My feed
Premium
Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

Opinions on the name Mattie for a girl

53 replies

expecting543 · 09/07/2016 18:41

Hi Smile looking for opinions on the name Mattie for a girl, possibly Matilda on BC.

OP posts:
Report
DramaAlpaca · 09/07/2016 18:42

I think Mattie is a very cute shortening of Matilda.

Report
weebarra · 09/07/2016 18:42

Reminds me of Cranford!

Report
longdiling · 09/07/2016 18:43

I love it. My dd has a friend with that name and she's lovely so it has very good connotations for me!

Report
gettingtherequickly · 09/07/2016 18:43

Lovely as a NN

Report
Woodenmouse · 09/07/2016 18:43

I love it!!

Report
DotForShort · 09/07/2016 18:44

Very cute as a nickname. Matilda is one of my favourite names of all time.

Report
Artandco · 09/07/2016 18:44

I know a 7 year old Mattina who goes by Mattie sometimes

Report
user7755 · 09/07/2016 18:45

Love it

Report
Ladybirdturd · 09/07/2016 18:45

I love it.

Report
Raaaaaah · 09/07/2016 18:46

Love, love, love. I really wanted to use Matilda with the nn of Mattie.

Report
Idiotxit · 09/07/2016 18:46

Love it as a short name of Matilda.

Report
KoalaDownUnder · 09/07/2016 18:48

All the Matildas I know are shortened to Tilly.

Mattie is way cuter!

Report
expecting543 · 09/07/2016 18:49

Yay! Thank you Smile

OP posts:
Report
AndNowItsSeven · 09/07/2016 18:52

I don't like it, it sounds too masculine, I prefer Tilda.

Report
detectiv · 09/07/2016 18:53

I don't like the sound of it - prefer Tilda

Report
buckingfrolicks · 09/07/2016 18:53

fab name. Fab

Report
RainbowDashian · 09/07/2016 18:54

I really like it! Lovely name.

Report
mumoseven · 09/07/2016 18:55

My nan was Martha, but known as Mat or Mattie

Report
BennyTheBall · 09/07/2016 18:55

Love it (loathe Tilda).

Report
Tanith · 09/07/2016 18:56

It's actually an old-fashioned abbreviation. I think one of the girls in The Crown of Success by A.L.O.E. (A Lady Of England) was called Matty.

Report
stabbybitch · 09/07/2016 18:56

I absolutely love it. I don't think it needs a longer full name either.

Report
limon · 09/07/2016 18:57

Matilda is a great name - shortened to tilly or mally. I don't like mattie as it's a surname.

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

Salzundessig · 09/07/2016 18:57

My daughter is a Matilda and I like the nn mattie. I also like (and use) Tilda. My dh uses Tilly Vanilli Grin

Report
HelloDoris · 09/07/2016 18:58

DD2 best friend at pre-school is called Mattea or Mattie.. I love it Smile

Report
Birdsgottafly · 09/07/2016 19:07

I love the name Matilda, I like Tilly and Tilda, as NNs.

I grew up in a disadvantaged part of Liverpool, with a lot of big, poor families. Everyone of them (I was an only child), seemed to have a very scruffy child called Mattie, short for Mathew. He always did have matty, tatty hair. Paddy always seemed to be further up the pecking order.

So it's got childhood connotations, for me.

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.