Elegant but unusual baby girl names

[sunshinelollipopz]

Really struggling for our baby girl's names - feel like I've exhausted everything at this point!

We love elegant and pretty names that easily shorten to a nice nickname from the first syllable.

As we do want the easy nickname, we've ruled out some favourites:

Felicity
Matilda
Delilah
Daphne

Been through all the usual Ottilie, Gwendoline etc but just can't find something with a pretty nickname alongside the long name that fits our vibe.

Help!

Clementine - Clemmie
Bryony - Bry
Josephine - Jo
Victoria - Vix
Verity - V

Seraphina nn Sephy 😍

Adela - Della
Linnéa - Néa

Prunella - Pru - Prune
Yvette - Eve
Francine - Fran

Ariadne (Ari)

I think it's the mix up between a nickname as I understand it and a regular shortening eg Beth or Lizzie as a recognised short form of Elizabeth, Ed or Eddie for Edward.

My children have two syllable names which are hard to shorten, but their nicknames evolved over time because of either things that happened or personality traits and they have nothing to do with their given names. It's like Sting's friends called him that because he constantly wore a black and yellow jumper.

In your shoes I'd probably choose Katherine and shorten to Kat or Kitty, or Perdita and go for Purdy, although I see that means lost or abandoned.

In my experience, a lot of girls names get shortened with an ‘s’ on the end, for example:

Becs
Mags
Debs

you may need to start with a nickname you like! But some others:

Cordelia - Cordy
Delilah - Dee
Eleanor - Elle
Margaret - Maggie/Mags
Natasha - Nat/Tash
Sidney - Sid

Meredith- Merry
Constance - Connie
Cora - Coco
Violet - Vi
Bluebell - Blue
Theodora- Thea/Teddy
Marguerite- Margo

Agatha, Ags, Aggie.

ESMERELDA. - ESME

Verity

Penelope - Penny, Nell
Alberta - Al, Ally, Bertie
Leonora - Lea, Nora
Rosalie - Rose, Rosa

Sarah nn Sadie
Louisa nn lulu
Sylvia nn sylvie
Edith nn Edie
Alexaandra nn Ali
Susanna nn Susie
Jennifer nn jeni

Camila - Cam/Cam
Alexina - Ali/Alex
Anais - Ani

Evelyn - Evie

Saskia - Sassy

Tabitha/Tabby.

Rosalie - Rosa or Rose?

oh just saw that's been vetoed! oops!

Eloise - Elle

Calliope - Callie
Elsbeth - Els/Elsie
Josephine - Josie
Lauralie - Laurie
Euphemia - Effie
Beatrice - Bea

Love Eloise <3

Venetia nn Neesha

Sibylla, nn could be Sisi, Billa...

Both names not on the latest ONS baby name list. You won't encounter another Venetia or Sibylla.

I love both.

Emmeline
Josephine
Gabrielle
Florence
Elouise
Rowena
Verity
Marcella
Christina

Josephine - Josie/Jossie/Joss