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Phoebe or Matilda

32 replies

Bella1905 · 02/08/2025 19:02

Which name do you prefer please for our daughter due in a few weeks? Thanks

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ByLimeAnt · 02/08/2025 19:22

Matilda is very overused.

Don't think her generation will associate Phoebe with "Friends ".

Calliopespa · 02/08/2025 19:18

They are both nice names though I have a personal issue with Phoebe in that it makes me think of a mash-up of feeble and amoeba.

MonsterBookOfTyson · 02/08/2025 19:18

Phoebe. We have chosen Phoebe and neither of us like friends. However I do like charmed.

Moreteaandchocolate · 02/08/2025 19:08

I vote for Phoebe - a lovely name! I like Matilda too but all of the ones I know go by Tilly, which is cute for a child but I wouldn’t like as much for an adult.

youreactinglikeafunmum · 02/08/2025 19:04

Matilda, as agree with pp, I think of Phoene from friends

GoldenRosebee · 02/08/2025 19:03

both lovely
I do prefer Matilda I think

AmateurNoun · 02/08/2025 19:02

Both lovely. I'd probably go Matilda just because I associate Phoebe so strongly with Friends.