Betsy

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

My husband and I were talking yesterday and we realized that we both really want to use the name Betsy somehow if we ever have a daughter/daughters, to honor our two favorite aunts who are both named Betsy.
The problem is that we've had a first and middle name combination picked out for a girl for a very long time, and we're both pretty attached to it (Zia Violet is the name).
It's important to us that we pass on the name "Betsy", but it's also important to us that we like the sound of the names we give our children... so we're kind of stuck.  We're trying to come up with a different first name that works with Betsy as a middle name.  We've basically decided that in the event that we have two daughters, we'll pass on "Betsy" to the second daughter.

So my question to you all is...
What are some first names that sound good with "Betsy" as a middle name?
We like names that are somewhat unique... We don't want our children to share their first names with a ton of other children in their classes at school, basically.  We are also geared towards biblical names (the boys' names we both like are Caleb [middle name Theodore-Charles], Gideon [middle name James], and Jude [middle name Kenneth] and our first boy will be named Caleb Theodore-Charles no matter what, if that helps).

ETA: We can't use the name Elizabeth.  Aside from the fact that we both just don't like it, my husband has a nasty ex-girlfriend by that name!

Comments

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

What about using the name Elizabeth, for which Betsy is a common nickname?

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

PS: actually, now that I think of it...

Elizabeth Violet, nn Zia?

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

We talked about using a longer name that could have Betsy as a nickname, but if we were to do that, we would use Bethany. My husband has an ex-girlfriend named Elizabeth and they had a nasty breakup, so we could never use that name. :P And both of our Aunt Betsy's are just Betsy - it's not short for anything.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

er... pretend that apostrophe on "Aunt Betsys" isn't there. :P yuck.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

i think elizabeth is a great option... you could call her either zia or betsy, or both.

[thellamaqueen.livejournal.com]

It's great in theory, but we have personal reasons for not using Elizabeth. :\

[stillbefree.livejournal.com]

Betsy Anne
Betsy Margaret
Betsy Kathleen
Betsy Michelle
Betsy Ophelia

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Although I don't like it, I think that Seraphina is considered a Biblical name (from 'seraphim'), and it's definitely unique. Betsy Seraphina or Seraphina Betsy sounds okay to me.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

What about two middle names? Like, Zia Violet Betsy.
All the names my husband and I have picked out have two middle names for the same reason.

For names that sound like Betsy, I really like the name Etta. I can see Etsy being a nickname for Etta (or even Etsy being a nickname for Esme), so why not Betsy?

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

First off - I love Zia Violet.

What about Beatrice or Beatrix nn Besty?

Morgan Betsy
Melissa Betsy
Miriam Betsy
Lavinia Betsy
Karis Betsy

Wow - this one is hard to pair!

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

biblical females
abigail
adina pronounced ad-yee-nuh
ariel
chloe
deborah
dinah
eden
esther
hannah
leah
lydia
magdalena
miriam
moriah
naomi
phoebe
rebecca
salome
tabitha
tirzah
tzipporah

I love biblical names, my first son's mn is malachy (the irish variant of malichi) my second sons' name is judah. we are having a daughter this time around but my next boy will most likely be gideon because I adore gideons story and failings and how patient God is in it.