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Winter- is this a good name?

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hennypennyhen · 14/10/2009 14:36

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?

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colditz · 14/10/2009 14:37

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

LowLevelWhingeing · 14/10/2009 14:37

IMVHO it's a great name for a season.

sagan · 14/10/2009 14:38

Nope

colditz · 14/10/2009 14:38

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

MrsBadger · 14/10/2009 14:38

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

kittywise · 14/10/2009 14:38

no, it's a rubbish name

purlease · 14/10/2009 14:38

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.

Pinkjenny · 14/10/2009 14:38

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

FlightAttendant · 14/10/2009 14:39

I actually think it is gorgeous.

Sorry everyone!

choppychopster · 14/10/2009 14:39

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

FlightAttendant · 14/10/2009 14:40

I would draw the line at'Spring'.

seeker · 14/10/2009 14:42

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

Winter is bonkers.

LowLevelWhingeing · 14/10/2009 14:43

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

GrimmaTheNome · 14/10/2009 14:43

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

FlightAttendant · 14/10/2009 14:46

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

just make sure middle name is not Vomiting.

PuppyMonkey · 14/10/2009 14:46

It's a bit cold, is Winter.

nicefleece · 14/10/2009 14:47

pants name

MrsBadger · 14/10/2009 14:47

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

PestoPumpkinMonster · 14/10/2009 14:48

Hope her surname isn't Green

ShinyAndNew · 14/10/2009 14:50

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.

BalloonSlayer · 14/10/2009 14:50
  • well you just don't change your name, then, do you?

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

GrimmaTheNome · 14/10/2009 14:52
Grin
mummydarlingsausage · 14/10/2009 14:55

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

MrsVik · 14/10/2009 15:17

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.

OrmIrian · 14/10/2009 15:18

Oh I quite like that.

And I'm not normally one for odd names