Winter- is this a good name?

[hennypennyhen]

A friend of mine asked me what I thought of this as a potential name for her expected little girl. I said I wasn't sure for a first name but thought it could work really well as a middle name. What do other people think?

No, it's not a good name. It's a silly name.

IMVHO it's a great name for a season.

Nope

It's the kind of name a nine year old girl who has been watching too much American TV would cook up.

No

as a a middle name it will sneak past as people will think it is her mother's/grandmother's maiden surname or something

but as a first name, no

no, it's a rubbish name

don't like it. It is more like a surname. The only season I think works as a name is Summer and I don't particularly like that either.

LowLevelWhinging - I have to apologise, I have been using your nn a lot to describe dd lately. Am I breaching copyright?

I actually think it is gorgeous.

Sorry everyone!

There is a Winter at DD's nursery. I quite like it as a name, but DH thinks that it's odd.

I would draw the line at'Spring'.

My dd has a friend called Autumn, and people keep calling her Summer by mistake!

Winter is bonkers.

Don't worry Pink, I'm sure we can come to some kind of amicable out of court settlement

No. And if the girl married she could end up as something truly risible like Winter Boot.

...or Winter Vomiting Disease. That's unlikely though I guess.

just make sure middle name is not Vomiting.

It's a bit cold, is Winter.

pants name

or Winter Winter...

I always worry about that with surnames-as-first-names imagine if Cameron Diaz had married David Cameron
or Reece Witherspoon had married Griff Rhys-Jones

Hope her surname isn't Green

I thinks its quite funky as a name. I'm not sure I would use it though. I'd be worried about the child being bullied at school.

• well you just don't change your name, then, do you?

As my friend Jenny Smith didn't when she married Frank Talia.

i think it would suit a boy better. reminds me of major winters in band of brothers - though it was his surname.

As a middle name I like it - I think there's a lot more flexibility to be had in middle names than in first names.

Oh I quite like that.

And I'm not normally one for odd names