Thoughts on Libby as a nickname for Elizabeth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Zabby?

Truly awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baby #3 will be named Elizabeth. I’ve always loved Libby as a nickname, and DH is on board. Curious to get some outside feedback too. I’ve heard some people that really hate this nickname over the years.

Libby sounds like a liberal, feminist or lesbian. Could be good or not so good, depending on your politics.

[Anonymous]

Libby sounds fat and like she has a lisp. Libby has stringy hair that's never brushed and always has a runny nose. Eliza or Liza are MUCH cooler nicknames.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much better than Beth

Hey! I’m a Beth. I had a best friend in 7th grade named Libby.

[Anonymous]

Libby is lovely! It’s unique without being wildly crazy, and it’s also very classy/classic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Libby sounds fat and like she has a lisp. Libby has stringy hair that's never brushed and always has a runny nose. Eliza or Liza are MUCH cooler nicknames.

Liza is super cute. I prefer that to Libby.

[Anonymous]

I really like Libby.

I'll just say that sometimes nickname plans don't work out. I have seen a lot of babies just end up going by their given name. Elizabeth is great. My advice in general, is to make sure you love the given name just as much as the planned nickname, and that you don't detest any of the (common) nickname variants.

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Brings back memories:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Libby sounds fat and like she has a lisp. Libby has stringy hair that's never brushed and always has a runny nose. Eliza or Liza are MUCH cooler nicknames.

Eliza is a bookworm who wears little house on the prairie dresses and has a sister wives hairstyle, and Liza is a goth girl who claims to be bi but she’s really just slutty.

Libby could be a professor, an artist, or the SAHM with the perfect house. Ditto for Liz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Libby sounds fat and like she has a lisp. Libby has stringy hair that's never brushed and always has a runny nose. Eliza or Liza are MUCH cooler nicknames.

Eliza is a bookworm who wears little house on the prairie dresses and has a sister wives hairstyle, and Liza is a goth girl who claims to be bi but she’s really just slutty.

Libby could be a professor, an artist, or the SAHM with the perfect house. Ditto for Liz.

All millennials should know Libby as the snobby head cheerleader!

Not a knock on the name, I actually love it. But that’s immediately who I think of.

[Anonymous]

Four pages and not one person remembers Queen Elizabeth’s nickname: Lilibet, which is much better than Libby (sorry, connection to peas won’t go away). And there’s also Lizbeth, which is much more dignified. You don’t want to send a “Libby” to law or medical school. Giver her a nickname that can be better used as an adult

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious why don't people like Beth?

I suspect it's because we all had some negative experience with a mean girl named Beth sometime around 1985. Just me?

No, I suspect most of us in the expectant forum were not in grade school in 1985…?

[Anonymous]

My best friend has a Libby. I don’t love the name but it has grown on me because of this kid.

I love Beth, it’s my middle name (without the Eliza) and I’m from the South so half the people in my like use my first and middle names for me. I’m both Larla and Larla Beth and I don’t care which people use.

[Anonymous]

I love Libby. It has good memories attached for me. Also love Bizzie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four pages and not one person remembers Queen Elizabeth’s nickname: Lilibet, which is much better than Libby (sorry, connection to peas won’t go away). And there’s also Lizbeth, which is much more dignified. You don’t want to send a “Libby” to law or medical school. Giver her a nickname that can be better used as an adult

I know a lawyer called Libby. She’s very smart and professional. If you’re good at what you do, your name won’t hold you back (at least, so long as it isn’t “ethnic,” since there is proven negative bias re that sort of name).