Potential sister for Rosa

[Lissie87]

Happy to hear other suggestions (boy name been sorted for years lol) but mostly looking for thoughts on current shortlist:

Esti
Oula
Hester
Erin
Dasha
Meri

I like Hester and Erin; the others are a bit unusual for me.

Rosa and Erin is lovely.

Only like is Dasha and that’s a dim for Daria.

I like Dasha though it does conjure up images of the reindeer...

Definitely Erin. Rosa and Erin are both lovely names. Not keen on any of your others, sorry.

Erin and Hester are nice. What culture are the other names from? I haven't heard any of them before.

I'm not keen on Hester but what about Esther?

I love Erin.

Rosa and:

Clare
Amy
Juliet
Caroline
Charlotte
Annie

When I saw Rosa I thought of the name Carmen. For me they have the same vibe.

Hester is nice, Erin is Ok - Esther is nicer than either though - Rosa and Esther is a lovely combination I think.

The rest are a bit of a cultural jumble, and don’t translate well into English even if you have scandi/Russian heritage.

The Irish Oona or Orla would be easier than Oula, Daria which is the full form of Dasha works better in English, Merryn (Cornish), Meredith, Marina, or Marianne rather than Meri (Meri could be a nn), Esti is short for Esther anyhow, but it’s really not a full name.

@1Hazel1 Oula is Cornish, Meri is Latin. Esti is just a short form of Esther and Dasha is Russian. Though I don’t believe it necessarily matters I do actually have Cornish and Russian heritage !

@partyatthepalace I’d forgotten about Merryn, thanks

@partyatthepalace Could you tell me why Dasha doesn’t work in English? I really like it t don’t want to make a faux pas!

Dasher is one of Rudolph’s red-nosed reindeer. I like Dasha but you will get reindeer jokes.

Cornish and Russian is an interesting combination:

I love Iseult and Bryher/Briar, Oksana & Tatiana (obv).

I like Meri best.

Esti would be nice as nickname for Estela.

Yeah - it’s the reindeer thing - I think if you called her Daria on the birth cert and then used Dasha as short - then at least she’d have options if she got fed up with the Santa jokes

I know a Daria who goes by Dasha. She is half Russian. To my knowledge no-one has made any reindeer jokes, it's not that unusual a name.

I like Hester and Erin the best, then Dasha, then Meri. Oula makes me think of "does the hula from Hawaii". Esti isn't a name to me.

Hester and Erin are my favourites.

‘Rosa and Oula’ flows nicely.

I have taught lots of Russian Dashas- nice name.

Lila
Leila
Orla

Rosa is a lovely name.

I like Esti if short for Esther.

Meri but if short for Meredith or Merryn.

You could have Mary, Marie, Marianne or Maria nickname Masha too.

Meri is Latin? How so? It's not a Roman name or a Latin word.

I tell a lie - merum means "neat wine" (ie not mixed with water). So meri is "of neat wine" in Latin?

Oula seems to mean "owl" in Cornish - is it used as a name too?

While I don't think sibling names need to "match" as such, most of your list seems very unusual compared to Rosa. Of your choices I like Erin best, my second pick would be Hester (although I prefer Esther).

Rosa is pretty, quite simple and classic and very international so I'd guess her sister to be named something similar - Eva, Anna, Sara/Sarah, Lara, Laura, Maria, Marina, Elena, Julia, Claudia, Teresa or the like, if that matters?

Love Esther but Esti looks and sounds a bit like STI so wouldn't go with that! Meri and Erin are fine, don't like the others except Merryn which I love. None of these names are as classy. I'd definitely choose Merryn. Other names that sound nice with Rosa are Clara, Nina, Anna.

*as classy as Rosa or Merryn, I mean.

I have a Rosa. Her sister is Chloe.