Baby Names
rare tradition in the man's family
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My husband has a pretty weird tradition in his family.............
As a sign that they are very close (Believe me, they aren't that close anymore), but my husband really wants to continue this tradition.
Every girl in the family has to take a name from a list that was made somewhere in the 1800s.
The names on it were: Maria, Anna, Catharina, Elisabeth, Grietje, Trijntje, Cornelia, Janna, Helena and Antje.
Now I don't see a single name among these that I think is beautiful. I told my husband that.
He said you could also use, for example: Catharina as the official name and Cathie as the nickname.
Thankfully haha what a relief because I immediately started stressing.
But now I had to see if there were any cute abbreviations/nicknames, so far I found them all completely unappealing.
Maria - Marja, Marie, Marieke
Catharina - Cathie, Rina, Catja
Elisabeth - Elisa, Lisa, Lizzie, Bette, Betty
And I didn't get any further (I'm far from creative)
Your help is desperately needed, do you have any options please??
As a sign that they are very close (Believe me, they aren't that close anymore), but my husband really wants to continue this tradition.
Every girl in the family has to take a name from a list that was made somewhere in the 1800s.
The names on it were: Maria, Anna, Catharina, Elisabeth, Grietje, Trijntje, Cornelia, Janna, Helena and Antje.
Now I don't see a single name among these that I think is beautiful. I told my husband that.
He said you could also use, for example: Catharina as the official name and Cathie as the nickname.
Thankfully haha what a relief because I immediately started stressing.
But now I had to see if there were any cute abbreviations/nicknames, so far I found them all completely unappealing.
Maria - Marja, Marie, Marieke
Catharina - Cathie, Rina, Catja
Elisabeth - Elisa, Lisa, Lizzie, Bette, Betty
And I didn't get any further (I'm far from creative)
Your help is desperately needed, do you have any options please??
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Debby Guest #2
Neela - Cornelia
Ela, Elena or Lena - Helena
Maya or Mia - Maria
Kate - Catharina
Ela, Elisa, Elise - Elisabeth -
Anonymous Guest #3
Many people use these names as baptismal names and then have a derivative as a nickname. I was also planning that for my little one. Here are maybe some other options:
Catharina: Karin, Carina, Katja, Catelyn/Cathelijne (with k or c doesn't really matter in that regard)
Elisabeth: Lisa, Lisbeth, Liesbeth, Lies, Elsa, Elly, Bep :-), Ella, Betty, Beth, Els, Elsbeth, Isa, Ellis
Maria: Marian (female) -
Anouk Guest #4
They aren't all equally clear derivations of the names, but I hope you find this useful:
Maria - Maartje , Mara , Mare , Maribel , Marije , Marin , Marion , Marisa , Marise , Marit , Marley , Marlies , Mary , Mea , Mia , Rhea
Anna - Anastasia , Annabel (Or stick something else after Anne/Anna: Annemijn etc)
Catharina - Carin , Catalina , Cathelijne , Cato , Catrijn , Hanna , Ina , Kaat , Karianne , Kate , Kathleen , Katja , Nienke , Nina , Nine , Nynke , Tina , Tine
Elisabeth - Bella , Beth [font="Open Sans -
Emily Guest #5
There's definitely something to work with here! These are my favorite options:
Maria - Mara, Maren
Anna - Anna, Anne, Sanne, Annelie, Annemae, Anna-Sophia
Catharina - Cato, Kate
Elizabeth - Elise, Lisa, Lizzy, Izabel, Liz, Lize
Grietje - Grace
Trijntje - Tina
Cornelia - Celia, Neeltje, Amélia
Janna - Jana, Janniek, Hannah, Jenna, Sanna
Helena - Lena, Elena, Ela
Antje - see Anna
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