I’ve picked an ugly name for my daughter – we’ll shorten it so I think it’ll be ok and hopefully I grow to love it
A MUM has got herself into a pretty pickle over giving her daughter an "ugly" name.
While liking the name Winnie she's less keen on the longer version Winifred - but doesn't want to put the shortened nickname on the birth certificate.
Taking to she wrote: "I don´t want to use nicknames on birth certificates mainly because my other children have long, full names, so using just Winnie would seem a little insubstantial in comparison.
"But is Winifred TOO ugly?
"Or is Winifred a Gertrude of a name - eternally ugly and never ready for a comeback?"
She asked that fellow mums should only comment on the name Winifred, as Winnie is one of her all-time favourite girls names.
The mum ended her post by explaining that "one of Winnie´s siblings would be Tabitha. Is this too witchy of a combination?"
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Hundreds of mums gave their opinion, weighing in on the name choices.
One wrote: "Winnie sounds very plain indeed compared to Tabitha so she may feel short-changed in later life."
Most fellow mums did not get the witchy reference, but one went against the grain, saying: "I think too witchy together, sorry!"
Winifred is an Anglo-Saxon name, meaning friend, lord, protector and peace.
Another poster wrote: "I know a teenage Winnie, and her full name is Winsome."
Thinking about other notable Winnies, one said: "Then there's the namesake thing. Winnie Mandela....and even worse for school teasing....Winnie-the-Pooh!"
Other mums seemed split on the name with some saying they loved it while others said it was traditional and ugly.
Some posters said they hated it, with one saying it was "clunky and ugly, in the same way as Gertrude".
One poster did not hold back saying: "I think it's a particularly ugly name. Some names grow on you, but that one never will."
Many loved the name too however, with one saying: "Love Winifred! Love Winnie!
Go for it! I like it. No way is it less pretty than Tabitha."
Many suggested other names that could also be shortened to Winnie such as Winter, Bronwyn, Edwina, Winona, Gwendolyn, Guinevere, Gwyneth, and Wynne.
The worried mum was blown away with the response and felt even more pro-Winifred than before, so the fellow mums had helped confirm her decision to keep the name.
She concluded by writing: "People might hear the name and not love it, but they won´t think, 'Ugh, ANOTHER baby Winifred!'"
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