Matilda, Isabelle or Harriet?

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Which do you prefer please?

I'm due in a week and am really stuck. I thought I'd decided on Harriet but I love Issie and have always liked Matilida too.

Thanks in advance

Isabelle

Matilda= Matty, Tilly, Tilda. Beautiful Name and lovely shortened names 😍.

I like Harriet and the nickname Hattie.

Matilda and Harriet I like best

I like both Matilda and Harriet. I think Harriet might be my favourite.

Harriet for sure. Isabelle has become a bit overused I would say. Matilda is ok but Harriet feels like a great name to see her through her whole life. Matilda to me is a child's name.

Isabelle

My favourite is Matilda (Tillie).

Do you pronounce your Ts and Hs? We had to veto Harriet due to DH's accent omitting Ts & Hs!

Good taste - my DDs between them have all these names either as first or middle names - Harriet is the more unusual one so maybe that one? There are lots of Matilda and Isabelles around.

All are nice and quite classic. Isabel would be my fave when it's spelt the simpler way - but otherwise it looks a touch frilly to me (unless you are French, in which case apologies!).

So between Harriet and Matilda it's difficult - maybe decide based on the nn's - Mattie, Milly, Tilly or Tilda; or Harry, Hattie, Hetty or Etta? (I think Harriet just edges it for me.).

I have a Matilda. We call her Tilda. Before she was born (6mo) I didn’t meet many, now every baby round here is one! Met a lovely rottie dog named Matilda a few weeks ago as well.

But I still love the name.

Matilda and Isabelle are my favourites!

I prefer Matilda

Harriet 100%. Fabulous name. Matilda is nice. Isabelle is OK. None of these are awful, though! You picked a great shortlist.

All 3 are really popular - I have senior school children (in different years) and I would say there are 4 or 5 of each name in the year group. Have a DD with one of those names and she was 1 of 4 with the same name in her class.

In her mixed class of 30 so 4 out of 15 girls had the same name!

I love them all! Would go for Harriet because (I think) it’s slightly less used than the other 2.

Harriet. I love it, possibly because I have a good friend Harriet who is the loveliest! I know a horrorbag tilly so it puts me off Matilda, even though theoretically I like it.

Harriet then Iasbelle.

Like them all but Harriet is the best - it’s a beautiful name, not ‘out there’, but definitely not one you come across all the time.

All lovely but all very popular at the moment. Just be prepared that they are the Sarah, Claire, and Emma of the 2020s. As long as you're fine with that that's ok - and my first name was the most common the year I was born and it was fine.

Matilda 100%

Isabelle.

Matilda