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Ottilie shortened to Tilly.....feedback please?

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K8ster · 17/05/2012 08:53

I like the name Tilly and was thinking Matilda but recently came across Ottilie, now I am confused!

Please let me know your thoughts.

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ShowOfHands · 17/05/2012 10:43

I have a Mathilda and I love the name Ottilie. I really dislike Tilly though, it's twee and girly and popular. But that's just personal preference.

sparkle12mar08 · 17/05/2012 10:38

I know an Ottilie who is known as exactly that. It's classy and classic and she's a lovely child. Few names are actually 'difficult to carry' in my experience, it all comes doan to the confidence of the parents, and the confidence they imbue their children with.

FrankWippery · 17/05/2012 10:35

A friend of mine has an Ottilie. She has never been known as anything but Tilly (now almost 16). I think it's a lovely name.

PacketOfBiscuits · 17/05/2012 10:33

I don't like Ottilie/Tilly/Matilda but they're all perfectly good names/nicknames.

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K8ster · 17/05/2012 09:11

Lesstalkmoreaction.....I understand your point, my name is the same....I go by the shortened version but it has never really been a huge issue.

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FetchezLaVache · 17/05/2012 09:11

I really like Ottilie, Tilly AND Matilda .

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K8ster · 17/05/2012 09:10

Yes Ottoline....am not so keen on either.
There is Tilda or Natalie for Tilly I suppose but am not too sure about those. Any other suggestions?.....am thinking that Ottilie is my favorite at the moment.

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redrubyshoes · 17/05/2012 09:01

I have heard of a Myrtle nicknamed Tilly though.

lesstalkmoreaction · 17/05/2012 09:01

If you like Tilly then go with that, I've got a child with a nickname and she wants to change her name by deedpoll as at school it has driven her nuts as legally everything has to have her proper name on as opposed to her nickname, so she has to remember to write Elizabeth on exams etc instead of Lizzie and we have never called her Elizabeth, I wish I had put Lizzie on the birth certificate.

BillyBollyBandy · 17/05/2012 09:01

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I really like Ottilie, pretty and unusual. Do not like Ottoline from the article though

redrubyshoes · 17/05/2012 09:01

Ottilie Botterlie.

'Nuff said.

ripsishere · 17/05/2012 08:59

Oooh, it's a lovely name. DD had a friend called Ottoline. She was a delightful little girl.
I think you tend to associate names with people. I don't like Mathilda because a friend has a 15 YO who is a royal PITA.

redemptionsong · 17/05/2012 08:56

Love Tilly :) not so keen on Matilda tho, never heard Ottilie but it is nice, a little different but not too off the wall.

BobbiFleckman · 17/05/2012 08:54

have a google for the newspaper article by (i think) Lucy Cavendish saying how much she regretted calling her daughter Ottiline / ottilie. It's a hard name to wear.