Comments for the name Bess

Bess Marvin is a character in the Nancy Drew series.

Queen Elizabeth I of England was sometimes called "Good Queen Bess."

Bess is the name of the landlord's daughter in the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes (1906).

A famous bearer is First Lady Bess Truman.

Bess is a good nickname for Elizabeth, although it sounds more like something you would name your dog.

I find Bess incredibly darling and completely human. ;]

My parents picked this name for me out of a book. As a kid I hated it. I like it now, in my 30's. I was teased in school as "Bessie the cow" even though I wasn't fat. I like having a short name that is easy to spell. A lot of people hear Beth, no matter how much I pronounce the ss at the end.

This is my favourite Elizabeth diminutive, closely followed by Betty.

In the movie 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age' Abbie Cornish plays Queen Elizabeth's friend, also named Elizabeth with the nickname of Bess.

Bess is the name of the heroine in the book "The Highwayman's Footstep's" by Nicola Morgan, based on the poem "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.

I think Bess has a lot of potential for from old-world memories and charm into some modern-world soil, so to speak. Betty is quite darling as well (which is also what my Grandmother goes by to friends).

I'm an Elizabeth who has used different diminutives at different stages of my life - I was "Libby" as a little girl, "Ellie" in high school and "Eliza" in college. My husband started calling me "Beth", which I've been for the last twenty years. I'm planning on using "Bess" when I get to the grandma stage - it seems like a good grandma name.