People's negative comments

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Hi there

I chose Matilda for my baby girl. I love the name and most people have been positive about the name too.
But had two people this week who have said it is an old lady's name and one saying that some babies can suit names but don't suit them as adults.
Yes, there are some names I don't like but keep my mouth shut. So far I have just ignored the comments or laughed them off but would u say something?

My sisters name is that, shes young, spelt the correct way, I think the problem is if you spell it that way it's obvious it's due to the Roald Dahl book. My sister is known as Tilda, Hilda or Mattie so not the end of the world just pick the nickname now.

Also just to add, a woman who works for my mum who is horrible called her twins m_ and Matilda after being horrible to my mum at work all year, so stealing names also isn't great, both names are my siblings names which is just creepy

I've literally never met anyone in my life whose insulted another person's baby name to their face... that is so weird?? Incredibly insulting and brazen. Matilda is lovely and literary -- you've done your job and given your child a good name. Rest easy now if you can :)

My cousin had a Matilda Rose but she is 22. They were clearly ahead of their time , as they also have 21 year old's Harry, Evie and Flo.

How odd. Matilda has been back in fashion for ages! It's lovely.

Also, the vast majority of names work on a 100 year cycle, so at any given time a substantial crop of the currently fashionable names will have been the names commonly used around a century prior. At the moment it's likely the last strains of the Ethel, Elsie, Stanley, Archie type names. The Barbaras and Peggies and Erics and Brians are up next (indeed are already starting to creep in). People of a certain age will associate any incoming crop of names with parents, aunts and uncles, their former teachers etc and so they will seem hideously passé when their grandchildren get given them! The same will happen to us when our grandchildren are called things like Neil, Nicole and Alison.

Matilda is a lovely name btw.

As you have already chosen the name they are being rude.