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[Opinions] Matilda
What are your opinions on Matilda? Do you like Lily, Eliana and Matilda as a sibset?
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I like Matilda a lot; as nns I like Tillie and Tilda but not Mattie or Matt.Lily and Eliana are names I've never enjoyed at all, so I don't think they would make a good sibset with Matilda. Especially if Matilda would be known as Tillie - Tillie and Lily sound like Dr Seuss characters.
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Il and Li are a bit close. Eliana is Hebrew, Lily is botanical, and Matilda is different.Eliana- Lana, Elin, Elly, Lian, Iana, ElainMatilda- Tilda, Tia, Millie, Mattie, Maddie
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I like Matilda. Its classy and feminine and I think it ages well.
I wouldn't put Lily and Matilda together because Tilly is short for Matilda and you can't have Lily and Tilly!
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Really like Matilda and I like the sibset but Eliana doesn't quite fit in for me.
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Love it!
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Lily isn't so overused and with the nickname Tilly for Matilda I don't think it works together in a sibset. Eliana is a completely different style, so I also don't think it works with that name. I do love Matilda, though.
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I wouldn't call her Tilly, I don't care for that nickname very much at all.
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Yes, but you can't really decide what she will ultimately go by. What if she likes to be called Tilly? What if friends or family call her Tilly and it sticks?
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Then I just won't care :) She can call herself Tilly if she likes. I doubt that this will happen because where I live Tilly isn't really used and I think most of my friends and family would consider that nickname to be unintuitive.I first heard of Tilly on Gordon Ramsey's daughter, before that I just never thought about it as a nickname option. Matilda just never seemed like a name that would need a nickname to me. It rolls off the tongue and works so well on its own. I've met a few Matildas and they were always just Matilda. The most intuitive nickname to me would be Mattie. Tilly seems to be somewhat fashionable in England but where I live it is pretty much unheard of and seems a bit odd along the lines of Mamie or Myrtie it just isn't very fashionable or attractive.Of course that could change but I doubt it. It just doesn't work well in the language we speak here. I also sort of doubt that she would choose a nickname that is so close to her sister's name. But if it happens it's okay. I watched Little House on the Prairie growing up and only realized many years later that the names of two of the Ingalls sisters, Mary and Carrie, are actually way too close :P
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Matilda is great, especially with the nn Tilly. I love those names together for siblings.
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I think Matilda is a great name. I don't think that it works with Lily and Eliana though. Matilda is a strong name and Lily and Eliana feel weak by comparison.
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Lots of people like Matilda, but I don't. I do feel that I'm not keeping up with the times in persisting to dislike it, but I still do. I dislike it for no other reason than that I think it's just butt-ugly. Tillie is butt-ugly too. The only Matilda I've ever known, a very elderly woman, went by Til, and that also is butt-ugly.
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I wouldn't say I like Matilda; I'd say that I love Matilda. Out of Lily, Eliana, and Matilda, I only like Matilda, so I'd say no; the others are too vapid, flimsy, and do not match Matilda's substance.I love Tilda as a nickname.
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