Phoebe or Matilda?

[Aixenprov]

What's your preference?

Pheobe

Matilda - love all the variations too of the name

Matilda by far.

Phoebe will get misspelled, as above.

Matilda, although there are an awful lot of them.. but Phoebe is also shooting up. Certainly wouldn’t worry about Phoebe being misspelt, it’s a well known name even before the surge in popularity.

Matilda

Matilda

I've got a Matilda,shes a teenager now and she's the only Matilda in her year. I think maybe it's got a lot more popular since. I still adore her name all these years later. Her friends call her Mattie.

I think Phoebe is very pretty too
Phoebe Matilda or Matilda Phoebe could work?

Phoebe!

Matilda is awful, like Brenda or Glenda, don't understand the love.

Phoenix but Matilda is nice too

^ Phoebe

I love Phoebe.

Matilda is nice but they are everywhere where I live. I always joke with 3 year old DD that she makes friends with a Matilda wherever she goes

I absolutely adore the name Phoebe I think it works for all ages and is a classic. Although the same is true for Matilda and I think Tillie is a lovely nickname, I prefer it as a nickname for Natalie though. Both lovely names OP you can’t go wrong!

We have a Matilda who goes by Tilly and we love it.

My friend has a Phoebe but I don't know of any others!

Phoebe

Love both

weirdly there's not any child with either name at the whole of our local school or in any baby groups

Tilly is better than Mattie. That really is awful. But you'd have to get ahead of the nick name by telling people it's tilly not mattie.

I'm sure the posters dd would say if she didn't like the Mattie variation. We name our kids but after a certain age, they choose the nickname.

I really love both, I don’t think you can go wrong! Maybe just see which she looks like?

Also to add, I’ve got three young children and haven’t come across either! So I’m surprised pp’s saying Matilda’s are everywhere. But I suppose it’s regional, I think you can check name popularity based on where you live?

I think Matilda is very popular in the SE

I'm in Scotland so neither are particularly popular here! I'm a secondary school teacher and there is not one Phoebe or Matilda in the ~1500 pupil school. Haven't met any at my daughter's baby classes either over the last 18 months

Phoebe will get Pheebs for a nickname.

Phoebe. Better on a grown woman.

Neither, but if I had to choose it would be Phoebe.