Ottilie

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Love it or hate it?

Love but it's vair posh not sure I'd use it as beside ds's posho name we may be laughed at!

Hate it, sorry!
Reminds me of otters or utterly, which then leads me on to Utterly Butterly.

I love it. I don't think it's 'too posh'. It's really sweet and has scope for the child to adopt a shoterned version as they grow, which I guess not everyone likes but for me that's a good thing.

Love love love it!

It's one of these totally predictable names that MN loves. As soon as I see this name mentioned on here I know it's guaranteed to get rave reviews from Mumsnetters. Although it's apparently very popular on here I have never met one in real life and I live in London. It's not posh, it's pretentious (and probably trying to be posh) IMO.

I like it . Don't find it posh or pretentious. Don't know any in RL but that has to be a good thing, it can't be too common. Well not in NW anyway. Go for it!

Don't like it at all.

I know an Ottilie, it's quite sweet. I also know a baby Ottoline, and prefer it to that.

I don't like it, sorry.

A name can not be posh or pretentious. The person who chooses it could be, or the person who carries the name may be, but a name...its just a name. I think it's very pretty.

I know an Ottilie. It's quite pretty but not my favourite

Its lovely - use it!

My dd has a name which always comes up on the 'names only ever heard on mn' threads.

I like it and like it pronounced Oh-TEE-lee-eh, with the emphasis on the second syllable.

Thanks all :-)

I'm not keen. I know one and yes, the family is posh.

Love it. I know two, neither are posh.

The most pretentious couple I know named their daughter Ottilie.

I have one. It's a family name from the German side of my family. So neither posh nor pretentious. It was either that or Minna; Adelheid and Frieda were not in the running.

Never heard it before but I did straight away think ottilie-butterly

Love!

It's one of those names that lovely on a baby and a child, but would sound a bit odd on an adult woman. And she'll be an adult woman for much longer than she'll be a child.......

"I like it and like it pronounced Oh-TEE-lee-eh, with the emphasis on the second syllable."

But that's not how it's pronounced. That's like saying you like the name Theodora but pronounced The-OD-ora.

Love it, it's one of dd's middle names

Bertrand, that is the German pronunciation. But agree it would be pretentious if you had no claims to German-ness!

It's like Amelie in that it sounds lovely with a French accent but shit in an English one