Marissa or Matilda

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

Marisa. Lovely for a girl and a grown up. Beautiful name.

As someone who works in a primary school, please no more Matilidas and Tillys. So over done. And not even that nice! I wouldn't want to be a grown up Tilly.

Love Matilda. Have you considered Larissa?

Marissa is lovely

I used to love Matilda but it's become so well used that I find it a bit dull now

Beatrice is great, nn Bea is lovely too.

Marisa. Matilda is lovely too but lots around.

Matilda is too popular. You have months to think of a name. Marissa is nice but I don't love it. it will get shortened.

Adore Marissa.

Hate Matilda.

I know one Marisa, who is about 50, pronounced the same as Marissa. I think it is much nicer than Matilda.

Marissa is nice.

How about Melisande? Although you have possibility of Mel nickname again.

Tilly Mint?

Sounds like your DH is more focused on thinking of winsome little nicknames than actually naming a person. Matilda is fine, she will possibly be Tilly, she won't be Tilly Mint, what she definitely will be is one of many, many Matildas in her school. It's overused, so it will date. The Matildas of now will be the Claires of the 80s!

I know what you mean about Ma-reese-ah/Ma-riss-ah. I think in the UK you could choose which way you pronounce it though.

Either way, Marisa/Marissa with nn Missy or Mimi is loads better than Matilda/Tilly.

Have you Googled Tilly Mint? The first result is a Mumsnet thread from 2004, asking what it means! The answer is effectively 'Little Madam' (female with ideas above her station) in Scouse dialect.

I just don't think nicknames happen like that. They're usually spontaneous, unexpected and often unrelated to the given name.

I remember meeting a grown-up Tilly and an Amelia about 16 years ago and thinking 'what lovely unusual, old-fashioned names. Touch of the Enid Blyton about them'. Not so unusual now.

Beatrice is lovely too - I think it's increased in popularity but not in such a mainstream way.

Hahaha OP then google Tilly Mint and let him know that he's effectively going to be calling her 'Little Scouse Madam'

That should put him off!!!

Little scouse madam has made me laugh as DH is scouse. That's probably where he's got it from.

We'll probably go for Beatrice I think. I don't want Matilda and he doesn't want Marissa. ~the absolute swine~

Thanks for all the help!

Beatrice is great. Actually better than either of the others, I think!

Bea or Bibi is fab.

Beatrice would get my vote, a little less common than Matilda, more classic and chic than Marissa IMO.
Bea is a cute nickname

Marissa/Marisa is lovely. There are too many Matildas at the moment

Matilda 100% no contest.
Marrisa strikes me as very American.

My middle name is Matilda and it was virtually unheard of when I was born. I always wish it was my first name

It's having a comeback now for sure, but school isn't going to be overrun by them, and there's so many shortening options (Mattie, Tilda, Tilly) that it probably wouldn't be a problem.

Thanks all - we've decided on Beatrice.

Baby will be called Beatrice Catherine Matilda [Surname].

Appreciate all the input. Glad we have the name sorted now.

matilda definietly

How lovely 💕

Lovely name OP.

Beatrice is lovely as well!! Congratulations

Matilda

Beatrice is lovely.

Amused that he still snuck 'Matilda' in even though you don't want it. He does know that you're the one that does the hard work on having the baby, right? You shouldn't have a name you don't like.

Marissa