# My baby girl name thread

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 12, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-girl-name-thread/445015 "2008-04-12T09:17:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-girl-name-thread/445015/41 "2008-04-13T09:16:03Z")

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\*\*Amarina \*\*Nice, but depends on your surname.  
**Arabella** Slightly oldfashioned, but in the mix of Isabella-type names, so quite popular at the moment.  
**Belena** Almost the same as **Boy from Mars** ’s surname, which is Italian. No from me because of that. And it sounds like a fat whale.  
**Casami** Means ‘my house’ in Italian - so a no from me because of that.  
**Cosette** A little Lady Marmalade for me (Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir…)  
**Jenessa** Hate it, sounds made up.  
**Mizumi** Reminds me of the soccer brand Mizuno, and also some salads here in Australia are known as mizuna.  
**Virginia** No - it’s got the word virgin in it, and kids aren’t kind. But the only person I know called Virginia calls herself Ginny.

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-girl-name-thread/445015/42 "2008-04-13T09:50:36Z")

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[QUOTE=fisha]  
I have an Elizabeth. I call her Elle, most everyone else calls her Ella.

A couple of other nicks for Elizabeth are Liddy, Vieta, Elise, Ellie, oh, and Eli.

Lots of options.  
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Nicknames for Elizabeth  
\* Babeth  
\* Babette  
\* Bee  
\* Bess  
\* Bessie  
\* Bet  
\* Beth  
\* Bethanne  
\* Bethey  
\* Betsy  
\* Betta

```
* Bette
* Bettina
* Betty
* Bezzy
* Bitty
* Biz
* Buffy
* Ela
* Elbinard
* Eli
* Elisa
* Elise

* Eliza
* Eliza-Beth
* Ella
* Elle
* Ellie
* Ellie-B
* Els
* Elsa
* Elsie
* Elsinue
* Elspeth

* Ely
* Ilsa
* Isabel
* Izabel
* Izzie
* Izzy
* Leeza
* Lib
* Libby
* Lidabet
* Lies

* Liesel
* Lili
* Lilibet
* Lilibeth
* Lible
* Lilie
* Lilla
* Lillah
* Lilli
* Lillibet
* Lillibeth

* Lillie
* Lilly
* Lily
* Lisa
* Lisbet
* Lisbeth
* Lisette
* Lissy
* Liz
* Liza
* Lizabeth

* Lizbee
* Lizine
* Lizz
* Lizzette
* Lizzie
* Lizzy
* Tetty
* Tibby
* Wiz
* Zabe

```

I do not like any of them, That is the issue there.

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-girl-name-thread/445015/43 "2008-04-13T09:52:28Z")

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[QUOTE=eleanorigby]  
Mess with their heads and go with Lydia or Georgianna. Or even Jane… Wickham? heh.  
I like Arabella and am flummoxed at the concern re Arab in the name? Hell, I’d name her that just to fight some major ignorance there. I like Bella as a nick. Jenessa sounds uneducated and trashy, to my mind, but I’m not Australian, and I have a prejudice against J names for girls. I think most of them sound icky. Sorry.

Virginia is nice and I love the nick Ginny.

The rest are just meh. Muzima sounds like either a small compact car or electrical appliance or a brand of makeup to me.

I thought you were having a son? What happened to Tiano?  
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My wife is pregnant. She is due in October. We do not know what sex the baby will be

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**Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-baby-girl-name-thread/445015/44 "2008-04-13T09:55:31Z")

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[QUOTE=nashiitashii]

I do, however, like Mizumi, Amarina, and Arabella. However, I’m a little confused as to why you’d want your kid’s initials to spell out “ARM.” Go for Mizumi; she’ll be named after purveyors of delicious food. 😉  
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I do not want a particular set of initials. I mentioned the initials to see if anyone thought that was a problem. Does anyone think having the initials A.R.M is no good?

Please tell me who are these purveyors are.

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