Beatrix

[pixieloux]

What would you automatically shorten Beatrix to... Bea, Trixie or something else entirely? Thanks!

Beattie?

It's a lovely name. I'd use Trixie for short.

B probably (if pronounced Bee-er-trix)

Bea (pronounced Bayer), if whole name pronounced Bayer-trix

Would be Bee-Ah-Trix as I’ve honeslty never heard Bay-Er-Trix/Bayer before lol.

I'd probably shorten it to one syllable Bee/Trix

Trixie is the one which first sprang to my mind. Otherwise Bee or Bee-ah. I know a little Beatrice who gets Bea and I think it’s cutez

Cute not cutez!

We like Bea and could live with Trixie but it’s very rhymey with DD2’s so I think I’d get tongue tied saying them together lol. We’re trying to narrow down our options so thought I’d ask. I did say to DH that Bea would come more naturally from Beatrice but he’s not so keen on it despite the small difference.

I'm not keen on Trixie so Bea or Beattie.

B or Bea

Beatrix is a lovely name

I'd probably shorten it to Trixie. However, if you call her Bea then others would no doubt follow suit x

@DC18 That’s true as people call DD2 Letty over Vi - It’s just what she’s always been naturally called (or Ettie/Ets... I think we just like -et names lol)

I guess I was trying to work out what the most natural NN is but she could chose to go by Trixie despite what other people think. I guess Letty & Trixie isn’t too bad? Having the same issue with Letty & Cece (Cecily) I’m over analysing our list now as we could have potentially had a Rora & a Flora lol (Aurora & Florence)

I love longer names that can be shortened so they can have a choice of what to go by... I don’t want to chose a name for them that they feel they have to go by or that we’ll get tongue tied saying with their siblings lol. Over thinking, I know but it’s genuinely something I like about our LO’s names - they all have a few NNs of quite varying styles to choose from.

I'd shorten it to Bee, which is cute.

I can't stand Trixie, it makes me think of a yappy terrier.

Reese is another abbreviation of the French Beatrice,
The Italian version Beatrice, pronounced Bay-ah tree-chay is abbreviated to Tree.
Beatrix is more Northern European.
Beata is more polish and Baltic.

Careful of this one though, as it’s also abbreviated to Beer Tricks, for those who stick an R in to every word where there is none, so Beer pong, yard of ale could be the nic name

I like Felicity.. shortened to Flick.

@UserHistory The Flick NN is what is putting us off Felicity, which is on our list, as is Liss/Lissy with Letty.

We have a Beatrix who is just called Beatrix, but occasionally shortened to trixie, or trixiebelle, I love it. Hate the name Beatrice though & bea, & if anyone does call her bea, they do get corrected. Beatrix is such a beautiful name!

@teenybean How would you feel if she chose to go by Bea? I think I’d whince at but at Flick for Felicity, for example which is why I think it’s out of the running for us. I don’t mind Trixie if she ever chose to go by it although Bea would be our first choice as a NN if we went with Beatrix.

@pixieloux I'd cringe, but it's her name, so I'd respect her wishes, I'd probably just call her Beatrix, (as we mostly do anyway) but if she decided she would rather be called bea than Beatrix I'd go with it.

My sister has a Beatrix and said she preferred Trixie when pregnant, but Bea has come more naturally and is what everyone else automatically shortens it to. I think it's how you first introduce them that influences nickname the most.

The Beatrix I know (8) gets called Bix

Bix is cute!