Matilda, Amelie, Freya, Arabel

[tdam]

Hi all,

I'm due in just over two months and am endlessly debating between these names. To be entirely honest, Arabel isn't likely an option as my partner doesn't love it but I've included it out of curiosity (and I'm hoping it grows on him).

Which is your favourite and why? Do you know anyone/many people with these names? Feel free to rank them as well.

Some others I love but that have been vetoed by my partner are Olive, Iris, Margot/Margaux, Violet and Juno. I'm desperately hoping he comes around to some/one of these as I feel, particularly with Olive and maybe Margot too, that I'd happily use them tomorrow if I gave birth.

Thanks so much for any help/opinions!

@tdam exactly the reason why we used Matilda. I’m a huge book worm and Matilda was my favourite growing up, I always said I’d have a little girl named Matilda.
Olive is lovely, another my DH vetoed, keep pushing 😉

I have a Matilda fabulous name nothing but compliments and she lives up to her name too... cheeky, clever, wise for her years.

I like Arabel best (Arabella better) - mostly because every other girl in our school is called Matilda, Amelie or Freya.

Love Matilda
Hate the rest

Totally thought this was a spoof "Sean, Daniel or Balonz" thread!
Arabel just reminds me of arable farming. Nope.

Matilda gets my vote. DS was going to be Matilda, and by the time we had DD a couple of close friends had used it so we couldn't 😭

Matilda

I like them all a lot except Arabel. It just looks like a typo.

Arabel will be confused with Annabel when written down which your DD will find annoying having to constantly correct

All the Freya’s that I know (11 or younger) are very hard work. Very!

There are lots of matilda’s In the under 5’s here too.

Arabel looks like a spelling mistake.

Amelie is my favourite of the 4 by far.

My favourite is Matilda

Amelie out of those. Freya and Matilda are pretty common.

They are all ok about from arabel which makes me think of crop farming.

I hate the nickname Tilly for Matilda. It's so awfully twee.

I like Arabel! I loved the "Arabel and Mortimer" books as a child

We have a Matilda, but also not keen on Tilly as a nn. Most often being referred to as "Tilda" (which makes me think of T Swinton ) or "Moo". I also really like Juno.

I will advise that Amelia is a very common name (I work in a school and in my class alone we have 3 Amelia's) I like Freya, that's not as common and Matilda is nice too.