Help please. Elizabeth variants needed.

[Elllimam]

Hoping someone can help. We are due our second baby in the summer and if it is a girl we have kind of committed ourselves to naming her Elizabeth. Long story short it was my husbands grans name and we had agreed on it as our girl name for our DS. After my DS was born my husband told his mum that we had been planning on calling him after her mum if he had been a girl. Trouble is I am kind of going off it :/ Does anyone have any ideas for variants of Elizabeth we could use? Also open to first/middle name combinations as I am struggling for middle names too

Elise is my favourite girls name.

Elsa? Lisette?

But what's wrong with Elizabeth itself? It's classic and classy. There are loads of different nicknames you could use for every day.

Liesel

Bertha.

Betty/Betsy

I do love Eliza though. I had a relative called Elizabeth but everyone called her Betty

Lisa or Liza (as in Minelli)?

or Elisabetta if you want to go all Italian.

I knew someone Polish who was called Elzbieta, I think (maybe a little hard for Brits to pronounce it sounds a bit like elzh -byeta). The nickname was Ela, or as we would write it, Ella.

Elizabeth is my middle name. Whilst I like it I really hate the obvious nick name Liz. For that reason I would not use it as a forename unless I put that on the birth certificate but used a chosen abbreviation in the main.

I thought Nell was a nn for Helen? Happy to be corrected though.

I love Beth as a variant. It sounds soft, feminine, gentle.

Eilish. (pronounced Ail-ish).

So many if the variants are lovely though.

Nell is a nn for Helen or Eleanor.

Am not an expert on Irish names, but Professor Loreto Todd (in her book Celtic Names For Children, The O'Brien Press, Dublin, 2000, page 11) says that 'Eilish'/Ailis/Ailish is an Irish version of Alice which itself is a variation of Adelaide (which means 'noble' and 'kind').

She gives Iseabeal/Iseabeul/Sibeal/ Shibley (say Shib-ale, Shib-lee) as Irish versions of Elizabeth. I don't know whether any Irish Mumsnetters can confirm, or add others?

In Scotland, there is also Elspeth (as earlier posters have said) and Ishbel.

I've always heard Eilish as a version of Elizabeth. However other sources also list Isobel/Isabel as variants of Elizabeth so maybe thats where the connections come from?

Ink - as I said, I'm no expert. Nor am I Irish! Eilish is a pretty name, anyway.

To return to OP's original question - has anyone mentioned Bettina as a version of Elizabeth, or Betka...?

Eilish is very pretty. At the moment I am leaning towards Beth or Bethan as a nn for Elizabeth. I am not keen on Liz or Lizzie but I love most of the other nn's so as long as I put her off Liz we should be fine :) xx

Reading a book at the minuite that the main charchter is Elizabeth but everyone calls Daisy as that is apparently a nn for Elizabeth. I never would have thought that!

Can't believe no one has suggested Bunty.

Lilybet /lily ( like the queen!)

Daisy is a nn for Margaret or marguerite which daisy is in French. I'd imagine there's another reason why that had after is called daisy as its not a nn for Elizabeth per say ( obv people get nn in loads of ways - all ok but not the norm!)

What about Elisheva, which is the original Hebrew form of Elisabeth/Elizabeth, or its English form, Elisheba?