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Narrowed it down - which do you prefer?

62 replies

Violetandpurple · 26/03/2022 08:18

Our 4th baby girl is due in the summer.

Madeline
Matilda
Primrose

All 3 go lovely with our other dd's names
Primrose I think is beautiful but is it too out there.. which do you prefer and why.

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hattie43 · 29/03/2022 19:48

Absolutely maddie or Tilly , primrose absolutely not .

Buttercup54321 · 29/03/2022 19:29

Automatically think McCann for Madeline.
Matilda. Did they want a Matthew?
Primrose. I knew a cow named that. Sorry!!!

Marynotsocontrary · 28/03/2022 14:33

It's probably different in Australia all right, ButterRose. I don't know where the OP is based actually, but most likely the UK I suppose.

ButterRose · 28/03/2022 13:24

@Marynotsocontrary sorry I haven't checked the most popular lists recently I just seem to hear Madeline and Adeline both alot in Australia where as Matilda is still a rarity

SpiderinaWingMirror · 28/03/2022 12:00

I have a Madeleine. Lovely name and she has liked it growing up.
I also had Mathilda on my short list but preferred Maddie to Tilly for short.

HailAdrian · 28/03/2022 11:51

Madeline

clpsmum · 28/03/2022 11:50

Matilda without question it's beautiful

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 28/03/2022 11:44

I'd absolutely hate to be called Primrose.

MissConfused08 · 28/03/2022 11:40

They are all beautiful names, but I prefer Primrose.

NETSRIK · 28/03/2022 11:37

Primrose by a mile

Marynotsocontrary · 28/03/2022 11:35

But Matilda is much more popular than Madeline and its variants are, in the UK at least, @ButterRose.

ButterRose · 28/03/2022 11:22

I think Matilda would be best cute Nick name choices either Matty or Tilly she can be either girly or tomboyish and it would work

Primrose I feel is a lovely name but very girly so it may work but she may feel it's too much to live up to

Madeline I feel although pretty is to overused and popular along with Adeline and variations

AddictedToVinted · 28/03/2022 10:42

They're all pretty but I'm not too keen on Prim as a shortening.

Marigold, Rosalind, Margeruite? Just some suggestions that spring to mind.

Congratulations Smile

BlueFlavour · 28/03/2022 10:28

Primrose

BeyondMyWits · 26/03/2022 18:33

My friend (57) is a Madz... fab shortening of Madeline.. she's Maddie to her family and Madz to her mates... still...

Mumofgirls2017 · 26/03/2022 18:28

Ivv ve like Matilda best but it is popular

I love Primrose too, would nn Posey

DogsAndGin · 26/03/2022 17:08

Primrose

NeedleNoodle3 · 26/03/2022 16:46

Madeline
Matilda is awful.

BrokenRecords · 26/03/2022 16:43

Primrose. Is violet out ? Just looking at your user name x

Dinoteeth · 26/03/2022 16:42

And Prim is a great shortening I think

Really?? Who on earth wants to end up as Miss Prim.

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 26/03/2022 14:59

Prim a great shortening?!

Yuck.

scottishnames · 26/03/2022 14:58

OP I like Primrose best out of your selection, but - though this may not matter at all - it's no longer 'out there'. It's one of the names that's been growing fastest in popularity over the past two or three years. This website lets you check trends in baby names in England and Wales over the past 25 years:
names.darkgreener.com/#primrose
Even so, there is now such a large number of names used for girls that the total number of babies with any name, except perhaps the top 20, is never going to be very great. (There were only 320 babies named Primrose in England and Wales in 2020, for example.)

RestingMurderousFace · 26/03/2022 14:58

Primrose is lovely, so pretty.

Luredbyapomegranate · 26/03/2022 14:55

@beans1992

Primrose is lovely! And Prim is a great shortening I think. Reminds me of the girl from Hunger Games.

I think people always react to anything a little different but actually it’s a straightforward name to spell and say. Matilda is quite bland to me. Madeline is ok, but would definitely be Maddie so you have to be ok with that I think.

Who on earth wants to be called Prim as a nn?!

Prim and Proper is not what you want a 21st century girl to be.

Luredbyapomegranate · 26/03/2022 14:54

Matilda or Madeleine - both lovely, would probably go with Matilda as I am not keen on Maddy.

Primrose I think it’s appallingly wet.
The fact that poor bullied Mrs Shipman was Primrose doesn’t help much either.