Kilda

[moastina]

What do you think of the name Kilda for a girl? I saw a boat called Kilda when I was on holiday and really liked it. I also like Hilda but my partner thinks of witches...

St Kilda in Melbourne also has lots of junkies and prostitutes, not exactly something I would want associated with my daughter.

Don't like it.

No

You can do worse than Scottish place names. Grabs a map, close your eyes and point -great way of choosing book character names.

How about Rannoch Laggan for a boy, and Skye Kentra for a girl.

Job done

Kilda is actually okay, though not by the descriptions ^ of people who have actually seen it.

Ps, should have explained I chose the names abve by doing just that, a simple map experiment.

I love Hilda. I think it's really nice.

I quite like Kelda and Hilda, but Kilda just makes me think "killed a what?", so I don't like it.

I like it

Only if her middle name is "Wabbit"

Obviously prefer Kelda, it works very well as a MN nickname.

Kilda is far better then Hilda.

Tilda, short for Matilda, is nice.

I know a Gilda (will be 40ish now), beautiful woman and beautiful name.

I think Tilda is nice or Zelda?

Yes, we're in Scotland but I'm Swedish so the struggle really is to find something that works nicely in both languages. Kelda is quite nice but it's a margarine brand in Sweden. Would be a bit like calling her Lurpak.. Kelso, Galashiels... LOL
I think Gilda is the best option. I've always liked Gil as a NN on both boys and girls.

I have a cousin called kilda (named after the island) and it has always seemed to me to be a lovely strong unique name. I personally have never made the association with 'kill' but yes it does depend upon your surname (which if it is swedish may be less of a problem) and I do appear to be in the minority!

Nice one!! So cool that there is a Kilda out there! It have never met someone with the name but according to the statistics there are 4 girls called Kilda in Sweden!
I never thought of "Kill"either, in my head i pronounce it more like "keelda" if that makes sense, Scottish sound I guess.

I think you should go for it. It;s a real name, easy to pronounce, you obviously like it.

I rather like it.

I think Kilda is nice, unusual, unique.

I think it's lovely - I would use it myself if I didn't already have a Kester.

I rather like it. I would immediately think of the island, which is a world heritage site I believe

Never heard it before but like it, would be lovely in Scotland and Sweden :)

I really like it.

When I was about 9 I decided I was going to have triplet girls and call them Kilda, Iona and Skye!
I think I was obsessed with Kilda - it has a very sad history if you don't know about it (or even if you do in fact, it's still sad!)

Nice and I like Hilda too..

Not keen, sorry.