Annabelle - What would it be shortened to? Nickname?

[Lulu]

I found people followed my lead, I always called her Isabelle and others did too. WTF did people come up with for Matilda?

[DaintreeDream]

I call her Matilda, I never shorten it to anything but there are a fair few people on both sides of the family that call her Tilda, actually this is the only thing that people have ever shortened it to and I really do not like it but oh well.

Mind you I do not mind if her grandparents use it so much but it seems everyone does!

[Lulu]

Oh jeez. Think I'd prefer Tilly over that. How hard can it be to stick a Ma at the start of it? lol

[Olive]

Id shorten it to annie!! i love annabelle!! it also depends on how you spell it, i prefer Annabel

[DaintreeDream]

Yeah I really like the spelling Annabelle, but I think you are right, with the full spelling of Belle it is really putting it out there. I do like the name Belle, but I prefer not to name my child it if you know what I mean.

I LOVE Annie and it is part of my reason for choosing the name Annabelle as I think Annie is a bit incomplete and I do not DH would go for just Annie either where as Annabelle is really growing on him .

[Liviam]

OMG I absolutely love annabelle!! DH thought it would be shorten to Anna and I thought Bella. I hate it how everyone always has to shorten names. People are at us at to what they can call William. I said how about William - you know his name!!

[MrsFabuloso]

I adore the name Annabelle and would use it if I ever had another girl. I would shorten it to Annie, so cute! Though I have known two Annabelle's and both have been shortened to Bella. But in saying that I would think that people would follow your lead and call her what you would call her??
Other 'ana' name I love is Anneliese and one I heard not long ago and thought was pretty but different is Anazandra.

[~clover~]

I know a little girl called Annabelle & it hasn't been shortened by anyone yet at 6.
I guess Annie or Belle would be the obvious ones. Ann, Bella, Anna. Don't think there are any others.

[bon]

I call her Matilda, I never shorten it to anything but there are a fair few people on both sides of the family that call her Tilda, actually this is the only thing that people have ever shortened it to and I really do not like it but oh well.

Mind you I do not mind if her grandparents use it so much but it seems everyone does!

Our Matilda is Tilda to everyone too - we never intended for her name to be shortened to that, but when she was born her older brother and sister had trouble with saying Matilda, they always said Tilda. So Tilda it was, pretty much from the day she was born. I don't mind it so much. She also gets Til, Tild, Matilda-bot (from DH), Tildie, and Mopsy (from her grandparents, because she had a 'mop' of hair when she was little).

[beckleberry]

My sisters name is Kate and my mum drilled it into her that she is not Katie as my mum hated that name and cos she told her that I remember at school her telling kids "My names not Katie"
So I think in some ways you can control it a little...
I know a someone with a Thomas and he is not called anything else by family and friends but recently started school and one of his little friends called and asked to speak to Tommy and she told him he had the wrong number before she realised he was talking about Thomas LOL Thought that was kinda funny...

[Kazmar]

Hello! Just found this thread!
Im loving you hae chosen 'Annabelle' also with that spelling. Though Annabelle is a well known name its not common at all!
Its an old classic As for nicknames, I figure people will call your baby what ever you introduce them as.
I introduce Annabelle as, Annabelle, therefore thats what she gets. The only people that shorten it are 'Smiles4u' and its a cute nickname And my Europian side of the family call her Bella, on occasion. But then again they call all the girls in the family Bella