Winter- is this a good name?

[hennypennyhen]

A friend of mine asked me what I thought of this as a potential name for her expected little girl. I said I wasn't sure for a first name but thought it could work really well as a middle name. What do other people think?

[colditz]

No, it's not a good name. It's a silly name.

[LowLevelWhingeing]

IMVHO it's a great name for a season.

[sagan]

Nope

[colditz]

It's the kind of name a nine year old girl who has been watching too much American TV would cook up.

[MrsBadger]

No

as a a middle name it will sneak past as people will think it is her mother's/grandmother's maiden surname or something

but as a first name, no

[kittywise]

no, it's a rubbish name

[purlease]

don't like it. It is more like a surname. The only season I think works as a name is Summer and I don't particularly like that either.

[Pinkjenny]

LowLevelWhinging - I have to apologise, I have been using your nn a lot to describe dd lately. Am I breaching copyright?

[FlightAttendant]

I actually think it is gorgeous.

Sorry everyone!

[choppychopster]

There is a Winter at DD's nursery. I quite like it as a name, but DH thinks that it's odd.

[FlightAttendant]

I would draw the line at'Spring'.

[seeker]

My dd has a friend called Autumn, and people keep calling her Summer by mistake!

Winter is bonkers.

[LowLevelWhingeing]

Don't worry Pink, I'm sure we can come to some kind of amicable out of court settlement

[GrimmaTheNome]

No. And if the girl married she could end up as something truly risible like Winter Boot.

[FlightAttendant]

...or Winter Vomiting Disease. That's unlikely though I guess.

just make sure middle name is not Vomiting.

[PuppyMonkey]

It's a bit cold, is Winter.

[nicefleece]

pants name

[MrsBadger]

or Winter Winter...

I always worry about that with surnames-as-first-names imagine if Cameron Diaz had married David Cameron
or Reece Witherspoon had married Griff Rhys-Jones

[PestoPumpkinMonster]

Hope her surname isn't Green

[ShinyAndNew]

I thinks its quite funky as a name. I'm not sure I would use it though. I'd be worried about the child being bullied at school.

[BalloonSlayer]

• well you just don't change your name, then, do you?

As my friend Jenny Smith didn't when she married Frank Talia.

[GrimmaTheNome]

[mummydarlingsausage]

i think it would suit a boy better. reminds me of major winters in band of brothers - though it was his surname.

[MrsVik]

As a middle name I like it - I think there's a lot more flexibility to be had in middle names than in first names.

[OrmIrian]

Oh I quite like that.

And I'm not normally one for odd names