What do you think of Rosalind?

[openerofjars]

Okay, after a lot of sarcasm good-natured debate, DH and I have finally found a girl's name we love, Rosalind, to be shortened to Rosa or Rosie while she is tiny.

If she is a girl, that is. Clearly it might need a rethink if we have a boy.

Our children have two middle names, family tradition, so this baby would be:

Rosalind Something Jill Surname (1 syllable). Jill is staying as it was my late mother's name. Surname begins with N.

Help us think of a replacement for Something?

Roz is not great... :-/ Sort of like being called Isobel/abel/abelle/abella, and deed-polling yourself to Izzy (I say this as one of them).

Nowhere near as elegant as Rosalind, so I suppose the relative beauty of names is really in the eye of the beholder.

Rosalind and Rosamund are my least favourite Rose names, I'm afraid. I dont like the Roz sound.

I think Rosa on its own is wonderful - simple, classic, strong yet pretty.

Rosanna and Rosalie (Rose-a-lee, not the French Roz-a-lee) also nice.

Bit if you have decided, fair enough!

I love Rosalind. Classic, under-used and so many gorgeous nicknames.

I love it too and also Rosamund which means "Rose of the World"

A Roz by any other name...

I think the thing I like about it, apart from the meaning of "beautiful rose" , is the sheer number of options it gives a person. She can be Rosie when she's little, Rosa for romantic purposes and Roz when she needs to kick some arse. Or she can deed-poll it to Shazza, if she hates it.

I like Rosamund, too, but can't get past the dreadful Rosamund Vincy in Middlemarch. Also, Rosalind commemorates one of the unsung (and badly treated) discoverers of the structure of DNA [massive nerd emoticon].