Which variation of Matilda do you prefer?

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Tilly, Tilda or Mattie?

Tilly or Tilda.

Mattie just sounds like a boy!

Mattie

Be prepared for the ‘you can’t choose a diminutive’ comments...but you can when they are small and they are far more likely to go by the diminutive they have always been called in later life.

Tilly or Tilda
Prefer Tilda

Tilda. Tilly makes me think of a dog.

I just love Matilda, it pretty and strong.

Tilly is very cute. I hope this doesn't sound horrible but when I saw Tilda, I thought of Tilda rice but that's really not that awful

Tilly is lovely, don’t like the others.

I have a Matilda. We use both Tilly and Tilda although she prefers Matilda.

Know what you mean about the rice!!

Tilly or Mattie (but then yes, this could be perceived as the male y short for Matthew)

Tilda reminds me of Tilda microwave rice

Oh sorry didn’t see someone else already mentioned the rice thing! So I second that

Tilda is nice

My cousin has three girls, one is a Mattie

I know someone who nicknamed their DD Matilda as Tildy, thus avoiding the rice association.

Tilly

Tilly, I have one, she isn't a matilda, it's a family joke that when people ask if it is short for Matilda we reply no its short for Atila (she is a petite but slightly feral 11 year old)

Tily or maddie

Be prepared for the ‘you can’t choose a diminutive’ comments...but you can when they are small and they are far more likely to go by the diminutive they have always been called in later life.

You can but with one of our twins we used the diminutive for about a week and then never used it again. It just didn’t fit him! Very strange. We now use all sorts of weird names for them, which have come from bizarre places - for a long time they were Filden and Fildino, based on a random typo we encountered in nicu (nothing like their names at all). Names are weird.

I like Tilda FWIW

My (14 month old) Matilda gets a variety - when I was pregnant I was sure she was only going to be Tilda!

Mostly she's Matilda.
When she's being naughty, she's Matilda Elizabeth.
When she's being a whirlwind, she's my little Tildabeest.
When we're talking about her body, we have Tilly's toes and tummy but Matilda's mouth!
She also gets Tilly-Beth, Tills, the cats' names, Squeaks and Sodlet.

The one name she doesn't get very much is Tilda.

Mattie.

Mattie is my fave, but also really like Tilly.

I'm afraid I also thought of the rice for Tilda

I love Matilda and also like all the diminutives.

Tilly

Tilly