Róisín or Beatrice

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Which is your favourite? Two names we're considering at the moment if we have a girl.

Definitely prefer Roisin, it’s gorgeous. I don’t like Beatrice, sorry just seems so Royal and stuffy to me. Quite like Beatrix though, just has a different feel to me.

Beatrice, mainly because I like the Dante association and Bea is a lovely nn. There are a fair few about though..

I don’t like Róisín, it sounds like Maureen and Eileen and other depressing wartime names to me.

However I think Rosen (Row-zun) the Cornish version of Rose is great, also Roslyn (Roz-Lin).

No to Roisin unless you live in Ireland as you'll inflict a lifetime of mispronunciation and misspelling on your child.
I like Beatrice shortened to Bea.

Beatrice for definite

Roisin definitely.

Róisín.

Pp has it.

Love both

Personally I prefer Roisin over Beatrice ( although it has a sweet meaning )
Is there a reason you would opt for Roísín over Roisin?
also out of interest will you pronounce it Rush- in or Ro-sheen
just I have heard it pronounced both ways
Both are lovely names- exciting times!

Beatrice is lovely.

@DotDotDotDotDot I like Beatrix a lot too, but our last name starts with a C (similar to Clayton), and I wonder if the X gets a bit lost on there?

@AnnaBlush I would spell it Róisín on the birth certificate, but I wouldn't mind Roisin for general use or other people spelling it this way. We'd say RO-sheen.

I love Beatrice but I do sometimes wonder if it's a bit stuffy... or is it just elegant? Tricky!

Beatrice is also quite common in France and not considered ''stuffy'' at all there. It made me think of the actress Beatrice Dalle.

As some people have already said Roisin will just get mis-pronounced and misspelt all the time. Unless you are Irish, live in Ireland I would wonder as well why you are choosing this.

You could use one of them as a middle name anyway as they sound OK together.

This. I don’t like Róisín, it sounds like Maureen and Eileen and other depressing wartime names to me.

Don't like 'een' names. Beatrice is sweet and Bea is a cute nickname.

I’m Irish and I associate Róisín with the very boring, common girls’ names of the 70s and 80s (I am named another one in a similar vein!).

Much prefer Beatrice.

One is very Irish and one is very English, which country do you live in?

Beatrice.
I love it.

We are in England but many of our family members have Irish names with no problems. Róisín is so well-known that I don't think the spelling is an issue, so I wouldn't make the decision on that basis myself.

Typing/remembering where the ‘ go in Róisín is a pain so I would go Roisin. The Roisin I know gets called raisin even though the pronunciation here is Rosh-een. Raisin isn’t actually that bad a nickname though - I am sure there would be beer tricks jokes with your other choice (not so bad either).
I have long names that can have cruel nicknames so probably over-think these things!

For the posters asking what way op would pronounce Roisin, (phone wont let me put the fadas on) it's Ro Sheen. I've only heard English people pronouncing it Rosh een.

It must depend where you live in England. I grew up in Liverpool which has strong Irish connections and there were always kids with Irish names in my schools so we were familiar with them. My dad's best friend's daughters are Roisin and Clodagh for example.

Have you heard of Róise?

Ro shuh

Similar to Róisín.

Beatrice by a mile - Roisin for me is one of those names like Maureen, Beryl, Brenda and Eileen that fell out of favour for good reason.

I much prefer Beatrice (nothing against Gaelic names, I like many of them, just prefer Beatrice)

Presumably the OP would ‘opt for’ the correct spelling with correct síne fadas, as otherwise it isn’t a name?

Both names are lovely OP, but quite different.

I see Beatrice as quite an English name (in the sense that it's popular there, not that it originated there). Róisín, on the other hand, is distinctly Irish. I disagree with pp who put it in the same category as Maureen and Eileen. I don't know any Eileens under fifty, or Maureens under seventy, but the Róisíns I know are younger. Its been in the top 50 in the Irish charts for the last 35 years or so.