Elizabeth

[Firebird83]

DD due in May is most likely going to be called Elizabeth. What are your favourite diminutives or shortened forms for it? Thanks

On my birth certificate I have a longer different name than what my parents called me. I absolutely hate going to the doctors hospital dentist etc as I don't feel connected to that name. It still feels like they are referring to someone else and I'm 37. Most probably wouldn't care but thought it was worth a mention.

@ringoutthebells

I like Effie for short.

Effie isn’t short for Elizabeth. It’s short for Euphemia.

Zizi from Elizabeth is nice, its also something that you don't hear a lot too.

I like Lizzie.

Lizzie, Liz or Libby

I really like Eliza as a stand alone name but it's still 3 syllables so not much of a shortening from Elizabeth

Elizabeth really is a fabulous name!

I have an Elizabeth- she is know as Izzie. She also likes to be called Iz!

DD’s official name is Elizabeth, which I love. However she’s known as Lik

Sorry Lily, which I also love.
Also Beth, Lizzy, Betty
Dob’t like Liz

Libby or Eliza. I’m not sure how I could choose between them!

@Snowiscold agreed. My parents nearly called me Euphemia (which I actually quite like) and my mum liked the shortening Phim, but settled on Elizabeth and I love it on full or shortened. My sister is Dorothy but was nearly Barbara - how different it could have been if we were Euphemia and Barbara rather than Elizabeth and Dorothy (Lizzie and Dot)!

One of my best friends is Elizabeth. She's 50 now and we've been friends since teens. She started being known as Liza when she was early 20s and everyone shortened her name; but then met her husband to be, who has a sister named Lisa and a cousin Liza, so went back to Elizabeth. She has always hated anyone calling her Liz or Lizzy and rightly corrects them.

She equally can't bare Betsy, Beth etc

I'm an Elizabeth but seem to be in the minority who hates it! Don't like the full thing, don't like the common nicknames (I've never chosen to go by any of them but have been called various ones over the years).
Beth or Eliza are probably my favourites but as standalone names. Elizabeth has always seemed too fusty, formal and old-fashioned to me.

I thought of this when naming my DD and DS - and I like all of the diminutives of their full names but they both (now adults - choose to use their full names).
I have a friend who was my sons best friend from reception, called Maximilian and his mum was always appalled when his friends etc called him max, would complain to the school and to parents of his friends. I was shocked that she thought this wouldn't happen! He's 18 now and she has finally accepted that he will forever now be known as Max as it's his choice.

Elizabeth known as Libby is my all time favourite band

Libby or Betty. Maybe Bess, but I've known too many horses called that so I just couldn't!

Confession - it's my name.

Definitely not Betty, it's bloody awful. I don't like Beth either. Friends call me Liz or occasionally Lizzie. My great granny was always called Eliza and her daughter, my great aunt, was Bessie.

My family call me Elizabeth and if I introduce myself as that, you are honoured because to me it's really personal.

Ellie or Libby or Eliza

Beth

Betsy

My Elizabeth is a Lizzie for now. Lovely name.

@peaceinourtime

Zizi from Elizabeth is nice, its also something that you don't hear a lot too.

Maybe not so good if you know anyone french though.

I love Beth or Lizzie

Elizabeth is horrible but Libby is nice.

Bessie

I have an Elizabeth but she gets called Beth.

Betty, Elsie or Lily
Fun story: both my grandmother and her sister were named Elizabeth, one known as Betty and the other Lily. My great grandmother loved the name so much! My grandmother was born the same year as the Queen, then princess, and named after her. Her sister followed ten years later.