Please help...changing DD name

Both lovely names. It's not easy to make decisions when your emotions are running high after giving birth. Don't be concerned about what others think or say, many grandparents take a little time to get used to a name they are not familiar with and then find they love it. Go with your heart and what feels right when you look at your little girl.

I like both but prefer Ottilie. I agree that bryony is not as "pretty".

I prefer Bryony to Ottilie , but both names are becoming more popular. They are hardly eyebrow raising.
Give yourself longer to think about it if you want to.

Imogen and Bryony are lovely! Not so keen on ottilie and it’s very popular right now but you have to choose what you like the best and ignore others, I’m surprised your family had never heard of an ottilie though!

I absolutely love Ottilie. If I had another DD it would be my next name. A couple of mine have been mentioned in this thread already.
We got a similar reaction with DD2's name OP, but everyone loves it now and a few more have appeared.
I'm not keen on Bryony, I think the spelling will always be queried too.
You go with what YOU and DH want though. My dad was the biggest complainer of our 'weird' name, but loved it within weeks and said he couldn't imagine her called anything else.

rubyred my sister is called Imogen and when she was born (she’s 28) my nan constantly purposely pronounced the name wrongly, spelled it wrongly and generally made out that it was the most outrageous and unusual name ever known to man.

She is now one of the older Imogen’s around and people constantly compliment her on her name still.

My point being that people get used to names and names do get more popular and well known as time goes by. Don’t worry about your family not being immediately enamoured by it, names become intrinsinctly linked to a person (think of the people you hate that means their names are off the table!) so they will love her they will love the name

Bryony is beautiful and very uncommon now. Ottilie is also pretty but I know what your mum means about being a wee bit pretentious and I think the possibility of them being "immy" and "tilly" a bit twee. But this is your baby and go with the name you are happiest with.

Not so keen on Bryony - and def coudl get shortened to Bry - for some reason it sounds a bit like briny

Otililie is pretty but a bit garbled - I think Phoebe goes best with Imogen although really like Freya
try them all for a bit you have time,

I think Imogen and Bryony go lovely together. Also like Imogen and phoebe. Otillie is pretentious sounding. Sounds like utterly as well. I hate the name but she's not my baby so do what you want to do regarding the name and ignore others

Love LOVE Phoebe!!

I have never heard the name Ottillie outside of this website, and I think there's a good reason for that. Stick with Bryony.

Bryony is so beautiful - pretty and classic. Ottillie sounds a bit try-hard to me.

Go with your heart.
Nobody in my family liked my sons name, it was the only one his dad and I agreed on and now it’s just who he is, they’ll get used to it and ottilie is lovely, I’m not keen on bryony but that’s just my preference

Bryony and Imogen go really well together OP.

If you do change it that shoulb be 100% your decision not based on anyone elses reaction. What if they don't like Ottillie either?! And they haven't even said they don't like it!

I wasn't taken with my nieces name but its her name now and i can't imagine her being called anything else

Both Bryony and Ottilie are pretty names. Don't worry about what anyone else thinks. Pick whichever you want but stick with it. If you keep changing, people will assume they can keep commenting.

You have to feel happy with it, I don't think Imogen is particularly 'pretty' although you do.

I posted on your other post, I'd never heard of Ottilie and I think your daughter would need to spell it a lot. I have to spell my name a lot (and my surname now I'm married even more so) and as a result we went for names where that wouldn't be the case; although post fact realised that there was an alternative spelling of the name we'd picked. You'll have it with Bryony as well as you can spell that with an i instead of a y.

FWIW my daughter's name is different to what we call her day to day. She responds to the nickname much more than the actual name. No idea what will happen in future, but currently she's the equivalent of 'Her name is Bryony but we're calling her Ottie' (although it happened completely by accident in our case). She is only one.

I think Bryony is lovely. It's a very pretty name, a plant name, but it doesn't seem twee or cutesy like a lot of flower names can do. It's not a male name with a Y on the end! I much prefer it to Ottilie, which I don't like at all. Bryony and Imogen go well together, whereas Ottilie is clunky and ugly-sounding, in my opinion, but it seems popular on here.

Personally I think Bryony is prettier than Imogen, which I think don't feel flows as nicely and isn't so feminine.

We had Ottilie on our list, but my Mums reaction was the same as yours. In hindsight, maybe it is a bit pretentious. It is in the top 10 names announced in the Telegraph...interpret than as you will!

I understand the wish for sibling names to go together. You are always going to say 'my children are Imogen and X' so it makes perfect sense! E names seem to go well with I names, as do A...how about Elodie if you want another 3 syllable name?

I also really like Ottilie.

(And don't like Bryony)

Much much much prefer Ottilie. Don't like Bryony at all. Please change it back!

I really like Bryony, however, my friend spells it Bryoni (she's 26)
It's totally your decision, does Bryoni suit her or does Phoebe or Ottilie fit her better. To be honest I think Bryoni is the nicest out of the 3. X

Change it, my DS was Alexander for a day, Hugo for a week and then back to Alexander by day 10. Sometimes these things things take time. Don't listen to anyone's opinion go with your gut.

Another vote for bryony. The thing is though, she’s YOUR baby and you have to call her what you like. My youngest daughters name has caused faces over the years, but I love it and so does she, so that’s what matters!

I like Ottilie in it's original, German, pronunciation: Ot-teel-ye-ah.
According to Forvo, that's what's used in American English, too.
forvo.com/search/Ottilie/de/

(Ottilie is a modern version of a very old German name 'Odilia' (Oh-deel-ee-ah')

In France, it's become 'Ot-tee-lee'. If the French pronunciation is followed, as it sometimes is in England, then, as previous poster says, there's a danger of the name being lost among a great many 'Tillys'.

I like all your name possibilities, there's nothing that stands out as too weird or not compatible with Imogen. Clara was on my list but DH vetoed. You're doing exactly the right thing to delay registering and it's certainly not too late to change back even though cards have arrived with Bryony on. If you have a difficult to spell surname then Ottilie might make life a bit more awkward, but I have to spell out my name and married surname and it's not a big deal. She'd have to spell out Bryony anyway as there's different versions. Go with the one you love most, name regret isn't nice.