Isabelle argh....

[Holdthepenproperlypleeeease]

I read on a couple of threads here that the name Isabelle sounds to some people like a question e.g. "is a bell.."Now i can't get this out of my mind and it's one of a few favoured names on our short list but it has spiked it a bit for me.

So how would you rate Isabelle? What other names might I also like?

*spoiled not spiked!

I love isabelle and can be shortened to belle. I'd rate it a 9!!

Or izzy?

I think Argh is a brilliant middle name!

It's a classic name.

Ishbel?
Isolde?
Sophie, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine, Florence?

I love Isabelle, my DS's best friend is called Izzy short for Isobelle - love it! I also like Annabelle. My grandmother was called this and everyone called her Belle.

Is a belle necessary on a door
But I doubt all the Isabelles out there are getting a terrible time, or. There wouldn't be so many running about.

It's very popular. But please spell it Isobel.

aunty

Beautiful name. Please DON'T spell it Isobel!!!

I don't like Izzy which is why I can't use it but it's such a lovely, girly, pretty name, go for it!

I have an Isabelle, likes Izzy. I still love it. She's not been referred to as 'is a bell necessary on a bike. Great choice of spellings - Isobel, Scottish; Isabel, Spanish, and the above -French. Or even Isabella.

Isobel by far the nicest spelling imvho.

Another one saying please don't spell it Isobel
It's not madly exciting, but nothing really wrong with the name.

Thanks everyone

To those saying not to spell it Isobel, why not would you say?

Love it - DD's middle name is Isabel (were in Spain at the time, hence that spelling) - was almost her first name up until we got there to register her.

Can I throw in the common Spanish shortening Isa which which we'd have used, short & sweet for a little girl :)

And Aaargh would be the perfect middle name for a teenager . . .

Isabel is lovely.

I love it too, just wish I could erase the "is a bell.." thing from my mind.

It's a pretty name however you spell it.

To me, it doesn't really sound like "is a bell" because you don't stress it in the same way (I'd say Isabelle/Isobel with emphasis on the first syllable, but in the phrase "is a bell necessary", I'd put the stress on "bell" and not "is").

I personally just think the Isobel version doesn't look nice. Isabel/Isabelle are beautiful though.

"Sophie, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Catherine, Florence?"

Classic and beautiful sounding names with lots of possible nicknames.

For Isabelle, I suppose Izzie will be the inevitable nn or would Lizzie pass?

Purely in terms of nicknames, what's nicer, Izzie for Isabelle or Lizzie for either Isabelle or Elizabeth?

I don't think that Isabel (or any of it's variants) leads itself to Lizzie, which I think is really is only one of the many diminutives for Elizabeth.

I know one Isabel and one Isabella and have never heard either of them called anything other than their full name.

Personally I like Izzie or Lizzie.

Thank you for indulging me in my indecisiveness and bearing with my inane musings [grin[. Off to sleep. x