Girls names - no abbreviations!

[Winter123]

Any suggestions for girls names that can't be abbreviated?! I really like Isabella but hate the idea of people abbreviating it to Izzie. DH and I have people abbreviate our names all the time and hate it!

At the minute we also like Alice (praying no one calls them Ali) and Imogen.

I worked with an Edward who was universally known as ed. so my rather nickname obsessed team would use a longer nn taken from his surname instead

Beth
Meg
Claire
June
Jane/Jayne
Avril
Lyra
Mara
Elle
Hope
Ida
Aida
Fern

Just as a heads up,I know two Ethan's,and both get called 'Ethe'.

I also know a Harrison,who is never,ever Harry.

Thanks for all the suggestions!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I won't make it the most important thing. Would just be such a bonus for DH and I. I suppose I shoud have just said names that can't be abbreviated easily!

Erin (one if the reasons I choose it)

Leila

I know a Savannah who is called Sav.

Faith is lovely! But whatever you choose just to bear in mind that further down the line no matter what the original name is someone somewhere finds a nn that your child may like answer too which YOU might not like! Some names actually get lengthened as a nick name! I speak from experience!

My mum gave me a name she thought couldn't be abbreviated. She was very wrong.

I know a Lauren who is nn lol or lolly.

And with short names, people will lengthen them eg Ruth to Ruthie.

My neice is called Imogen - and is known as Jenny (so multiple ways to abbreviate).
Names I've come across that don't seem to get shortened (although some are already abbreviations of longer names):
Ann, Carly, Fran, Hannah, Gail, Jane, Jill, Kate, Lucy, Mae, Naomi, Petra, Ria, Sarah, Tina, Wendy, Yvonne.

Rae
Maud
Gail
Leigh
Lana

Faith is very pretty though, as are Alice and Imogen.

My mother was called Clare because my grandmother hated shortenings. My grandfather then called her Clarabella/Bella/Bella Bee/Bee! Generally I'd say it was fairly safe for nicknames though.

I've a long very unusual name with a common shortening, my mother told people she didn't like the shortening when I was little, and then I told them the same when I was older. Apart from a short period in my teens when I was desperate for a nickname I have always been known by my full name. I don't respond to the shortening, so people generally don't try more than once! I could see it might be much harder if you have a name where people automatically go for the nick name, like Victoria/Vicky, Deborah/Debbie etc.

Faith is a lovely name. If you don't want people to abbreviate a name then I think you just have to be honest with people and tell them not to. I remember my Mum telling off my brother's teachers for shortening his name. It's a name that people will naturally shorten but with my mum being so insistent, nobody did it. He is now 22 and does shorten his name but only because he wants to, not because it suits other people. My name can't be shortened at all but still people would try calling me Caz, there is no z in my name!