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My grandmother's mn was Beatrice, and my mother's one and only name was Beatrice. She liked the full form, but nobody ever seemed to use it: she preferred Bea, but was often called Beattie, which she disliked.

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We named our daughter after her - after both of them really - but if she'd been alive I don't think she'd have encouraged us to do it. Our daughter likes her name, but also always goes by Bea; I'm the only one who calls her Beatrice, partly because that's what mothers do but also because I associate Bea with my mother.

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The only problem my daughter has ever had with her name is that people often mishear it or assume that it's 'really' Beatrix! And that's easily sorted out.