Arabella or......

[livingthebeachhutlife]

What are your thoughts on Arabella?
Is it likely to be shortened? I prefer names that generally less likely to be shortened.
Would you name a girl this?

Still super unsure and lost re girls names.
Evelina really intruiged me on another post, so have been mulling that over.

Also really liking Lily Rose and Summer Rose but concerned they are a bit "sweet"?

I like it. I teach one who is always Arabella, not shortened. I know another one who is Bella.

I also teach an Ara (her name isn't Arabella, it's a Nigerian name but same nn) and I don't think it sounds awkward as a shortened name at all. It's no different to Ava, really.

Isn't Arabella the eponymous heroine of a Georgette Heyer novel?

Anna Maria
Artemisia
Brigitte
Caroline
Cecily
Clara
Dorothea
Elise
Francesca
Gabrielle
Jacynth
Katya
Laila
Linnet
Loveday
Lucia
Marguerite
Michelle
Minette
Pearl
Raffaella
Rosa
Ruth
Tamsyn
Shirley
Valeria

Sounds arrogant. Will likely be shortened to Bella too.
Fay
Lucy
Sarah
Katie
Emma
Grace
Leah
Dora
Julia
Harriet
Serena
Zoe
Amy
Alice
Laura
Olivia
Erica
Eden

Alys
Ariadne
Carmen
Emily
Irene
Iris
Lorine
Louisa
Marianne
Martina
Meriel
Moira
Nadia
Rosalind
Stevie
Yasmine

I really like Arabella

I love Arabella but unfortunately when we had DD I had the name filed under "name I love but would never actually use" and I do regret it now. It would definitely get shortened though. Personally I wouldn't mind because I also like Bella, which would be my go-to shortening.

Lily and Summer are both nice and Rose is fine as a middle name but please don't hyphenate them!

Evelina is pretty and quite unusual.