Thoughts on Winifred?

[ScarletOak]

I really like it, which Winnie as a nickname.

What do you think?

No. It's not horrendous, but no. It sounds like beige comfy slacks to me, and who wants them when they could have something beautiful?

I really really wanted my daughter to be called Winifred but have a long surname beginning with W and it would have sounded awful. Winifred is my grandmothers name.

My grandmother is a Winifred. Story goes she was the fifth child, her grandmother came to help her mother and got charged with registering the birth and picking a name! (I'm guessing that my poor great grandmother had pnd - being unable to muster the energy to name your daughter seems extreme) Anyway Great great granny picked her own name - Winifred - everyone else hated it. My grandmother never forgave her mother.

Down the pub my great-grandfather was asked what they had got (boy or girl) he replied 'Another Mary' My grandmother was always and still is called Mary.

quite cute it makes me think of a teddy cos of winnie the pooh, so it would be cute for a baby, i dont know whether embarrasing as they grow up though, but these days a lot of people are using old fashioned names so might just fit in?

one of daughters middle names... love it.

I love it Dh's gran was Winni (not Winnifred) and I wanted to use it as a mn for one of our girls but dh said no

Prefer Gwyneth, with nn Winnie.

I worked with a Winifred, known as Freda. She was lovely and seemed happy with her name. My dd has Frieda as a middle name after my grandmother, although she didn't like it much, mainly because she felt it reminded people that she was half German, which wasn't great during the War.

Not keen - sorry.

love and am considering although my other daughter hates it. She is 12 and has an old lady name but its now in vogue which she doesnt understand will probably happen with Winifred/Winnie too

Just no. The fact that it has 'fred' in it doesn't help either.

Around the turn of the last century my great-grandmother had three daughters and she named them Clara, Lily and Winifred.

Both Clara and Lily are now back in fashion, because now the old-lady association has faded a bit people can appreciate they are both pretty names.

Winifred however is not, and I'd suggest there's a reason for that. Even Gladys or Ermintrude would be better, and that's saying something!

(poor old Auntie Winnie)

Think it's an awful name. Here in Ireland it's a name that's very common among our travelling gypsies - lots and lots of Winnie's. I agree that it's an old woman's name that shouldn't be revived and certainly doesn't evoke images of a beautiful looking girl or woman in the way other names do.

I thought it is a boys' name. I have an uncle called Winfred. Don't like it for either sex though.

I have a great aunt Winnie (Winifred, Win), although she died long before I was born. I've only ever seen photos of her, but she looked extremely chic, in an Ethel from Just William sort of way. Her sister, my grandmother, was an Isobel. They were both very glamourous, so it has positive associations for me.

I love Winifred, nn WInnie or Freddie. I also like Gwendolen with the nn Winnie.

But don't listen to me, cause I also love Beryl, Gertrude, Mildred, Ethel and Shirley

Going agaist the trend, I like Winifred but not Winnie.

i like "Winifred" not "winnie"

Winifred is a pretty and intelligent girls name. She sounds like captain of the netball team, school rep, talented musician, artist whatever, straight A student on her way to oxbridge.

My grandma lives in a village called Winfrith. I think that could be a pretty girl's name.

Love Winifred though

Vile name, sorry.

Wasn't Winifred the head girl in the St Clare's series?

I love Winnie.

I really like Winfreda (for the welsh saint, Italian version ?)

But not that keen on Winifred