Winter? Thoughts please!

[expectinglittlebear]

Winter as a first name for a girl. What are your thoughts?

Also, do you think as the season spelling 'Winter' or with a y 'Wynter'?

The only one I know is an absolute nightmare. But I vaguely like the name.

No Y though. Misspelling things deliberately isn't great.

No, not keen.

I love the name Winter
Never met one but it's on my list. Really lovely choice

Winter is such a depressing season so it's a no from me

I like it and much prefer the spelling Winter.

Really like it 🥰

Love it. I also really love the names Summer and Autumn. Wouldn’t spell it with y though

I love it and i would spell it with and I.

Nah. Nearly as bad as Summer

I like it with an I and for a winter born baby x

I don’t like it, although I love winter as a season it isn’t a nice sound and I don’t like Winnie as a potential nickname. It’s much better with an i than y though.

It's ridiculous! The poor child

I really like it.
I'm a classical name person generally but I think Winter is really lovely. I can't bear Summer or Autumn though!

It's a pretty name but... OP you know it's a Baddie name don't you?

I know a Winter. It's a lovely name and really suits her. I don't think it's gloomy at all, I think it's quite elegant actually and perfect for a Dec/Jan baby

I'm surprised to find that I quite like it.

I know an adult called Spring. First one I'd met, even though there are loads of Summers and Autumns.

I like it as long as the child is born in winter.

Eira is snow in Welsh if you like cold theme names.

Winter is my second fave season and even I think I wouldn’t want to be named this. Society doesn’t see it as a positive time and those feelings run deep.
Wynter - if I met and adult wynter I would kind of think parents were likely to have been ‘free spirits’ ‘new age’ ‘alternative’ types with possible commune/community living going on AND who assumed their daughter would be too. It’s that last bit which would make this an absolute no from me. She may not be ‘alternative’ at all (and possibly nor are you)

Love it! Was on my list for DD3 but she’s due in September so decided against it.

I think it's fine, but definitely spell it with an 'I' not a 'Y'. Honestly, I don't see how it's any more ridiculous than calling your child Autumn, Wren, Juniper etc. I actually much prefer it to Summer, which I always think sounds a bit twee. In fact the more I think about it, the more I like Winter as a name. I also love pp suggestion of Eira, which sadly my DH vetoed.

Winter in the UK is typically sleet, rain, long dark nights, central heating, scraping ice off the car, being stuck in commuter traffic jams because the roads are bad, freezing cold, slushy snow…the crisp, cold days with hot chocolate and fluffy blankets are few and far between.

Don’t do it OP! And definitely don’t do it with a Y.

I think it is a lovely name and not overused like Summer. I personally prefer Winter as a season – walks in the snow, robins in the garden, hot chocolate and mulled wine. Summer to me is just the gross smell of fake tan, blokes getting their beer bellies out at the beach and rainy BBQs. It's all just personal opinion. And the best is that after being introduced to a person with the name Winter once (or other seasonal name) you will associate the name with the person in that context and not think of the seasonal imagery, either good or bad.

I like it.

You should consider the possibility of Win or Winnie though, and if you hate those, don’t use it.

Winter Anderson. American Horror Story.

Other than that I like it as a name. It's a bit emo/goth and would suit a moody teen

Bleak and dreary.