Gabrielle/Gabriella

[LolaTheShowgirl]

I love this name but would it encourage Gabby (which I hate!)?

(Lola, am not following you round, honest!)

Gabriella is lovely!

It is likely to be shortened to Gabi......

unless you get in there first with Ella

My children want me to call the next one Gabriella as they love the name since High School Musical. I love it. I prefer 'Ella' as a nickname rather than Gabby

Trouble is other people will just shorten it (or the child will themselves!). More likely to be Gabi than Ella IME.....

I know a Gabriella who is nicknamed Bree.

Lovely name.

The only Gabriela (German spelling) I know is known as Gabi (with a long aa).

I know a Gabrielle who is always, always known as Gabrielle.

How about Gi Gi for short?

was just going to ask this very q....

I think it's really unlikely that a Gabrielle could get away without being called Gaby at some point?

Gi Gi and Bree are awful - Ella is ok but if you like Ella, why not just call them Ella?

I like both but think you'd be very lucky to escape her being called Gaby otherwise it would have been on my shortlist too!

I have a Gabriella and no-one calls her Gaby. Can't bear Gaby - we actually do call her Gigi for short as does everyone else now! As long as you get in there with what you want to shorten it to 1st (if you want to shorten it at all!), you will find people will follow your lead (well, I did!)

I also know a Gabriella that is never shortened. Her mum made it clear it wasn't to be and the girl herself tells anyone off for trying to shorten it.

Mommyhasaheadache and Fimbo are right, IME. If both mother and daughter perfect their Paddington stare, the chosen name will not be abbreviated. My daughter, my niece and I all have very easily abbreviatable names, yet they never are because we made it plain that we didn't want it.

Or are we perhaps just a family of baattleaxes?

I have a friend called Gabrielle and we never ever call her Gabby - it so doesn't suit her. More than anything we refer to her as G...

Lol just spotted this, I would not allow Gabby for as long as I had a say in it I guess it depends how much you hate it as a nickname.

Mommyhasaheadache .. I love the name Gigi ... oh for a little girl so I can use that name! I don't think my ds would appreciate it much!

I know a few Gabrielle/llas. Most prefer Gabby, though.