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Annabel or Rosanna?

18 replies

Sampanther · 22/04/2014 22:30

Which do you prefer?

Love Anna as a nn but prefer a longer full name so any other Anna-related suggestions also welcomed

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friedgreentomatoes88 · 22/04/2014 22:31

Love Rosanna!

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adaloveslace · 22/04/2014 22:37

Annaliese
Anastasia

I love Anna as a standalone name, or an abbreviation of the above, but not wild on Annabel. Rosanna is nicer.

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Sampanther · 22/04/2014 22:40

I'd worry about Anastasia getting shortened to Stacey, which I dislike. Annaleise sounds a bit too American for me.

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DramaAlpaca · 23/04/2014 00:27

Rosanna is gorgeous.

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Blueberrybaby · 23/04/2014 02:54

Love Annabel and Anastasia. I've not heard of it being shortened to Stacy.

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Nowitscleanugobshite · 23/04/2014 03:22

Rosanna. And she will even have a song with her name! Chris de burgh wrote it for his rosanna-long before she became miss world!! I taught a rosanna years ago and one of the other children told her mum there was a girl in her class who was called "the angel song" as she thought it was hosanna! So cute!

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Mrsfullhouse · 23/04/2014 06:14

How about a combo of the two-
Rosella.

This is my cousins name and I've always envied it's unusual cute beauty

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Mrsfullhouse · 23/04/2014 06:15

How about a combo of the two-
Rosella.

This is my cousins name and I've always envied it's unusual cute beauty

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Messygirl · 23/04/2014 06:48

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legalalien · 23/04/2014 07:03

I like Marianne but difficult to justify "anna" from it. Annalie?

Not Rosella, surely - just makes me thing "parrot" (I am antipodean).

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RuthlessBaggage · 23/04/2014 07:05

I love Annabel.

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legalalien · 23/04/2014 07:05

Think not thing...

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Mrsfullhouse · 23/04/2014 08:30

Do you know, in the 27 years I've known her, I've never once thought 'parrot'!
How strange... of course it's a bloody parrot!
(Why have I never thought this??)

Total retraction, don't call your child Rosella.

Annabel is lovely, but if you like Anna, just ho for it! Beautiful name in its own right.

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Mrsfullhouse · 23/04/2014 08:32

'Go'for it... don't ho for it for Christ's sake!
(Stupid pregnabcy sausage fingers)

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Mrsfullhouse · 23/04/2014 08:33

'Go'for it... don't ho for it for Christ's sake!
(Stupid pregnabcy sausage fingers)

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Spottybra · 23/04/2014 08:38

Annabel, Annaliesa, rihanna (not my choice but still has an Anna in it), Hannah, georgiana (pride and prejudice fan), Erianna, Fenalla, Lianna, Marianna, Joanna...