Need a name that is a form of Nellie or Edna?

Question

I would like to name my baby after one of the grandmothers - Edna Irene or Nellie. The names as they are don't work. I'm not really fond of the names Edna or Irene, and Nellie is too nick-namish to work. I am looking for a middle name, and the baby's first name will end with an "a", so I'd like the middle name to start and end with a hard sound, rather than a vowel. Do you have any suggestions of other forms of any of these names?

Answer 1

anna, marianna, maria, or shayna

Answer 2

Edan/Eden for Edna

Natalie for Nellie

Iris for Irene

Answer 3

Nellie is short for Eleanor. But there's other short forms, like Elle or Ellie or Nell.

Answer 4

Jeremy

Answer 5

first names            

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Shayna****

Elena

Tara

Gina

Clara

Rebecca

Carla

Tina

Cora

Bella

Emma

Lisa

Maria

Sara

Lena

Kayla

Samantha

Kyra (Kye/rah)

Kira (Kee/rah)

Erica

Cana

Brianna

Mya

Ava

Julia

middle names

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Amber

Elizabeth

Layne

Jane

Lynn

Raechel

Amy

Beth

Madison

Hope

Violet

Jean

Susan

Marie

Answer 6

It would be easier if you told the first name. It's too hard to tell from your description.

Eden is close to Edna, Eileen similar to Irene, but you don't want anything that starts or ends with a vowel.  That doesn't leave much, if anything that is similar. I don't know... Nellie Rose,  Melanie, Helen, Kelly? I say forget the grannies and just go with another name.

Answer 7

Neled.

Ednell.