Matilda just too popular???

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My husband and I love the name Matilda but it seems its very popular at the moment, anybody else found this? I don't want there to be three other Matildas in her class at school!

What is too popular?

Don't know of any here. In NE England.

Thanks very much for all your feedback! Still love the name, so lets see!

are you saying i am becoming common???????

I have a Mathilda. It's only in the 40s in the name lists. Ours is Tilda.

I picked it out as a child (I adored the book) and didn't care about popularity. It isn't ridiculously popular. Agree with the pp that all the Lily, Tilly type names make it seem popular. It's a good, strong, traditional name. I had a great, great aunt Mathilda.

We've applied for her school place recently. No other Matildas in the school, let alone her class or year. There are going to be 3 Evies though in a class of 10.

I have a Matilda, nn Tilly who is 5 and a bit. I don't know any other Matildas, and only one Tilly where we are (SE) so I think the perception of its popularity is perhaps greater than the reality....

Actually, I lie, I've just thought of a second Tilly...but there isn't another one in her class/year that I know of.

Two Matildas ( both shortened to Tilly) in my NCT group.