What is your favourite shortening of Elizabeth and Alexandra

[NighteyesLovesGingerbread]

So having been roundly assured that Tess is not an acceptable nn for Elizabeth what is your favourite shortening of:

Elizabeth/Elisabeth
Alexandra

Thanks

such a big range of ideas!

yes I know they will likely pick their own or develop their own nn with their friends as they grow - but surely I'm allowed to start off with one I actually like?!

I am listing all the options and will get DH to rank them and see if we can agree on any!!

Libby and Alex

Lexie is awful!

Zizzy for Elizabeth.

Lexa for Alexandra.

Oooh! I really like Zizzy! which is more in keeping with our other DC nicknames (i.e. not actually a recognisable name to anyone else!)

Lexa is a really nice alternative to Lexi too!

Betty or betsy or bess and Lex

Betsy and Sandy

Beth and Alex.

I love the name Betty. I have an Auntie Betty, but it would be fab for a child too.

My Alexandra (10) is known as Alex, which is sometimes shortened to Al. They all suit her very well. I liked Lexi until my DM attached Lou to it - Alex's middle name is louise. She has a friend called alexia who is always called Lexi. My dd loves sasha which is a Russian shortening of alexandra I believe. Actually love the name Sasha but our last name begins Sh and it doesn't work!

My Alexandra is a Lexi. She was Alex for about a year until she went to nursery and had to compete for the name with a little boy. She suits Lexi. It's different enough for no one else in her school to have it yet she retains the right to rename herself as the gender non-specific Alex on her CV in later years.

Her grandmother is an Elizabeth, known as Betty.

Beth
Alix (great name)

Beth and Lexie

Lizzy and Alexa.

We have numerous Elizabeths in our family - Betty, Eliza, Beth, Lilli, Liz... If I ever have a DD I'd like to call her Elizabeth. Ideally I'd have called her Betsi or Bess for short but neither sound great with our surname. She'd have to be a Lissy, I think. Not that DH would go for that!

I can't say I'm a huge fan of any Alexandra names, personally. I might go for something like Lexa if I had to choose.

Liz and Alex, but actually I like the full versions best.

I've heard of people using Bunny as a nickname for Elizabeth. No idea why but I think it's an adorable nn for a little girl

Beth and Alex/Alix.

Can't bear Lexie - it was a very popular baby name near where I used to work, and the screams of Lex-AYY! were off-putting to say the least.

Effie for Elizabeth and
Andra (Ann-dra) for Alexandra

Ellie and Alex

Beth and Libby
Alexa or Alexi

Lizzie and Alex

Lisbet and Ani (relative shortens hers to that).

Bess/Lily and Alex

Lilybet and Lexie