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Sister for Ottilie

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PassthePercyPigs · 17/02/2014 20:20

Evening all,
DC2 is due next week and I'm still not sold on a girl's name. We have had Tabitha, Alice and Polly all in the mix but none of them seem quite 'right' with my daughter's name. I've also learned that I can't use the name Tabitha for family reasons... Help me ladies!
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PassthePercyPigs · 19/02/2014 08:32

*sorry for the typos!

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PassthePercyPigs · 19/02/2014 08:30

Hi Dilys, we do get some unusual spellings (Otterly, Otily etc) but I have a very popular name and sometimes I still have to spell it! We've found that most people love it (or at least claim to!) and it's unusual without being to 'out there'. I lovely ut and have never regretted it for a moment. i think it would be lovely with your boys names.

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MrsSchadenfreude · 19/02/2014 00:21

Dilys, yes, no-one can spell it. We always get "Otterly".

Figster · 18/02/2014 22:49

Alice is my fave name ATM go for it!!!

SimplySara · 18/02/2014 22:46

Sylvie

dilys4trevor · 18/02/2014 20:28

In fact, I am pregnant with DC3 and it has just shot to the top of my list.

Do you ever have people struggle with it? Spelling/pronounciation?

My two boys are John and Albert and if we have a girl, I'd like to maybe go a bit more unusual and I do remember now meeting an Ottilie last year and thinking it was gorgeous. I'd forgotten about it.

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PassthePercyPigs · 18/02/2014 20:06

Thank you dilys4trevor

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dilys4trevor · 18/02/2014 19:46

Ottilie is lovely. Good choice on DD1 and 2

Sweetishdelight · 18/02/2014 19:43

Sorry, typo - Ottilie

Sweetishdelight · 18/02/2014 19:42

I had a friend calls Ottilid. She is German. Hers sisters are Brigitte and Renate. Too Teutonic for you?

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PassthePercyPigs · 18/02/2014 19:40

So many lovely suggestions here ladies, thank you. I'm sold on Alice again now - thank you for helping me to make up my mind! X

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QueenQueenie · 17/02/2014 23:29

or Alicia?

LoreleisSecret · 17/02/2014 23:26

Francesca

cece · 17/02/2014 23:24

Verity

LargeBustedMamma · 17/02/2014 23:21

Emily
Eliza
Inari
Clementine
Theodora

But Alice is gorgeous!

DoALittleDance · 17/02/2014 22:42

Frances
Antonia
Lucinda
Cosima
Cressida
Helena
Eleanor
Harriet
Winifred Smile

QueenQueenie · 17/02/2014 22:33

Ottilie and Blythe is fab!

Or...
Pearl
Queenie
Cora
Coralie
Coral
Iris
Nora
Thora
Vera
Vita
Gwendoline

elvisola · 17/02/2014 22:24

Ottille and Tallulah

NoArmaniNoPunani · 17/02/2014 22:03

I love Ottilie, my next favourite name is Marina

HoneyandRum · 17/02/2014 22:02

Raphaela

MrsSchadenfreude · 17/02/2014 22:01

Alice is lovely. If you want to keep up the German theme, how about Elsa, Frieda or Minna? Johanna?

LynetteScavo · 17/02/2014 21:37

Celeste

Or

AliceGrin

hoboken · 17/02/2014 21:37

Cecile
Delia
Dolores
Claudette
Loretta
Germaine
Geraldine
Freya
Hannelore
Fenella

hollyisalovelyname · 17/02/2014 21:37

Clemency
Eloise
Romy
How do you pronounce Otillie?

weirdthing · 17/02/2014 21:34

Blythe