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Help[Opinions] Re: Betsey/Betsy (EDITED)
in reply to a message by Ew_Chloe
I don't really have any strong associations with it. Definitely go with Betsy. Betsey is like Katey or something, I just don't care for it. To be honest, I've never liked this name. I also wouldn't want to have it as a full name. Elizabeth is much nicer. It does have a retro feel and maybe it could make a comeback along with Shirley, Mary Ellen, Lorraine, Carolyn and the like but unlike all of these it is a nickname name so I'm not sure. I think nickname names were last excessively common in the late 60s/early 70s (Carrie, Tammy, Debbie) so it might take another 40-50 years for them to become stylish again, if ever at all.
If you live in the UK things might be different, I do think it could have a huge comeback there in a few years, but in the UK people are really into nickname names currently. Many that haven't become popular in the US at all are common there such as Alfie, Evie (I think this was even a top ten name), Rosie and lately Frankie. So there it might be really hip!
The only ones that even became somewhat common in recent years for girls in the US are Ellie (only cutesy nickname name in the top 50 and it's ranked #40-something, so not particularly high) and Sadie and I think that has more to do with the Ella/Eleanor/Eliana trend and a celebrity than with nickname names. Gracie had a short popularity surge (but I think that this was again not due to a nickname name trend but because it's close to common Grace and a little girl on a famous TV show was called this during the time it got common) but it seems unfashionable now and it only barely entered the top 100 for three years or so.
I don't mind Elizabeth as a full name. Liz and Lizzie would be my favorite nicknames for Elizabeth. I dislike nicknames that are established as full names (usually) so I am not counting names like Ella and Lily (I love Lily and would use it as a full name) as possible nickname options for Elizabeth, so my favorites simply as nicknames for it would be Liz and Lizzie. I think they have an aura of old Hollywood glamour to them (think Elizabeth Montgomery and Elizabeth Taylor who both went by Liz).
If you live in the UK things might be different, I do think it could have a huge comeback there in a few years, but in the UK people are really into nickname names currently. Many that haven't become popular in the US at all are common there such as Alfie, Evie (I think this was even a top ten name), Rosie and lately Frankie. So there it might be really hip!
The only ones that even became somewhat common in recent years for girls in the US are Ellie (only cutesy nickname name in the top 50 and it's ranked #40-something, so not particularly high) and Sadie and I think that has more to do with the Ella/Eleanor/Eliana trend and a celebrity than with nickname names. Gracie had a short popularity surge (but I think that this was again not due to a nickname name trend but because it's close to common Grace and a little girl on a famous TV show was called this during the time it got common) but it seems unfashionable now and it only barely entered the top 100 for three years or so.
I don't mind Elizabeth as a full name. Liz and Lizzie would be my favorite nicknames for Elizabeth. I dislike nicknames that are established as full names (usually) so I am not counting names like Ella and Lily (I love Lily and would use it as a full name) as possible nickname options for Elizabeth, so my favorites simply as nicknames for it would be Liz and Lizzie. I think they have an aura of old Hollywood glamour to them (think Elizabeth Montgomery and Elizabeth Taylor who both went by Liz).
This message was edited 2/10/2017, 5:58 PM
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