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This is a name I used to despise. When I was a kid, I thought of Winifred as the quintessential "old, stuffy, repressed Victorian" name - not even the movie Tuck Everlasting could change my opinion, mostly because I also hated Winnie.

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My opinion of the name didn't change until I finally watched the TV show "Angel," in college. I didn't watch it during its original run because... well, it's a ludicrous to think now, but I used to be terrified of vampires. (Now it's zombies I can't deal with, when I used to be all right with zombie movies.) So I finally watched "Angel" (and by extension "Buffy"), and Amy Acker's character Winifred "Fred" Burkle is iconic. I think having her be called Fred jazzed the name up in my mind and let it not be so stale.

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Now I really like that Winifred is a name of the "old school" - that's it's long and refined without being too soft. My preferred nickname is Win rather than Fred, though. And I still hate Winnie.

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