Annabelle - What would it be shortened to? Nickname?

[DaintreeDream]

We are still deciding on names at the moment and we are having alot of trouble this time around and it is mainly because we are very aware of how the name with be shortened and therefore the nickname our DD will have, so...

Annabelle

What is your first thought of the shortened version/nickname?

Thanks!

[Phteven]

Bella.

[Santosha]

Anna
Annie
Bella
Belle
Bellie
Elle
Ellie

... I can't think of any really problematic shortenings. It's a beautiful name. Totally kwym about the concern around nicknames. DH and I really liked the name April but decided against it as I was so concerned that she would get called 'Ape'!!

[Eenee]

there are two ways this name could be shortened- Anna and Belle. Well that's what i would think anyway.

[feeb]

Anna, Annie or Bella

this is a name I love

[bon]

My first thought would be to shorten it to Anna. But Bella is lovely too

[Lulu]

I ended up going with Isabelle because I didn't want Annabelle shortened to Anna. Wouldn't have made any difference because I always call her by her full name, her friends call her Bella (yay for Twilight! ). It's not like Anna is a horrible name anyway, it's rather sweet.

I love love love Annabelle and sometimes wish I stuck with it, mainly since Isabelle went and got all trendy

In LONG - I'd say don't worry about either nickname because they are both lovely xoxoxo

[DaintreeDream]

Ok so heres the deal, I am such a picky picky person when I name my children I want them to be called the name I have named them, in full. If they have a nickname, I want it to be the nickname I have chosen, I completely understand that once friends get involved I will have absolutly no say as to what they are called but I was kind of hoping that I could drill the 'nice' nicknames into them before this happens .
So anyway, when we named Matilda we thought that it could not be shortened to anything that we did not like, but it did, and I hate it! So I am trying to avaoid this happening again.
However I love Annabelle but I am not much of a fan of 'Belle' or 'Bella', I think it is pretty but I do not want to use it and I have a funny feeling this is the first thing people will go for, I LOVE Annie though, I would love the name Annabekke, shortened to Annie if it must be shortened.

Ok I think I have got it all out. I am just being silly!

[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

[~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...

[LucaJack'sMum]

I think Belle...