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Can you use nickname Lottie for Matilda?

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 06:51

Just wondering as you can use Lottie and Tillie for Ottilie.

Can you not get nickname Lottie out of Matilda too?

I know this is usually a nickname for Charlotte

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PlaymobilPirate · 19/12/2017 06:53

Nope- nowhere near!

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HelenaJustina · 19/12/2017 06:54

Nah, not really

Marmite27 · 19/12/2017 06:55

It’s a nickname, you can use what you like. My parents call me Lottie and my name is Caroline!

Marmite27 · 19/12/2017 06:55

Is like Caroline Wink

AdalindSchade · 19/12/2017 06:56

No

FluffyMcCloud · 19/12/2017 06:56

I agree that you can do what you want with nicknames but I can't see how you'd get Lottie from Matilda?

mumof2sarah · 19/12/2017 06:57

You can use what ever you want as nicknames it doesn't have to connected to a name. Out of all my siblings not one has a nickname that's connected. They've got nicknames from their personalities and then my newphews and my own children are the same x

Waitingonasmile · 19/12/2017 06:57

Most definitely not! It's not even nearly similar. Why don't you just go with Lotte and not bother with Matilda?

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 06:57

Oh that’s a Shame, thank you. Was trying to see if Charlotte and Ottilie are the only ways and I love the nickname Lottie

Nice names but I know so many Charlottes and no Matilda’s and I do think Matilda is sweet.

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 06:59

Because when she grows up and goes for job interviews she may want to have a more mature name to fall back on

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 07:00

Waitingonasmile That was my reply to your question, sorry forgot to add that

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TalkingSheds · 19/12/2017 07:00

Tilda is what you'll get from that, which is nice Smile

HeteronormativeHaybales · 19/12/2017 07:00

I'm afraid it would be a bit like introducing people to baby Katherine, nickname Polly. There's just no connection.

If you want your dd to be called Lottie, call her Lottie - you can have Charlotte on the birth certificate so she can use it when she grows up, but only ever have her known as Lottie everywhere. Charlotte Matilda is a fine name. Or call her Matilda Charlotte, known as Lottie - it's not at all unheard of for people to go by their middle names or versions thereof.

AdalindSchade · 19/12/2017 07:01

If she's been called Lottie all her life she won't want to introduce herself as Matilda in a job interview!

Ohyesiam · 19/12/2017 07:02

Yes, you can use whatever nick name you like. You don't have to explain your choices to anyone.

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 07:06

Prefer to use a main name I like DC to use, oh if it wasn’t for the book Lottie Potter wants an Otter, just got me to love the name Lottie Grin and other DC love it too

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 07:07

And that it’s related to nickname too, Charlotte may be the way then

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Mum8 · 19/12/2017 07:08

Or Carlotta, is that nice or too out there?

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BikeRunSki · 19/12/2017 07:15

You can nickname anybody anything, but Lottie is not an abbreviation or per form of Matilda.

Flumplet · 19/12/2017 07:17

Tilly if you're desparate

pipilangstrumpf · 19/12/2017 07:20

Matilda is lovely as it is, why shorten it? And if her friends do shorten it, then probably to Matty or Tilda.

Labradoodliedoodoo · 19/12/2017 07:21

Loretta Lottie

Labradoodliedoodoo · 19/12/2017 07:23

Anyway it doesn’t matter about nicknames being used for interview purposes. Cute names are the norm now. Lottie is similar to flower names anyway. Daisy poppy rose it’s not a crazy name.

Crumbs1 · 19/12/2017 07:23

Parents don’t usually get to choose the nicknames past toddlerhood. If you like Lottie, call her Lottie. If her name is to be Matilda she will be Mattie, Mads, Tilly, Tilda or even Grumble, Fizz, Smithy or a million other names unrelated to Lottie or Matilda.