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Do you prefer Ivy or Winter for a girl?

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NameChanged15729 · 09/12/2021 14:36

Dd2 is due January and agreeing on a name has become difficult! Dh has vetoed all my suggestions and these are the only two names left.
One is an absolute love of mine and the other is dh’s favourite. What would you go for?

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WinterDeWinter · 09/12/2021 23:19

DramaAlpaca · 09/12/2021 23:19

I quite like Ivy.

I don't like Winter at all, it's not an attractive name and lends itself to the hideous Winnie as a diminutive. Just no.

LitCrit · 09/12/2021 23:15

I dunno @ErrolTheDragon it’s insanely decadent and fin de siecle.

Pattygonia · 09/12/2021 23:13

Have you thought of Eira from the welsh for snow?

JaninaDuszejko · 09/12/2021 23:11

Winter is not a name so Ivy has it. What about January? Maybe not if your surname is Jones though.

shiningstar2 · 09/12/2021 23:09

Ivy.

WeasilyPleased · 09/12/2021 23:03

Winter nn Winnie.

Palosverdesblue · 09/12/2021 20:24

Or we have a Winter Ivy hanging basket ....

timoteigirl · 09/12/2021 20:20

It depends on your family name. To me Ivy is a Goth name.

PlainJane1000 · 09/12/2021 19:33

I prefer Ivy.
Winter Ivy sounds to me like a variant of the Ivy plant. we have winter ivy growing on the wall

ErrolTheDragon · 09/12/2021 19:04

@LitCrit

I don't usually like things-turned-into names but I think Winter is beautiful. Ivy has got a retro feel which is nice now but might feel a bit 'of the moment' later. Winter is so strong and that really mitigates the potential 'too frivolous to be a lawyer' factor that people always mention on here . Actor, author, stateswoman - works with all.

The only thing I would say is that if you have an unusually glam surname like de Havilland it might be a bit de trop.

It'd definitely be de trop if you were Mrs de Winter - you'd have to conceal your forename forever.

stopringingme · 09/12/2021 18:59

Ivy

LitCrit · 09/12/2021 18:53

The only thing I would say is that if you have an unusually glam surname like de Havilland it might be a bit de trop.

Chakraleaf · 09/12/2021 18:35

Ivy

EnidFrighten · 09/12/2021 18:33

Ivy. I wanted to call DD it because I liked the idea of her being determined and tough and climbing her way through life.

Winter sounds a bit mewly and scrawny to me.

Bluntness100 · 09/12/2021 18:27

I can’t believe anyone has actually recommended calling a child winter ivy, wtf, 🤣

JuneOsborne · 09/12/2021 18:17

Winter is really beautiful! Winnie or Tia for nicknames!

gersteddybears · 09/12/2021 18:15

Winter. I always think of poison ivy when I hear ivy.

TwinklyBranch · 09/12/2021 18:12

Ivy. Winter is ridiculous! And as for Winter Ivy, don't do that to the poor lass.

KristinAmandaThomas · 09/12/2021 18:09

Winter.

Because as lovely as Ivy is, I’d always have fear that if she ever said anything mean she’d be nicknamed Poison Ivy.

Daisydoesnt · 09/12/2021 18:06

Whatever you do OP don’t use BOTH names - Ivy Winter is a US drag Queen. A very nice drag queen (she won miss congeniality) but there’s thing where whenever anyone says her name they say it in a really high pitched, annoying voice.

Whenigrowupiwanttobea · 09/12/2021 18:02

Winter conjures up images of crisp snow, glowing fires, hope and expectation for me! As opposed to Summer which means prickly heat and sunburn with hay-fever!!!

AnFiaRuaNua · 09/12/2021 18:00

I like Winter, Win for short is lovely.
Ivy an ugly sound imo.
I like Nollaig and Noelle as well

Whenigrowupiwanttobea · 09/12/2021 18:00

Love Winter! And Winter-Ivy has a beautiful ring to it!!!!

TotoBay · 09/12/2021 17:59

Ivy

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