baby due thursday - elodie or ottilie?

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Baby is due thursday, what do people like - elodie, or ottilie? Alice is middle name. One set of in laws prefer elodie, the others ottilie. HELP!
Also nicknames advice please......

Both are beautiful! I like Elodie slightly more though I think.

Elodie. And exactly how popular is too popular? I don't know of any Elodies in RL.

Eloise is beautiful!

*Elodie - stupid autocorrect!

I love love love Elodie

Don't like Ottilie not even sure how you pronounce it

Elodie is beautiful

Elodie, definitely.

Elodie!!! Definitely. I am an Elodie. I love my name and so does everyone I meet. I'm 41 and have only ever met one other. (I'm half French - it's French but quite rare there too). I do have to say "Melodie without the M" quite a lot.

Also I've never had my same shortened to Ellie. Only one person (sister) calls me El. And my council tax bill came the other day and they had spelt my name LODELODIE.... because I had said it and immediately spelt it out for them. Idiots.

I mean my name

Love Ottilie.

Elodie is lovely. My favourite French name is Maelle (pronounced My-el). Think it's a Breton name.

Have a friend with an elodie, deedee for short. Its a lovley name.

Elodie, definitely, very pretty name.

Ottilie makes me think of furry creatures that swim, sorry!

Squid, I'll have to warn dd2 to watch out for idiots when she needs to spell her name out

I love Ottilie in French but in an English accent I think it just sounds like "utterly" and that put me off using it for my daughters

I love Elodie, it is so pretty.

Why is everyone calling their child ottilie ?

Elodie is more unusual

I'd never heard of Ottilie until there was an actress in something at Christmas called Ottilie nn. Otto. I really like it and added it to our girls' names list but DH vetoed it immediately. No idea it was getting so popular.

I think Ottilie Alice is lovely.

Elodie is also a nice name, but I know a baby Elodie whose mother is a horrible snob so very unreasonably that's put me off it.

Oooh I love Elodie- beautiful!

Not really heard of Ottilie- only Odile which is kind of similar.
Personally, sounds too much like "otter" and potential annoying spelling issues.
I would go for Elodie!

Do you think you will shorten the names? To what?

Squid that is funny!

@ Amandine07 and AmandinePoulain I love the name Amandine but you have to say it with a French accent! I also like Amelie and Magalie (in French). My sister is called Emeline which I like too.
I'm having a boy in Sept and we want to call him Atticus. I love it even though it doesn't really work in French. Tant pis!

Elodie.

I'd rather have Ottoline than ottilie. I know rather too many Elodies now to really like it. Are you set in a French name? I love Melusine but probs doesn't work with Alice.