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I like Essie. It seems insubstantial as a given name, but I think it would be nice as a NN.

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Could be short for:
Elizabeth/Elisabeth
Elsa
Estelle
Estella
Esther
Esmeralda
Esperanza
Estrella
Nessa
Alessa
Alessandra
Esmee
Hester
Hestia
Odessa

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I really like Nella.

Esmeralda
Elisabeth
Esther
Vanessa
Clarissa (maybe...that's a stretch, I guess)
Estelle
Esme
Elspeth

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Aslan. It's a real name and I know that, but the Narnia connection is too strong for me.

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Nella is cool, but a little incomplete.

Essie would be such a sweet nickname. I like it! The options for full names are endless:
Agnes
Agnessa
Alessa
Alessandra - love this
Celeste
Cressida
Delores
Desiree
Desta
Destiny
Ernesta
Esme
Estella
Esther
Frances
Francesca
Genesis
Hester
Jamesina - how awesome would that be?
Janessa
Jessa
Jessica
Jessalyn
Jessamine
Lesley
Nessa
Odessa
Presley
Princess
Silvestra
Tempest
Tesni
Tessa
Vanessa

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All the -ella's are just too cutesy for me. So I'm not a fan of Nella

Essis is a common nickname for several fuller names, like:

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Estelle
Esmeralda
Esther
Celeste
Vanessa
Teresa
Cressida
Elspeth
Hester
Hesper
Estera
Agnes
Francesca
Estefania
Elizabeth
Esme
etc....

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Nella is a bit too Nutella for me... but, I love Nelle!
(though, Nella would be decent for someone with a longer name like Antonella.)

edited to add about Nella

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Essie falls into a category I'd describe, for lack of a better term, Slave Names. Essie, Hattie, Jemima, Mamie, Moses/Mose, Amos, that kind of thing.

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Essie could be short for any name with the ess sound, especially a name a little kid couldn't pronounce and ended up with Essie.
Or Estelle, Esther, Essence, Elizabeth?

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Nella makes me think of vanilla wafers.

This message was edited 12/1/2014, 7:38 AM

I've known Essie used as a nn for Esther, and Hessie for Hester. Estelle might also work.

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I'd rather have a husband named Leo than Aslan.

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Nella is very trite and middle-aged where I live. It's a nn for Petronella or Pieternella (which I've only seen once), both widely used as fem forms of Peter, Petrus, Pieter. I quite like it, apart from its wrinkly image.

There is an Australian actress called Essie Davis, her full name is Esther. Aslan is such a cool name! Nella is alright, though I don't love it.

I like Essie a lot. There's an actor called Essie Davis, but I don't actually know her full name. I think she keeps a lot of things private. Maybe Essie is her full name, though.

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Esther
Estella
Stella
Estelle
Tess
Tessa
(Theresa?)
Celeste
Celestine
Celestina
Cecily
Esme
Esmeralda
Alessandra
Alessia
(Alexandra, Alexia, Alexis too, I guess)
Francesca
Frances
Agnes
Vanessa
Jessica
Odessa

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You could potentially use any name with an S sound and a short E sound, whether or not they're next to each other or in the "ess" order. For example, Josephine and Stella.

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Aslan is a very cool name, but it completely makes me think of Narnia.
I just clicked on the link and I never knew it actually meant 'lion'! Good job, C.S. Lewis.

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I don't really like Nella. I much, much prefer Nell or Ella.

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Estee is a nickname for Ester, so Essie could also be a nickname for Ester.

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Also:

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Esmeralda
Esperanza
Essence
Estefania
Estelle / Estella
Estrella
Escarlata
Esclarmonde
Esmée / Esmé
Esmeray
Esmerée

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And I guess anything with a heavy -es- sound in it, Alessandra, Cressida, Jessamine, etc.

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I'm always interested to hear Nella but it's not something I like enough to use.