Seren or Winter

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First dd. Stuck between these 2. Tia.

I loathe Seren. Sounds like some kind of cleaning product. But I can see I’m outnumbered! I strongly considered Winter for one of our DC, think it’s beautiful and have never met one.

Seren is lovely

Wouldn’t use Winter as a first name

When are you due? If it's not winter then I wouldn't choose that. I love Seren.

Love both. Seren Winter is a beautiful name.

I'd choose Seren. It's a pretty name even if often mispronounced as 'Serrun'. It has a nice meaning too.

How is Seren supposed to be pronounced?
Like Erin with a S in front (seh- rin)
Or like the suh- wren (like the bird?)

Seren, although Serena is lovely too. Winter is fine as a middle name.

People don’t pronounce Seren properly. It’s also the Dawn of the times, and I think it’ll date badly. There are worse names out there, though. I quite like Winter, but I wouldn’t actually use it.

While I'm not a fluent Welsh speaker, I've always pronounced it as it's spelt - as I think the letter E is pronounced with an "eh" sound in Welsh, so as "Seh - rehn".

Although I suppose similar Serena is more classic, I think Seren is fairly well known outside Wales, so I personally don't think you have to be Welsh to use it OP.

Sorry that was meant to be for YouBoggleMyMind about not needing to be being Welsh imo to use Seren, not OP.

Seren is beautiful.

Love Seren fab name

Seren x

@IamnotwhouthinkIam

While I'm not a fluent Welsh speaker, I've always pronounced it as it's spelt - as I think the letter E is pronounced with an "eh" sound in Welsh, so as "Seh - rehn".

Although I suppose similar Serena is more classic, I think Seren is fairly well known outside Wales, so I personally don't think you have to be Welsh to use it OP.

Your pronunciation is correct, the en in Seren is pronounced like the en in hen, pen and wren. Same 'eh' sound in the first e as well as you said.

I don't think you need to be Welsh to use Seren. Like I said up thread, it is also used as a shortened form of Serenity, rather than as a Welsh name in its own right. I think it is lovely.

Thanks for letting us know @CaffiSaliMali - I've only just started beginners Welsh and haven't personally met any Seren's (only heard the name, but pronounced by English speakers so it seems to vary a bit)!