I think the name [name]Anne[/name] is very elegant but I don’t think [name]Annie[/name] is elegant, makes me think of little orphan [name]Annie[/name].
[name]Anne[/name] is too grown up for a baby.
What’s the way out? Any nice hyphenated versions of [name]Anne[/name]? [name]Lovely[/name] international variations? [name]Just[/name] accept she’ll be called [name]Annie[/name]?
Thanks!
This name thing is very engrossing but harder than I thought.
[name]Anne[/name] is lovely! It feels spunky to me, so I can see the full name on a little girl (I think of [name]Anne[/name] of [name]Green[/name] Gables). If you correct people who call her [name]Annie[/name], I they’ll probably stop. I think that I’ve said this a few times on Nameberry - maybe I’ve said it too often - but my real name is three syllables - longer than [name]Anne[/name]! - and it feels just as “grown up” for a little girl. People have tried calling”me by a nickname, but they stopped after I corrected them, unless they were trying to annoy me. ”
[name]Ana[/name]”s
[name]Anna[/name]
[name]Annabel[/name] (I think this works best”with [name]Audrey[/name]…)”
[name]Annabella[/name]
Annegret
[name]Anneke[/name]”
[name]Anneliese[/name]
[name]Annika[/name]
[name]Anouk[/name]
[name]Anya[/name] (or [name]Anja[/name])
There are some more here:
These contain “an”, but they aren’t related to [name]Anne[/name]:
[name]Annora[/name]
[name]Antonia[/name]
[name]Arianna[/name]”
[name]Gianna[/name]
[name]Giovanna[/name]
[name]Joanna[/name]
[name]Johanna[/name]
[name]Liliana[/name]
[name]Liliane[/name]
[name]Lillian[/name]
[name]Rosanna[/name]
[name]Roxana[/name]
[name]Roxanne[/name]
[name]Susanna/name
[name]Vivian[/name]
[name]Viviana[/name]
Good luck! :)”
Ooh, [name]Anne[/name] is one of my favorites – I like it more than the more-popular [name]Anna[/name].
I think if you keep correcting people (politely), they’ll learn to call her just [name]Anne[/name] – but I doubt you’ll be able to avoid [name]Anne[/name] entirely, so I would try to accept that it will come up. My suggestion is to call her only [name]Anne[/name] or an unrelated nickname (like firefly, smiley face, boop, etc.), so that if anyone wants to call her something less formal than [name]Anne[/name], they can use her unrelated nickname and will therefore probably be less likely to fall back on [name]Annie[/name].
Combos I like:
[name]Anne[/name] [name]Louise[/name]
[name]Anne[/name] [name]Victoria[/name]
[name]Anne[/name] [name]Emily[/name]
[name]Anne[/name] [name]Juliet[/name]
[name]How[/name] about:
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Marie[/name]
Annelyn (pn annalyn or annlyn)
[name]Annelise[/name] or [name]Anne[/name] [name]Elise[/name] or [name]Anne[/name]-[name]Elise[/name]
[name]Annelie[/name] (pn annlee)
My sister wanted to name her little girl [name]Anne[/name], and actually wanted to call her [name]Annie[/name], but got a lot of negative feedback from people who thought it was like Orphan [name]Annie[/name]. So they chose to name her [name]Annalise[/name], but she almost always gets called [name]Anne[/name] or [name]Annie[/name]. In their case,it works really well. She is a spunky, carefree, beautiful freshman in college now and [name]Annie[/name] SO fits her…but I am sure if they’d insisted on calling her [name]Anne[/name] or [name]Annalise[/name], it could have stuck. My mother in law always made sure to correct people who called her [name]Jacob[/name] [name]Jake[/name] or her [name]Joseph[/name] [name]Joey[/name], and they always go by their full names because she insisted.
I once saw the name [name]Anna[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] and thought that was very attractive. Its off our list so I dont mind passing it on…
[name]Anne[/name] is lovely and elegant! I actually think [name]Annie[/name] is really adorable, and I know a couple of Annes or Annas nn [name]Annie[/name], and it fits them perfectly, whatever age. [name]Nan[/name] is another traditional nn for [name]Anne[/name], but I’m not sure how well it would fit with current trends. Another option could be to use [name]Annabel[/name], [name]Anna[/name], [name]Anastasia[/name], [name]Anneliese[/name], or another [name]Anne[/name] name and use [name]Anne[/name] as a nickname.
Thank you for your thoughtful answers!
2 names that come to mind are [name]Annette[/name] and [name]Antoinette[/name]. I knew two Antoinettes growing up. One went by the nn [name]Nan[/name] (sounds like [name]Non[/name]). The other went by [name]Anne[/name]/[name]Ann[/name] - not sure how she spelled it. I also knew an [name]Annette[/name], but her nn was [name]Ettie[/name]. I think you could pull off [name]Anne[/name] with [name]Annette[/name] though.
Oh… as far as people calling her [name]Annie[/name]. I do want to warn that you can correct people all you want, but when she gets into school, her friends might start calling her [name]Annie[/name], and depending on how she feels about the name, she might dislike it or she might like the “new” name, and let her friends call her that.
My son is [name]Jacob[/name], and everyone is naturally inclined to call him [name]Jake[/name]. I hate it, but no matter what I tell people, they still call him [name]Jake[/name].
thanks. that’s too bad about “[name]Jake[/name]”. maybe he will change schools at some point but it sounds as though this one is out of your hands. I like [name]Jake[/name] though it is v. different from [name]Jacob[/name]. When he is older he might insist on [name]Jacob[/name].
Thank you for the great list!
[name]Anne[/name] can go well with many second names to create a combination-name, not just [name]Marie[/name].
For instance:
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Beatrice[/name]
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Christine[/name]
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Louise[/name]
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Sophia[/name]
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Patricia[/name]
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Gabrielle[/name]
[name]Anne[/name]-[name]Eliza[/name]
I agree that [name]Anne[/name] is gracious, classy, an dignified. I love it too, and also feel that [name]Annie[/name] just takes the class right out of it, and dislike the shorter form [name]Ann[/name], as well.
Be wary that hyphenated forms can sound redneck. Ask me how I know… I had to get rid of the -[name]Anne[/name] and go by just the first part of my name in school, because it sounded so awful… think of [name]Lu[/name]-[name]Anne[/name], [name]Sue[/name]-[name]Ann[/name], [name]Lee[/name]-[name]Anne[/name], [name]Ronald[/name]-[name]Ann[/name] from Doonesbury, and well, it just sounds like a waitress at a truckstop.
If you want to call her [name]Anne[/name] when she’s older, you could call her [name]Baby[/name] [name]Anne[/name] or [name]Little[/name] [name]Anne[/name] while she’s a baby, and avoid having her name permanently shifted to some unrelated nickname.
[name]Anne[/name] is a wonderful name, and I hope you successfully avoid the “Raggedy [name]Ann[/name]” connotation of “[name]Annie[/name]”.
You could also steer people toward [name]Anna[/name], instead of [name]Annie[/name], as a nickname for [name]Anne[/name].
I see nothing wrong with [name]Anne[/name]-[name]Marie[/name] in the long list of possible combinations with [name]Anne[/name] at the start of a hyphenated name.
[name]Anne[/name] at the beginning does prevent the redneck sound of [name]Anne[/name] at the end.
Good luck!
You as the parent dictate what your child is called. My name is [name]Danae[/name], not [name]Dan[/name], or [name]Dani[/name] or Nae. If someone (except my grandma) calls my those, I tell them that if they want my attention they need to use my proper name. Same goes for my sisters [name]Imogen[/name] (people are always trying to call her [name]Jen[/name] or [name]Jenny[/name]), [name]Poppy[/name] (though it is harder).
When we named our girl [name]Frederique[/name], we knew we wanted to call her [name]Fred[/name] but both hated [name]Freddie[/name]. She went to creche and there was a boy [name]Frederick[/name], so our [name]Fred[/name] got [name]Freddie[/name]. And actually, when we saw it in use it grew on us, and occasionally we use it too. So you might feel differently later on (I promise you when it’s your daughter she will [name]WAY[/name] overshadow little orphan [name]Annie[/name] - but hey, I was a big [name]Annie[/name] fan.)
We called our second daughter [name]Una[/name]. From us she gets [name]Una[/name] Balloona, [name]Una[/name] [name]Petunia[/name] (or just [name]Petunia[/name]), [name]Una[/name] the Tuna, Nunu, as well as [name]Pearl[/name] (her middle name). We didn’t know we would use any of these nicknames, they just evolved.
I do love [name]Anouk[/name]. And [name]Nanette[/name]. And the Welsh [name]Anwen[/name].