What do you think of Matilda?

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Hi - just curious really, do you think that Matilda or Tilly is a middle class kind of name?? we are not 'posh' by any means but i really do like the name although a few people have mentioned that it's a name they associate with private school and pony riding iyswim (that was my sister )

TIA x Jo

I love Matilda/Tilly. At a push with Matilda, I think of 'Waltzing Matilda' so if anything it brings up Australian connotations!

Also, what does it matter if people associate it with private school and ponies? Better than associating it with prisons, girl gangs or hard-core drug dealers!!

I like and wouldn't consider it a pony club kind of name.

I think of it as very middle class, certainly - but mostly I think of the Hilaire Belloc poem ttp://www.poetry-archive.com/b/matilda.html

It was in my top 5 choices for DS if he had been a girl!

We were going to shorten to Tilly or Mattie though...

Love it. If I have dd3 then it's top 5.

Lovely. Think it's slightly on the posh side, but in a good way!

I don't like it, sorry

don't like it. remember books/tv series as a child Matilda the teenage witch.

Love it!! If we have a girl, it will be her middle name, only because she will already have a family member with the first name Matilda

A lovely choice

I like it very much. No connotations of poshness to me. Wouldn't choose it myself as there are so many Matildas around here tho'.

It was my grandmother's middle name (she would be 100 now if she was still alive). She was a primary school teacher in a very rural part of Illinois, so not much help in determining poshness!

I love the name Matilda. I don't think of it as being 'private school' or 'pony club'. It is popular where we live which may or may not bother you.

I like it - my best friend called her DD1 Matilda.

I don't think of it as being particularly middle class - my first asociation, being Antipodean, is to think of Waltzing Matilda, but that was soon forgotten.

I'd totally forgotten about the Hilaire Belloc poem until I mentioned her name to my Dad and he recalled it. But children own their own names after not too much time at all.

I know two Matildas - one is 18 mths and the other is nearly 4. They're neither of them terribly posh.

However, because of Hillaire Belloc, I'm not really very keen on the name. www.poetry-archive.com/b/matilda.html

it's delightful

I have a Matilda (Tilly). She's not at private school (although both DH and I went) but she does like ponies so we will be doing riding lessons in due course - mostly so that I have an excuse to get back into horses!!

I'm obviously biased towards it. Although there are quite a lot of them in our true blue, very MC corner of SE England.....

I love it. Was top of my shortlist should DS have been a girl and DP didn't like it. Luckily, DS was a boy...

Not keen on Tilly though.

I LOVE it! Currently in my top spot

I agree with borntofolk though - don't liike Tilly.

I love it and it is on my shortlist if I ever have #2. I like Tilly as nn.

I love it.
I have one.
She is at private school but does not have a pony.
It's a fab name for a small girl!
Actually there is another Matilda in my Matilda's year and they both have labradoodle dogs! So no pony, just bonkers mutts

I like it, if anything it makes me think of the Roald Dahl book, which is no bad thing!