Are Tilly and Teddy too similar?

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We have a Matilda.
We love the name Edward for our son.

Hm, I think they're a bit twee together tbh. Ed or Ned?

Matilda & Edward are lovely names, but yes, Tilly & Teddy sounds like a CBeebies programme. A short that doesn't end in an -ee sound would work better if possible.

Yes, barnstormingly twee. Tilly and Ed though, that's really lovely.

Very twee. Could he be Ed / Eddie?

They're only nicknames, I think it's OK. Matilda and Edward are both great names and go really well together.

Honestly, I know he'll probably be Ed when older (and Matilda may be Mat) but I really like the NN Teddy, so would love to use that.

Thank you for the comments

Tbf it's better than Tillie and Teddie.

Lovely names, I wouldn't be discouraged from choosing Edward because of one nick name.

I know someone with a Teddy and Tilly

I know someone with a Tilly and a Ted and I think it works.

Eduardo Teduardo is brilliant! I have a 1 year old Teddy so need to come up with some funky nicknames (apart from Tubby because he is plump).

Ned and Matilda would be just about the most Australian combination ever.

I don't like Teddy as a nickname, but I think it's fine with Tilly. You won't often refer to your two children by name at the same time anyway.

"You won't often refer to your two children by name at the same time anyway.".

Really? Presumably you aren't including the next fifteen or so years in that? My second isn't even three months yet and I call the pair of them "X and Y" all the time, so much so I run it altogether into nearly a single word!

Tilly and Teddy sound like children's entertainers to me. If you have a handful of other children in between so that it's Tilly, Mike, Jane and Teddy, that might be ok. But otherwise I'd avoid.