Ottilie, Heidi or Verity?

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Which is your favourite? And what sort of person do you picture with each name?

Heidi.

Verity strikes me as plain, quite clever but not brilliant, and rather old-fashioned.

Ottilie is a precocious princess whose parents sign her up for horseriding, ballet and violin lessons from the age of 3.

Heidi is normal.

Can't say I'm fussed on any of them, honestly.

Probably Ottilie, if I had a gun to my head.

I like them all. Verity is probably my favourite. I like ottilie a lot and Heidi is sweet but probably my least favourite out of the three.

Heidi is definitely my favourite.

Everything @bridgetreilly said is what'd I say too.

I have a Heidi.

We don't know anyone else with her name and she gets lots of compliments for it.

I do like Ottilie - would have been odd with our surname but I think it is charming. My neighbours daughter is Verity and is clever, beautiful and kind ( the good fairy really handed out all the gifts there)so I have good associations with the name but I am not sure I would choose it otherwise. It seems a bit of a brittle name.

Heidi - if flaxen plaits and a head for heights can be guaranteed , maybe. Otherwise, no.

Heidi eats a lot of cheese and has a fondness for goats.

Ottilie is born and raised in Chelsea. She won't need to go to university. She will live off the family money.

Verity is strong, dependable and kind.

Heidi

I like Tilly but Ottillie is too frilly and lacy. Verity is nice but there's no obvious short form there. Veree?

Heidi

Heidi by a country mile.

Verity is perfectly nice and has a good meaning.

loathe Ottilie. Frilly, froufy aspirant middle-class nightmate.

Heidi will be friendly, attractive, and plough her own slightly uncoventional furrow. She will posaibly have a few discreet piercings and be into slightly obscure bands.

Verity will be very self-assured and successful in life. Practical and pragmatic, solid family, probably well-eduvated. Kind and accepting.

Ottilie will be gorgeous in Toddlerhood with tumbling ringlets: everyone will describe her as 'adorable' but then she will morph into a devil teen and/or take to wearing platform hobnail boots and dyeing her hair flat black as a protest.

Verity is nice without the froufrou effect.

Love Heidi!! Don't like Ottilie or Verity

Heidi reminds me of that plastic monstrosity from the hills. Brassy blonde and fake boobs will do anything for attention.

Verity could either be quite nerdy or alternative.

I can’t even pronounce the other one

Verity

Ottilie without a doubt, beautiful!

I have a Verity, I get lots of compliments on her name

Verity, it's lovely.

I really dislike Heidi & I'm not mad on Ottilie.

Love Verity. I like Ottilie too but I imagine her to be very Helena Bonham Carter in her younger years. Definitely self-absorbed Hampstead boho.

Not at all keen on Heidi as a name. Not sure why as I loved the book but it just doesn't look or sound pretty.

I used to know a very cool, very lovely Verity so I have very positive associations

It’s a good strong name.

I love Heidi and it would be on my list if we didn't already have a beloved girls' name!

Verity

Came on here to post, but won't bother as Ragusa has nailed it!

1. Verity
2. Ottilie
3. Heidi

I find both Ottilie and Heidi are lovely but also very childlike names. Whereas I think of Verity in the way Ragusa describes.

I think Ottilie is having a huge surge in popularity in case that is something that will put you off.

Ottilie - Don't like it. Too cutesy. I just hear 'otter'
Heidi - LOVE this name. Surprised it's not more popular. Imagine Heidi to be a strong, intelligent, adventurous girl.
Verity - A little bit posh. It's a nice name though. Like the 'ity' sound. It's an elegant , feminine name, but not too fluffy and cutesy.