Marissa or Matilda

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Our baby girl is due in June. We're stuck on names. Help! Which do you prefer?

Matilda

Matilda definitely! I think Marissa is a bit dated.

You will be forever correcting Marissa from Melissa.

Marissa is lovely, and much less popular than Matilda, which I also like.

I used to know an Italian girl called Marisa, which she pronounced the same as Marissa. That's nice too, and a bit less frilly than Marissa.

Ooh interesting. I thought this was gonna be a landslide for Marissa. Balls. DH will be so smug.

I do really like Matilda but just think it's getting very popular now. Decisions, decisions.

Marissa, definitely. I've always liked it, plus I know 3, maybe 4 Matildas, but no-one called Marissa.

Definitely Matilda

Matilda flows from the tongue more easily.
Marissa would probably get confused with
Melissa

I know Matilda is popular but it is fantastic. I can not imagine regretting using this name.

Marissa is beautiful.

Both lovely names, I love Marissa, only ever known one and she was a lovely girl.

Marissa is beautiful. I like both but Marissa gets my vote!

Marissa

Marissa. Or Alissa?

Matilda, though I do like Marissa.

Marissa is a bit more interesting as it’s less popular

Marissa, its more of an adult name in the long run.

Marissa is nicer, IMO, and Matilda is too popular at the moment.

I find Marissa a bit twee, but Marisa much less so, weirdly. I like Matilda very much.

I think Marissa is lovely, Matilda is also nice but too popular!

Marissa. Love it. It sounds softer too

Oh a few more for Marissa now! Thanks for the responses.

My thinking re Matilda is that it's becoming very popular and there will be lots of little Matilda's in her class etc. and also I just see it as a little girls name (no offence intended to any Matilda mums out there).

Our other main option is Beatrice.

All lovely. I also prefer Marisa to Marissa, though it won't be so consistently pronounced if you are in the UK. I also think of Matilda as quite popular, but tbh I don't actually know a single one of any age. If you pick something that you think is 'out there', usually about 5 other couples will do the same - Matilda is a great name. Til is a lovely NN.

Matilda

I have a lisp so am very glad I wasn't named anything with a 'sss' in it. It limited my choice of names for DC too - so I would go with Matilda