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Do you like Ottilie?

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Marmaladedandelions · 06/04/2015 21:06

For DD due in the summer?

I'm really struggling with names and just can't decide - go from one to the other. I don't know any other Ottilie's but at the same time it isn't vastly unusual, I don't think.

If you don't like it, feel free to make other suggestions!

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Penguinotterfoxbadger · 07/04/2015 07:55

It's too posh for my taste but it is very pretty, and Tilly is a cute nn.

Flora is a wonderful name.

Sophronia · 06/04/2015 22:15

I don't like Ottilie at all, it reminds me of otters and utterly butterly, I do like Mabel and Rosamund though.

Allthatnonsense · 06/04/2015 22:04

Cordelia? Very pretty and formal and could be Cora, Cordy or Delia.

afghanda · 06/04/2015 21:57

Oh, goodness - if you have a daughter called Flora (lovely, BTW), don't use Ottilie - I'm not keen on the name Ottilie, mainly because it makes me think of Utterly Butterly - the margarine comments will be doubled.

HilarysMantelpiece · 06/04/2015 21:56

DN is an Ottilie...her mother tries to call her Tilly, but as her toddler older brother initially mispronounced it as Lily, that has become her nickname.
Love it.

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Marmaladedandelions · 06/04/2015 21:48

It's so nice to see positive comments about Flora. I get a lot of 'margarine' comments.

I have started saying 'Flora, like the Roman goddess of spring!'

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woolshortage · 06/04/2015 21:46

I love the name Ottilie. It's very pretty without being incredibly posh. I think it goes very with your other children's names, in fact I think we have similar taste in names as I loved Flora and my DD has one of the other names you suggested!

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Marmaladedandelions · 06/04/2015 21:46

I'm not sure about Ottoline; not sure why. I think I like the 'tilly' sound with Ottilie.

I do love Willow but it just doesn't go with our surname at all. I've decided to use my mums name as a middle name as DD1 has my husbands mums name as her middle name and that goes reasonably well with Ottilie as well, I think.

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lemonyone · 06/04/2015 21:44

Love Elodie too - but it's v common in the area i used to live in in England (South West)

Pavlova31 · 06/04/2015 21:44

How about the Dutch name Ottoline ?

sosix · 06/04/2015 21:44

Gorgeus, i would consider it but no
More babies here!

lemonyone · 06/04/2015 21:44

I live in a French area and it's not common here, but it's not unknown. It's written Cléodie. I've seen it in a couple of birth announcements in England though.
I do like Ottilie and like Tilly as a shortening. It would go well with your other DDs.

MadameJosephine · 06/04/2015 21:43

Love it. I also love Elodie which is similar in style

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Izzy24 · 06/04/2015 21:39

Absolutely love it.

nikki1978 · 06/04/2015 21:36

I know someone who has a dd with that name. She lives in France though - I presume it is a french name? I think it's very pretty :)

fourteen · 06/04/2015 21:36

Ottilie Butterly

BlacknWhitePanda · 06/04/2015 21:34

Reading it I thought of crocodiles.. I'm not much of a fan.

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Marmaladedandelions · 06/04/2015 21:34

I haven't heard Cleodie before.

DH 'helped' name the other two, is probably why. I was keen on Wilfred for DS (after Wilfred Owen) but was vetoed.

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lemonyone · 06/04/2015 21:31

Skye and Summer are pretty opposite to your other DCs names. Not that they need to match i guess.

I like Ottilie.
I also like Octavia and Mariana, and like the suggestion of Martha a lot.
What about Cleodie. It's would have been the name of my 3rd DD if I'd decided do go for no. 3.

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Marmaladedandelions · 06/04/2015 21:29

:) I do have horses, although they are three muddy ponies so not very posh

Olive, we must have similar tastes in names! I love Flora and it really suits her. Toyed with April as she was born this month but was swayed to Flora in the end.

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OlivesTree · 06/04/2015 21:27

I love Mabel.

OlivesTree · 06/04/2015 21:27

If DS2 was a girl he would have been Ottilie. I loved it when I was pregnant, but turned out he was a boy and now I am a little bit glad I don't have an Ottilie as it just feels a bit.... I don't even know what.. pretentious maybe? Still really like the name but I think I would have felt a bit silly introducing my child as that name. If you like it and are comfortable with it you should do it though, it is lovely.
Btw, my DD1 is Flora too!

KeturahLee · 06/04/2015 21:26

Skye and Summer seem more young, trendy, hippyish whereas Ottilie is old fashioned, horsey, posh.

MrsLettuce · 06/04/2015 21:23

(I also vetoed several of his names which would have been odd to the English speaking ear BTW. Was fair )

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