Baby due tomorrow and still no name! Philippa or Charlotta?

[123annie]

Help! We got a scheduled cesarean for baby girl #2 tomorrow and have still not decided on the name. Big sister is called Isabella, but we never call her by the full name, always just Bella. Now we can’t make up our mind… I like Philippa but not so sure about Pippa (irrespective of what it means in other languages), I do like Lottie but not so sure about Charlotta (I don’t like Charlotte). So ideally I call her Philippa with nickname Lottie;) We do quite like the girls to have a shorter nickname which we would mainly use!

Lottie as a nn for Philippa?
Mm
Scarlet nn Lettie?

Not keen on Charlotta . Your baby - your choice but quite like Phillipa with nn Philly ( which sounds the same a filly / extra points from horse lovers ! )

My dsis is called Philippa and she has never been called Lottie. Pippa, Flips, Pip yes but never Lottie.

I love her make much better than the one I was given. Not keen on Charlotta, she will be correcting people from Charlotte all the time. It's bad enough for my sister that she has to say it's 1 "L" 2 "Ps"

Of those i think Philippa is the nices, but I prefer Carlotta as an alternative. Charlotta is a new one to me and I don't like it as it sounds like a mix up.

well Philippa is ok, but definitely not Charlotta.
Charlotte would be ok.

Out of those, Philippa. Charlotta sounds very odd. Is it actually a name? I think you need either Carlotta or Charlotte? Or Caroline is actually the same name too. That works. You could shorten to Caro or Carrie.

Charlotta would spend a lot of time saying “Charlotte with an a”

Definitely not Charlotta it doesn't sound like a real name.
And I've never heard of Phillips nn Lottie!!?

Not keen on Charlotta.

Lottie as a nickname for Philippa is quite strange and likely to cause confusion.

If you really like Lottie as a diminutive, work backwards from that. Also Lettie, as PP said.

How about Letitia or Lettice shortened to Lettie?

Is it not Carlotta you mean rather than Charlotta? That doesn’t seem like a real name.

Also is it not very same-y to have issbell-A and then Phillip-A/ Charlott-A

Lottie isn’t a nickname for Phillipa either so a bit odd to call the child Phillipa if you plan to call her Lottie. I mean would you not think it odd if someone told you oh this is Christina but her nickname is Izzy. Similar random thing to do.

Don't like Philippa/Pippa. Too prim.

Charlotta would be a good name for one of those scary porcelain dolls. On a person it would be a bit fussy. And people would always mistake it for Charlotte.

Charlotte
Carlotta
Lotta/Lotte
Ottilie

Carlotta would be better than Charlotta, which sounds made up.

I think OP was being tongue in cheek about giving her daughter the full name Phillipa and shortening of Lottie.

Why not just call her Lottie if you like it?

Agree that Charlotta is not good as PP have said. Philippa/Pippa is lovely.

Carlotta
Amelia (Millie)
Aurelia (Lia)
Ophelia (Philly)
Aurora (Rory)
Annabella (Anna)
Camilla (Cami or Millie)

Or just use Lottie if you don't like Charlotte?

I don't think you can do Lottie from Phillipa, it doesn't really work.

Charlotta will just spend her whole life correcting people, so I think you need to go for Carlotta or just call her Lottie?

Not keen on Charlotta and Phillipa I like but calling her Lottie is bizarre.

@HomecomingKween

I think OP was being tongue in cheek about giving her daughter the full name Phillipa and shortening of Lottie.

I doubt it, you see it here all the time, I’ve called my baby Beatrice but nickname will be Fiona

What about Ottilie and Lottie for short?

So ideally I call her Philippa with nickname Lottie;)

Well she did a little winky face so I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt!

Sorry, but I really dislike Philippa.

I think Amelia/Millie is a lovely one that's been shared.

But I would go for Lottie as the actual name if I loved it. It's a name in its own right. My great great grandmother was Lottie

Philippa but not with the nickname ‘Lottie’, surely ‘Pippa’ would be her nickname?