Rosaline (or Rosalind) or Juliet?

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I'm liking both of these names but not sure which I prefer at the moment.
Out of interest, which do you prefer and why?

Also, other suggestions in a similar vein would be great.

Rosalind. Doesn't shout Shakespeare like Juliet does. I like Miranda too.

Rosalind - lovely name!

They were both on my list for dd1 . I love Rosalind.

I really like Juliet, I'm not a big fan of Rose type names, not sure why. Regan, Cordelia, Helena, Celia, Audrey, Beatrice, Hero. I'm just listing Shakespeare characters now .

I have a Rosalind. Excellent name.

I also have a Miranda and a Beatrice

Yes we did have a Shakesperean thing going on ........

If we had a dd4 which we won't be doing I think I would have gone for Viola.

Lovely names NLurker. Does it get shortened at all?

How do you pronounce Viola? I'm never quite sure.

Juliet

I also don't like "Rose" names.

Josephine?

We call her Rossy quite a bit.

Viola - I always think of that as Vi-ola NOT Vi--Oh-la - iyswim? Almost an 'a' sound in the middle.

Both lovely names, although I slightly prefer Juliet. Also like Rosamond, Miranda and Isabel (although Isabel is a bit more popular right now).

I'm a -lind, it gets shortened to Roz (used to be Ros but too many people pronounced it 'Ross'), Rozzy and Roo but that wasn't until I went to secondary school.

BTW Rosalind means 'Beautiful Rose' - va appropriate name for a lovely baby girl

It also means 'gentle horse' if you take the germanic origin- thankfully my parents opted for NLurkers meaning

Juliet without a doubt.

Rose names are the standard middle name that Louise was in the 70's.

I have a Rosalyn as a middle name.

Love both! Good choices

REally Karma - how many chidren do you know with Rosalind for a middle name? Rose is a different matter I agree. V annoying - we used it for dd1 13 years ago when nobody was using it!

both are beautiful. which isn't much help.

I don't consider Rosaline or Rosalind Rose names. the Ros sound makes them markedly different imo. and the only ones I know are in their 40s

I like all of the other names suggested (except Regan) but couldn't/ wouldn't use them for various reasons.

karma- I take your point about Rose being v popular as a mn but I don't think the "Rose' names are overused as first names at all. Rosalind is pretty unusual, surely, unless it gets shortened to Rose/ Rosie all the time!
I like Rosa as a nn if necessary.

Juliet. I know a Rosalind who goes by Roz which is just awful.

Rosaline.

Pronounced Rose-leen?

Rosalind is lovely. dh always vetoed it on our girls name list.... grrr! Juliet is cute, reminds me of Dogtanian!

diddl- I would pn Rosaline
Roz-ah-lyne