Please critique my list!

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Alys / Alice
Cecily / Cecilia
Ottilie
Matilda

Please critique

Cecilia
(one of my favourites; great musical heritage; not overused; CeCe nice NN)

Cecily
(pretty and also not overused; gets my vote, almost entirely because it brings back happy childhood memories of Beatrix Potter's "Cecily Parsley")

Cecily / Cecilia are my favourites. I like both of them.

I actually prefer Celia, which is an anagram of English spelt Alice but is somehow less frilly than the other Cecily Cecelia versions.

Cecilia is my favourite

I love Cecily, so pretty and different

I like Alice or Cecilia

Unless you are going to be living in a Welsh speaking community, don't go with a Welsh spelling of a name - she will spend her life having to correct people.

Alice and Matilda.

Matilda and Cecily are lovely.

Alice is OK.

Do not get Ottilie at all I'm afraid.

Alys / Alice: Alice is nice.
Cecily / Cecilia: nice, I prefer Celia. I personally actually really love Celia. It's so 'sleek' but sounds also strong and feminine,
Ottilie: cute
Matilda: very popular. But it is lovely.

Hmm, thanks everyone! I've whittled it down to Cecily or Alys I think

In that case definitely Alys. Not keen on Cecily!

Cecily for me

Alys is a bit try hard to me. It's as if you liked Alice, but wanted to make it more interesting with a different spelling. Or you're a huge Chaucer fan.

My sister is Cecily and went through school being Cess or Cesspit, just something to think about

Really dislike Alice. Ottilie is beautiful, I am very bias there though.

People will constantly spell it wrong on forms etc if you spell Alice as Alys. You or she will always have to point out the correct spelling.

And it looks weird.

Like it's "Al -is" rather than Al ICE.

The Cecily I know has had Cece for a nn from a little girl, with no derogatory names at all. I think Cecily is a name that's pretty when they are little, and cool and sophisticated for a grown up.

I remember a movie where Joan Collins played a girl called Ottilie, I think it is a beautiful name, quite unusual and unique. She was so beautiful in that movie.

Cecily is my second favourite. But Alice and Mathilda not so sure.

Alys is a perfectly acceptable variant spelling of Alice. There are different ways of spelling Isobel/Claire/Rachel/Katherine etc but no one tells people not to use those names.

I really like Alys.

I like Alice. How about Alyce? Or Alyssia ?
Matilda then Cecily.
Not crazy about Ottilie, reminds me of an otta.