The final 2 - which one?!

[twolittleboysonetiredmum]

Right, I'm due what we think is a girl in 2 weeks. Have narrowed choices to:
Rosalind
Matilda
We have a surname that begins with m and I love the alliteration of Matilda with it. I actually I refer Matilda overall. However - i cannot actually imagine calling a child Matilda all the time and dislike the names Tilly and Tilda. So I'm not sure we can use it. I do like maud from it like the queen. Husband not so much.
Rosalind we'd shorten to Rosie I think. Love Rosie and love the character rosalind from Shakespeare.
I prefer the name Matilda basically but none of the nicknames from it. I know you can't choose your chns nicknames but from the beginning we will inevitably use a diminutive of either name and want her to have a more grown up name for the future.
Which would you go with?!

Love Matilda. My friends daughter is Matilda and they don't shorten it, obviously this might change at school.

I LOVE Rosie - it's my top girl name! Therefore, Rosalind :)

If you like the name and nickname then I think that's a better choice. Unless you start a nickname unrelated to their name and tell everyone what it is.

I grew up friends with a Rosalind, and although her parents preferred the nn Rosie, when she went to school EVERYONE called her Roz or Rozzy. I still know her now, 30 years on, and that is still what everyone barring her parents calls her!

Rosalind, Rosie is nice too.

Mattie is lovely as a NN for Matilda

It's got a little of that gender-neutral thing which is nice for teens/women

I love Matilda, but also like the nicknames. If you hate them then probably best not to go with it...I like Rosa & Rose but not keen on Rosalind..

I prefer Matilda but I'm also not keen on the nicknames. I like Mattie best of them. Congrats on the baby!

My bump has been named Matilda for 26 weeks, we have just this week gone off it & are now second guessing it.
we also dislike Tilda and Tilly so we we're calling her tills/Tilds x

Rosalind

I think Matilda is lovely & i've never ever met a Matilda so it's more unique.
Mattie is also very cute.

My daughters name is actually Matilda Rose so am 100% behind your choices there!

Just to complicate matters though we call her something completely different (& unrelated) as her familiar nn... Hth!

Argh I'm so torn! There's part of me that thinks rosalind sounds a bit clunky. And I like matty. Maybe I just need to meet Her and it'll all make sense...love the sound of Matilda rose...

I know a Matilda called her full name or Tills, not sure if you like that nickname either though?

Rosalind, nn Rosa/Rose

I actually prefer Matilda/Tilda but you dontseem to like it much

Haha I do like Matilda, just struggle to imagine actually using it in real life. I had it with names for our other two as well, there's names I can see written down but it's the saying out loud frequently that I can't picture. If that makes sense?!

I much prefer Rosalind. To me Matilda sounds clumsy, Roasalind elegant and beautiful.

If you're still reading this Op this might help!?

Name meanings:
Rosalind - Derived from the Germanic elements hros "horse" and linde "soft, tender". The Normans introduced this name to England, though it was not common. During the Middle Ages its spelling was influenced by the Latin phrase rosa linda "beautiful rose". The name was popularized by Edmund Spencer, who used it in his poetry, and by William Shakespeare, who used it for the heroine in his comedy 'As You Like It' (1599).

Matilda - From the Germanic name Mahthildis meaning "strength in battle", from the elements maht "might, strength" and hild "battle". Saint Matilda was the wife of the 10th-century German king Henry I the Fowler. The name was brought to England by the Normans, being borne by the wife of William the Conqueror himself. It was popular until the 15th century in England, usually in the vernacular form Maud. Both forms were revived by the 19th century. This name appears in the popular Australian folk song 'Waltzing Matilda', written in 1895.

Hence my name choices.... I felt (& still feel!) I wanted my DD to be strong, mighty, & beautiful - in that order! Labeling a child an "elegant delicate flower " first and foremost in this day and age seems weird to me....
and certainly would to DD as well, in fact if there was a name meaning beautiful but argumentative tank I would be sending off the deed poll forms as we speak

And Rick I believe the word you were looking for is Strong, not clumsy...??!!

silverstreak has an interesting point about how concerned you are about meaning. I prefer Rosalind, but agree that the meaning of Mathilda is much more what I'd want to name a daughter. Do you like Maud, or Hilda as abbreviations?

Thanks for that. I do much prefer the meaning of Matilda and one reason we'd thought of it originally was after the monarch.
But then I'm not sure how important the meaning is...
I like maud, dh Hates it otherwise that's what we'd do. Not so keen on hilda

I prefer Roseline to Rosalind.

Prefer Rosalind to Matilda though.

Quite like Lindy for a nn!