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I'm not sure. When I was taking my class on 20th century germany I somehow encountered this name and fell a little in love with it, but as I repeated it to myself I couldn't really justify it. For one thing I felt like my love of the name was a little bit perverse and almost sexual (???) and for another there was no way I could say it in an American accent. So for me it is difficult to imagine it on a non-German. I ended up naming a character Werner; he was German and named after one of his uncles, which is why he had such an awkward dated name despite being like 16.

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Since then I've sort of gone off it, enough to where it makes me want to not return to the story he was in. Meh.

Very German, very old-mannish, very unattractive, very nerdy.

More like too dated and too ugly ;) Sorry, not a fan of Werner.

This message was edited 1/11/2010, 11:58 AM

I don't know if Werner is stereotypically German, but to me, it is a quintessentially German name. Oh, and it also reminds me of wiener. ;-)

To me, it does seem too stereotypically German. Maybe that's because there was a German restaurant that my parents frequented for years, called Werner's Lake Edge. I can't imagine it on a non-German.

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It reminds me of "weiner" and "weiner", in addition to meaning a frankfurter, is also a slang term for the male member. It's a word I've always hated.

It's not bad - if pronounced the German way, unlikely here, it would resemble Vernon, which seems to have gone into abeyance!