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Wow I really like it. Good feckin cat name. Way better than Chloe, which is boring and a bit goopy to me.

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Seeing other people's responses, I must say the "Clot" does NOT jump out at me at all. I totally just see clo+tild(e).

This message was edited 11/24/2021, 8:08 PM

I've always disliked this name, it makes me think of a dirty dish rag smugged in blood & dirt or a scab. I imagine one of the lesser fortunate characters in Les Miz, roaming the streets of Paris, barefoot in tattered clothes & about to die.

This message was edited 11/24/2021, 6:00 PM

I like it, it’s got a pleasant vintage-y vibe.

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Sister: Arabella. Brother: Edmund.

Sounds like it should be the name of a bleach brand. I think it sounds very ugly. At least the way I say it. (CLAW-TILD-EE) I think of it as very vintage though.

The kind of person I picture with the name Clotilde is a 45+ double-process-blonde school administrator who lost the plot ten years ago and walks around with the fakest smile, seeming to somehow think she's good at her job while the school (not merely the student body) hates her.

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If that sounds incredibly specific, that's because it is based on personal experience: this was the name of my high school Dean of Students, and she was about one encounter with a "troubled student" away from fully becoming the female, 2000s version of Principal Vernon from The Breakfast Club. Only once or twice did I hear one of her coworkers call her "Clo," but Clotilde was on the ID on her lanyard.

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So no, I don't have a good association with this name at all. Sorry.

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Clotilde's siblings would likely also have Germanic or heavy names, like:

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Albert (or any "Bert" name)
Bernard
Edward or Edmond / Edmund
Ferdinand
Francis / Frank
Frieda
Gerald
Gertrude
Gudrun
Gunther
Heinrich
Leonard
Linda
Mildred
Norman
Randall
Raymond
Regina
Reginald
Richard
Rosalind
Rosamond / Rosamund
Sigmund / Zigmund
Stewart
Theodore / Theodoric
Walter

This message was edited 11/24/2021, 8:36 AM

In English, I can't get past the clot. In French, it's fine.

I've long loved Clotilde! It's so dramatic.

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Clotilde, Diodore, and Séraphine

Maybe someone in their 30s or 40s with auburn hair wearing blue/teal who speaks Spanish or Portuguese. But they could be younger or older or French instead. I associate it a lot with Cleotilde, because I couldn't see the appeal at all before I ran across a Cleotilde. Now it's kind of like Matilde to me but more orange like clay.

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Before that, hmm...I might have pictured someone over a hundred years old who was raised by French nuns and who attributed their longevity to how they ate buttered bread every morning.

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Clotilde & Angelique
Clotilde & Sapphira
Clotilde & Esperanza
Clotilde & Philomel
Clotilde & Bruna
Clotilde & Beatriz
Clotilde & Amarante
Clotilde & Ludivine
Clotilde & Silvano
Clotilde & Bianca
Clotilde & Cristobal
Clotilde & Capucine
Clotilde & Octave
Clotilde & Zenaida
Clotilde & Nivaldo
Clotilde & Roxana
Clotilde & Rainier
Clotilde & Yolande
Clotilde & Leandre
Clotilde & Minerva*

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This message was edited 11/23/2021, 9:51 PM

It's awful. All I see is clot. I picture a terrifying guttural-voiced woman who probably carries around a riding whip and has pale-blue psycho eyes.

Don't like it at all

Grotesque, clotted is my first thought. I wouldn't, name a brother or sister because, I wouldn't use it.

I really like it, but I don't think I'd use it as a first name, the "clot" is right there, even if it isn't pronounced that way.

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I picture a little French girl.

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Clotilde, Madeleif and Gustave