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Do you prefer Ivy or Winter for a girl?

138 replies

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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Palosverdesblue · 09/12/2021 17:59

I love winter - my favourite season. Not negative for everyone!

Whitewolf2 · 09/12/2021 17:56

Ivy. I just don’t get seasons as names (or days or months, Sunday for example is not a name!)

Deadringer · 09/12/2021 17:49

Winter is awful. I am trying to imagine being called Winter and what springs to mind is dark, cold, wet, dreary, i would hate to be saddled with a name that has those connotations. Ivy is fine, Ivy Winter could work.

liveforsummer · 09/12/2021 17:45

Ivy or as suggested Holly or Robyn. Sorry Winter isn't a great name if it's even a name at all.

GucciBear · 09/12/2021 17:40

Ivy. Winter is a season.

ErrolTheDragon · 09/12/2021 17:39

@Bluntness100

Ember is a lovely girls name.
As in dying fire? Or is it for people born in the four -ember months?Confused Sounds like someone saying Amber with a far-back accent.
WaitinginVain · 09/12/2021 17:38

Winter is beautiful. I don't personally like Ivy but they do sound quite nice together.

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 09/12/2021 17:38

Winter as a given name makes me think of a Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/Box of Delights/Green Knowe sparkly and frosty fictional winter, rather than a soggy and grey real winter.

I prefer it to Ivy which I think is quite a plain name. And super popular.

trumpisagit · 09/12/2021 17:37

I really think Winter is not a great name to have to carry. It's cold, dark and has negative connotations for many people.
I love Summer as a name.
Ivy is lovely.

KirstenBlest · 09/12/2021 17:37

@Bluntness100, Ivy Brennan , Gail's MIL. Ivy is not dated though - it's the 6th most popular name in England & Wales

RightOnTheEdge · 09/12/2021 17:36

I like both names.
Ivy Winter better than Winter Ivy though.

Bluntness100 · 09/12/2021 17:33

Ember is a lovely girls name.

Bluntness100 · 09/12/2021 17:32

Oh and poison ivy, it is just not a great name.

PatterPaws · 09/12/2021 17:32

Ivy

Palosverdesblue · 09/12/2021 17:31

I like Winter more than Ivy. I don't like Winter Ivy together.

Bluntness100 · 09/12/2021 17:31

Neither for me either, and ivy is quite dated and reminds me of the character in coronation street. And winter isn’t really a positive name.

MrsColinRobinson · 09/12/2021 17:31

Ivy. Is Winter a name?

Zandathepanda · 09/12/2021 17:28

If she’s Winter everyone will shorten it to Winny which may have people neighing (happened to DD’s friend)

HeadlessGummyBears · 09/12/2021 17:28

Both are great! Ivy can be either a first or a middle name, whereas Winter would be a good middle name with a more classical first name.

ThrobbingToothacheOfTheMind · 09/12/2021 17:25

You're naming a human being, not a Yankee candle. Neither name is nice.

Antiqueanniesmagiclanternshow · 09/12/2021 17:17

Both awful, sorry

PatchworkElmer · 09/12/2021 17:17

Ivy

portandchocolate · 09/12/2021 17:16

Winter isn't really a name to me and I'd be expecting Winnie before long..

Ivy is lovely though

riromay · 09/12/2021 17:14

I actually think that Ivy winter sounds gorgeous

KirstenBlest · 09/12/2021 16:41

I'm not keen on either but Ivy is a lot better than Winter