Do you like Ottilie?

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For DD due in the summer?

I'm really struggling with names and just can't decide - go from one to the other. I don't know any other Ottilie's but at the same time it isn't vastly unusual, I don't think.

If you don't like it, feel free to make other suggestions!

I know someone who has a dd with that name. She lives in France though - I presume it is a french name? I think it's very pretty :)

Absolutely love it.

Love it. I also love Elodie which is similar in style

I live in a French area and it's not common here, but it's not unknown. It's written Cléodie. I've seen it in a couple of birth announcements in England though.
I do like Ottilie and like Tilly as a shortening. It would go well with your other DDs.

Gorgeus, i would consider it but no
More babies here!

How about the Dutch name Ottoline ?

Love Elodie too - but it's v common in the area i used to live in in England (South West)

I'm not sure about Ottoline; not sure why. I think I like the 'tilly' sound with Ottilie.

I do love Willow but it just doesn't go with our surname at all. I've decided to use my mums name as a middle name as DD1 has my husbands mums name as her middle name and that goes reasonably well with Ottilie as well, I think.

I love the name Ottilie. It's very pretty without being incredibly posh. I think it goes very with your other children's names, in fact I think we have similar taste in names as I loved Flora and my DD has one of the other names you suggested!

It's so nice to see positive comments about Flora. I get a lot of 'margarine' comments.

I have started saying 'Flora, like the Roman goddess of spring!'

DN is an Ottilie...her mother tries to call her Tilly, but as her toddler older brother initially mispronounced it as Lily, that has become her nickname.
Love it.

Oh, goodness - if you have a daughter called Flora (lovely, BTW), don't use Ottilie - I'm not keen on the name Ottilie, mainly because it makes me think of Utterly Butterly - the margarine comments will be doubled.

Cordelia? Very pretty and formal and could be Cora, Cordy or Delia.

I don't like Ottilie at all, it reminds me of otters and utterly butterly, I do like Mabel and Rosamund though.

It's too posh for my taste but it is very pretty, and Tilly is a cute nn.

Flora is a wonderful name.

It's one of my favourite ever names. But I love Ottoline as well.

Your previous names are very short and simple so you may not want to use Annunziata or Clemency or anything gloriously cumbersome. Cosima might be a little too grand as well.

Something like Hebe or Esmé as alternatives?

Not sure about them though I don't know why, although I suspect not really liking Esme is because of twilight!

Oh goodness - had forgotten about that!

Ottilie = originally German and a version of Odilia (and originally pronouned Ott-teel-ee-yah); often pronounced Ott-eel-ee in France and UK, however

What about Ginevra, Jessamy, Dorothea, Richenda, Juliana, Mirabel ...

I don't like any of them sorry! Quite like Odette (love ballet)

The problem with that name is it sounds awful if anyone outside of Southern England tries to say it. I'm in N.I. Where T's in the middle of words aren't pronounced, so it would be 'oddilly', the people in coronation street (Manchester?) would say 'aw-illeh', imagine it in Scouse, Geordie, brummie, etc. etc. and European accents, she could end up anywhere in the world in her life, and it does sound a bit like 'utterly'...

But Sossidge people from anywhere in the world can travel as well. I'm not sure running every name in every language through a worldwide brummieometer (say) is entirely practical or even desirable.

I know, zero, but some names only work in one accent, my relative is considering a name for her kid that I cannot pronounce at all (it's an English name), at all some names get brutalised by those of us who crunch our vowels or roll/don't roll Rs, drop H's, etc. but it's something to think about, I remember a thread where someone wanted to call their kid something beginning with H, but lived in a city where H's were dropped, so she heard lots of little 'arry, 'ope, 'arriets getting screeched at in supermarkets!