Help us choose a name for our first daughter

[BeKindBeYou]

Gosh, we are finding it very tough to choose a name for our first daughter! We would like to hear your ideas on our thoughts:

Tilly
Callie
Indie
Poppy
Dottie
Lillia
Lottie

A lot of these are too "little girl" for my tastes - I'd suggest Matilda, Dorothy, Charlotte w NNs Tilly, Dotty, Lottie if that's your kind of thing.

Agreed. They're very pretty names - but more for a puppy than a baby who'll grow into a woman.

Lillia is nice, not keen on rest

Lovely names. Out of those I would choose Tilly, Dottie and Lottie. Less keen on Indie Callie, or Lillia. I also love Pansy and Tansy.

I like Callie and Lottie.

Calliope nn callie

Or penelope nn poppy

I do think you have to imagine introducing yourself at a job interview with the name as well as how it will suit your beautiful baby. Callie is my favourite on the list.

Pretty on a 1 y/o, infantalising on a 21 y/o or a 31 y/o.

Don't really like them...sorry.

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I don't like any of them, sorry. All little girl names.

@whatausername

Pretty on a 1 y/o, infantalising on a 21 y/o or a 31 y/o.

Yes, Lottie the lawyer I do not see

They’re a bit too “puppy” for me. I’d go by a fuller name and use them as a nn.

Tilly - not keen. OK short for Matilda
Callie - prefer Cally or Carly short for Caroline
Indie - newspaper
Poppy - like
Dottie - like it short for Dorothy
Lillia - sounds like a brand of Tesco tampons
Lottie - nice short for Charlotte

They're all very pretty, but I'd test how they sound on a person at various stages of life.
They would all be fine on a baby or a small child. Less so a teenager, and by the time she's trying to get a serious job being called Dottie might be a problem! They all sound a diminutive of something else. She'd go through life explaining that yes, that was her full name and no, it's not short for anything.
I'd give her the full names and give the options growing up.

Matilda - Tilly
Dorothy - Dottie
Charlotte - Lottie

Callie.

Definitely not Dottie

Lottie is lovely

Dottie is awful.

They all just sound a bit cutesy and twee.

I do like Callie.

Lillia is beautiful and a bit different - I would definitely go with that.

I do like Poppy but know quite a lot of them.

Don't really like any of your other names.

Cally is ok

The rest are far to babyish

I like Indie

Most are shortenings, I'd choose the longer name so your DD would have a choice.

In order of preference x

Lottie
Callie
Tilly
Poppy
Indie
Dottie

Lillia

Lillia and Poppy are the only ones that are proper names. The rest are shortened versions.

Of your list, I like Poppy the best. Most of the others are shortenings of longer names and by pre-choosing the shortening, I feel your future daughter is missing out on the opportunity to use a more formal name should she ever wish to.

Tilly - could be short for Matilda but so could Mattie or Tilda. I know of an Ottilie and Talitha who go by Tilly.
Callie - short for Callista, Calliope, Caroline...
Dottie - I love Dorothy as a full name. Dot, Dora and Dolly are other nicknames.
Lottie - I think Charlotte is a much more flexible name. Lotte is an alternative.