Bee AH ta

Can also be spelled Beate but pronounced the same way.

Sometimes Bay AH ta

If you like Bea I would just use that

Abigail
Belinda
Phoebe

Just from reading Beate, I'd pronounce it bee-ta until you told me it was correct or not.
Spanish/Italian pronunciation would be beh-A-teh.
I know a few Belens of different ages, although it isn't a super-popular name (I live in Spain).

Where I am it's Bey-ah-ta.

Bey rhyming with whey
Ah as the a in amish
and ta rhyming with the 'ca in arnica.

(Trying to figure out if I can actually hear any difference between whey and way and not sure I can...)

Balen is French for whale, beware!

My brother-in-law's mum is called Bea, it's short for Beaufighter. All 3 of her sisters are named after aircraft, and their brother is called Vosper or something, after a ship. I think their dad was a bit eccentric. He had his own small tank, shortwave radio transmitter and used to continually suggest reasons for starting a war.

Beaufighter is a lovely name, though. Nice and summery.