Tilly’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Tilly
Tilly's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Tilly's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Tilly: meaning and origin
Tilly is a diminutive of Matilda, says Behind the Name. Wikipedia says it is generally a variant or diminutive of the Germanic name Matilda. Behind the Name lists Mattie, Maudie, Tilda and Tillie as variants, and traces Matilda through Mathilde and Mechthild in Germanic languages.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name gives Tilda, Tillie, Mattie and Maudie as variants of Tilly. Its long-form relatives include Matilda, Mathilde, Maud and Mafalda. Tilly is already the friendly short form most Matildas choose.
Famous people named Tilly
Tilly Smith, born in 1994, is a British woman who, as a ten-year-old, was credited with saving about 100 beachgoers at Mai Khao Beach in Phuket, Thailand. Wikipedia says she warned them minutes before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami arrived, because she had learned the warning signs in a geography class two weeks earlier.
Is Tilly a popular name?
Tilly never appeared in a Social Security top-200 decade table, from the 1880s to the 2010s. Behind the Name’s US chart has it in the top 1,000 only twice, at 952nd in 2024 and 884th in 2025, so it is a new arrival rather than an old favorite.
Tilly trivia
Wikipedia’s list of Tillys includes Tilly Aston, a blind Australian writer and teacher who lived from 1873 to 1947, and Tilly Edinger, a German-American paleontologist who founded paleoneurology. It also lists Tilly Losch, an Austrian dancer and painter, and Tilly Bagshawe, a British writer. Behind the Name also lists Tilly with the variants Tilda and Tillie, so a Tilly has plenty of spelling options to choose from. Tilly Smith’s story is often told as a reminder that a school lesson can matter in real life.
Gift ideas that suit a Tilly
- For a young scientist. A notebook for geography facts and nature notes.
- For a writer. A journal for stories, like the Australian author Tilly Aston.
- For a Matilda fan. A diary for book-club notes and quotes.
- For Christmas. A cheerful stocking-stuffer for a cheerful name.
How Tilly can use it
Any Tilly, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Tilly can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Tilly’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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