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I've always thought the "-fred" part was weird for a girl, and it's kind of stuffy. I can't really seem to warm up to it, though I like that it's strong and dignified.

LOVE

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I adore it. It’s vintage and underrated with a dash of spunk. I love the nickname Winnie, too.

Love it.

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It has been one of my very fave names for many years.

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It's beautiful to pronounce, beautiful to look at, it's just beautiful overall.

Adore

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It’s been among my favorite female names for years. I love that it’s whimsical yet grounded.

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I LOVE the name Winifred. If I ever have a daughter, I've gotten my husband to agree to Cordelia, but I haven't been able to get him on board with Winifred if we ever had a second daughter. I think Cordelia & Winifred is just the sweetest sister set. I think Winnie is cute, but I also like Fred/Freddie. It's nice when names have options. And of course, I love the full name.

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.

The Fred part of the name makes me not like it. An alternative I can think of would be Gwendolyn.

Mixed. I knew a dear little Dachshund named Winifred and known as Winnie; she belonged to a school friend and neighbour, and we used to bath her, take her for walks and then reward ourselves with hot chocolate. So far, so good: the Physical Science teacher I had for three years of high school, also a Winifred known as Winnie (strictly behind her back) was a howling disaster. She was a poor teacher; she seemed not to understand her subject; to mask these shortcomings, she was a disciplinarian second to none and almost everyone was honestly afraid of her. I wasn't; I despised her too much; but she didn't leave me with much affection for her name.

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Then, there is the sad fact that Winnie rhymes with Minnie. On the whole, it's a No.

It's nice! It gives me kind of a whimsical vibe, probably from reading Tuck Everlasting in fifth grade and then seeing the movie later on. (one of the characters' names was Winifred "Winnie") I agree with cnmuffintops that Winnie is cute as a nickname.

I like it. I don't like it as much as I used to, but I still have an appreciation for it. I saw it as more of a youthful name, but it works on adults too. Winnie and Freddi are cute nicknames.