We seem to be channelling each other! For days now, I've been thinking of a sibset of
Dinah,
Maeve and
Ruth.
So, that leaves
Bethany to be commented on. I don't like it: biblical and geographical. I know someone who married a
Bethany: her father was a church minister and that influenced their choice. She's never liked it much, finds it long and inconvenient, and mostly goes by
Bee. I prefer
Bethan, and if that's confusingly close to
Bethany then Betsan is also Welsh and also very lovely. That said, I do prefer
Betsy to
Betty and
Beth.