Honest opinions.. Winifred

[viixie]

I have nowhere else to ask but I quite like the name. We don't actually know what we are having but if it's a girl, we quite like 'Winnie' as a nickname. I'm just not sure if Winifred sounds far too Granny or the 'Fred' sounds too boyish.

Please be honest and brutal (if necessary)

I don't want her to grow up with a name she will hate, thank you

No. Maybe Wendy?

@MikeUniformMike

How does one pronounce Nevaeh?

Nev-a (to rhyme with bay/may/day) ah.

Nev-a-ah. It’s heaven spelt backwards. 🙄 and terrible.

Ah! Winnie!
You could also use ‘Freddie’ if you want to go all posh (Forsyth Saga!)

Horrible. I work in a secondary school and they would get slaughtered with a name that will always be associated with 'the Pooh'

There are thousands of names, pick another.

Forsyte

Horrible. I work in a secondary school and they would get slaughtered with a name that will always be associated with 'the Pooh'

Judging by some of the weird and wonderful names I come across at school nowadays, Winnie is very ordinary and normal in comparison.
Some parents choose bloody awful names.

I have a Winnie, she's at junior school and suits it so much. We get loads of lovely comments on her name and she never gets anyone saying anything unkind to her about her gorgeous name.

I like it. Old fashioned names are so popular, this one a bit less so.
Also like Freddie as a derivative.
What's with the ageist 'old lady' comments? We'll all be old one day.

It can be shortened to Freda which is nice, Win and Winnie are great because of the 'win' bit being positive.

Bad. And if you'd no concerns about it you wouldn't have to ask.
Even the nn is yet another i.e. ending name. Boring.

Please don't- it would be a very difficult name for anyone to carry off. I find it quite ugly sounding - and Winnie is along the same lines as Fanny in my mind!

How about Talwyn? Cornish name :-) Win for short or Winnie?

Really awful. So frumpy and old. NN Win or Winnie. Possibly get teased at school and called Winnie the Pooh

@IdblowJonSnow

I like it. Old fashioned names are so popular, this one a bit less so. Also like Freddie as a derivative. What's with the ageist 'old lady' comments? We'll all be old one day.

I don't think it's ageist for suggest that, say, a 10 year old might not feel thrilled with having what is perceived as a name for grannies.

I mean, my Gran's name was Edna. It's not ageist to say I would have fucking hated being called that because in the 80s I was surrounded by Sarahs and Susans.

I quite like it. It's 'granny chic' but sailing very close to the wind of irredemable frumpiness. Similarly to Geraldine.

I think Winifred is a good adult name. I'd be concerned that Winnie is the noise a horse makes. But then I think of the adorable 'perfect girl' in 'The Wonder Years'.

I think Winnie is cute, but I just don’t care for the sound of Winifred. If you love it, go for it.

As someone who did have a granny name as a ten year old in the 1980s (not Edna, but of a similar era) when I was surrounded by Sarahs and Lisas, I can honestly say that I was never teased or mocked for it. I wasn't delighted with it for the sole reason that I couldn't buy personalised pens and mugs and that sort of tat. But other than that, it had no effect on my life. I think children are far more accepting than we give them credit for. They don't think names are weird because they just accept what people are called and they don't tend to spend their time googling the Office of National Statistics baby names publications, so they don't know how common or rare a name is.

Absolutely awful.

I get the impression this name is very marmite from your responses and to be honest, I think I like it even more now 🤣

Sorry, I really don't like Winifred, sounds really old ladyish but not in a cute way.

I like Winnie though. She would get called Winnie the Pooh, but to be fair, kids will think of something for every name.

It's one of the ugliest names imaginable. I can't imagine inflicting it upon a lovely new baby, I can hear the Winnie the Pooh jokes now.

I like old lady names like Agnes, Betty, Edith

My gran was winifred
She was a miserable old bag so it’s a no from me

I'm old enough to remember when Emily was a really old-fashioned and frumpy name. Charlotte, too.

And not long ago Violet was totally out there.

I bet Winifred will be all the rage in 10 years.

@viixie

I get the impression this name is very marmite from your responses and to be honest, I think I like it even more now 🤣

I'm with you, so glad i have a Winnie now shes 8 and absolutely rocks her name and never ever had any comments or anyone making fun of her at school.

I like it but maybe as a middle name?