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Thoughts on seasons for names….

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Darlyrey · 30/10/2025 11:28

Very very early days. Don’t even know the sex of baby but;

What’s your take on seasons used as first names? Ie
Winter (for a boy)
Autumn (for a girl)
Summer (for a girl)

and the connotations for each name?

thank you

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DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 17:41

@fairycupcakes , I think it sounds like a cheap scented candle.

fairycupcakes · 30/10/2025 17:37

I think they are lovely! All girl’s names imo though. I really like Winter ❄️ I know of a little one called Winter Lily and I think that is so lovely!

BoleynMemories13 · 30/10/2025 17:29

Hussaini · 30/10/2025 16:43

Spring could also be the metal coily thing. Like the springs in a mattress. Terrible lol

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Definitely terrible. I'm not disagreeing. Any more terrible than Winter (or, shudder, Wynter) though? There's really not much in it imo!

RightOnTheEdge · 30/10/2025 16:51

I like them all. There is a girl called Winter in my kids' school and she has white-blonde hair and it really suits her.
I think Winter would suit a boy as well.

Hussaini · 30/10/2025 16:43

BoleynMemories13 · 30/10/2025 12:14

I've only known Winter to be used for girls. I don't like it for either, but definitely not for a boy.

Summer is pretty enough. I'm not mad on seasonal names, but see it as no different to month names (April, May, June).

I'm not a fan of Autumn, as I don't find it particularly pretty, but have heard it often enough now to accept it as a name. Winter really isn't for me though. It just sounds so cold (pardon the pun 😂 ).

Funny how Spring has never caught on. It's weird where some people draw the line. If Winter is acceptable as a name (for some), why not Spring?

Spring could also be the metal coily thing. Like the springs in a mattress. Terrible lol

Hussaini · 30/10/2025 16:41

I only like summer

HollyGolightly4 · 30/10/2025 16:32

Fair point @DuchessOfNarcissex!

DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 16:30

@HollyGolightly4 ,I don't believe you hate to do it. You're doing it with glee.

HollyGolightly4 · 30/10/2025 16:25

DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 12:57

@Darlyrey I don't like names that are nouns or adjectives.

Errrrrm I hate to break it to you, all names are nouns 🤣

BoleynMemories13 · 30/10/2025 16:22

DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 15:26

@BoleynMemories13 , I think they're using it because they like it, not necessarily because of the meaning or month.

That may be (ooh, see what I did there? 😎 )

I said people are much more likely to associate it with the month, rather than the name Mary. I didn't say people were picking it because of the month.

LeopardsANeutral · 30/10/2025 16:09

I absolutely love Winter! But I see it as a girls name, it wouldn't seem right (to me) on a boy. We would've called DD Winter, but it didn't sound right with the surname. I like Autumn for a girl too. I don't particularly like Summer as much, but it's inoffensive.

JudgeBread · 30/10/2025 16:07

I don't like them. They always seem a bit... Harry Potter fanfic. Here's my OC, Slytherin prefect Winter Wildsmith. Her patronus is an arctic fox.

Just what comes to mind 🙃

Floundering66 · 30/10/2025 16:03

I don’t like them. I don’t like names that end in “er”, I live in a common part of London and the pronunciation is always awful … “Wintaaaa” 🤪

DPotter · 30/10/2025 15:53

VioletMatilda · 30/10/2025 15:45

I also know a girl whose name doesn't match the season she was born in, but does match the season she was conceived in.

If Summer was born in April, assuming she wasn't premature, she'd have been conceived in July.

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This is true - hadn't thought of that

VioletMatilda · 30/10/2025 15:45

DPotter · 30/10/2025 15:29

knew a little girl called Summer whose birthday was in April - felt wrong somehow

I also know a girl whose name doesn't match the season she was born in, but does match the season she was conceived in.

If Summer was born in April, assuming she wasn't premature, she'd have been conceived in July.

purpleygrey · 30/10/2025 15:31

I know a girl called Wynter. (Yes, spelt like that) born in August !

RandomUsernameHere · 30/10/2025 15:30

I like Winter, the other two sound very weak.

DPotter · 30/10/2025 15:29

knew a little girl called Summer whose birthday was in April - felt wrong somehow

DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 15:26

@BoleynMemories13 , I think they're using it because they like it, not necessarily because of the meaning or month.

BoleynMemories13 · 30/10/2025 15:06

DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 12:39

@BoleynMemories13 , May is a diminutive of Mary as well as a month's name.

I don't really like seasonal names. They seem a bit like they've been chosen for a reason not because the parents liked the name.
The non-obvious ones like Carol or Holly are not too bad, but I wouldn't want to be a Noella, April or Winter.

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I can guarantee very very few people who pick May do it to honour their Great Granny Mary though. May is a name in it's own right and 99.9% of people will associate it with the month of the exact same name, rather than the name Mary.

Wardrobemarker · 30/10/2025 14:48

I love seasonal names too op and called my DD after the season she born in.

Darragon · 30/10/2025 14:39

Poor Spring never gets chosen though. 😂

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Darlyrey · 30/10/2025 14:32

Interesting opinions! Personally I absolutely love seasons as names and the feedback which is a little negative hadn’t put me off.
i don’t think these choices I’ve suggested are too divisive

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Darlyrey · 30/10/2025 14:30

DuchessOfNarcissex · 30/10/2025 12:57

@Darlyrey I don't like names that are nouns or adjectives.

Very interesting as I’m the opposite!

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noramoo · 30/10/2025 14:28

I like them all OP, possibly a bit less keen on Autumn as it doesn't sound as much like a name to me for some reason

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