Hey, This is my first post and I have a rather odd problem so please bear with me.
It is important to me that dd has a name which can be shortened to Ebby when she gets here. I would like to sort-of name her after my grandmother Ebba (Swedish) who was like a mother to me after my mum died. She was known as Ebby which is a nickname dp and I both love, but we're struggling to find a ''proper'' name which can be shortened to Ebby. We have ruled out Ebba partly because we want her to be her own person, but also because we don't think it's a very nice name. We also don't want Ebby as the proper name as it wouldn't give dd many options of alternatives if she hates it, and I could imagine she would want a more ''grown-up'' and English sounding name when she is a bit older. I'm English, dp is German and we live in the UK, so the name also has to sound ok in English and German.
We've been racking our brains trying to think of another name which could be shortened to Ebby but haven't come across any. So we're trying to come up with a list of first and middle names with the initials E... B... I really like the names Esme and Bryony but I don't think they go together well with dp's second name (which is 2 syllables, very german sounding and begins with L). Pleeeease help with E or B names or names with Ebby as a nickname, we're running out of ideas.