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TheBirdintheCave · 01/07/2022 15:14

My husband and I are trying for baby number two. We already have a nineteen month old son, Gilbert.

We plan on calling a future daughter Hero (it's Greek in origin and was used as one of Shakespeare's characters in Much Ado About Nothing which is my husband's favourite play :) ) I know it's not to everyone's taste but we've been set on it for years now.

A lot of my family members have two middle names (my mum has three and my poor cousin has four!). We followed that tradition with our son and plan to do so with our next child.

My husband's mum died before he and I met and we want to honour her if we have a daughter, her name was Jane.

I am the fifth generation in a line of Rose's and I've always wanted my daughter's middle name to be Rose as well.

The problem I have is that all three names (Hero, Rose and Jane) are all very short and don't sound good together in any order. I've played around with a few combinations of Rose extensions but haven't found one that really speaks to me yet. Does anyone have a favourite of these combos? Or can you come up with anything I may not of thought of? I'm not a fan of Rosalind et al. If it helps, our surname is one syllable too and starts with F.

Hero Jane Rosella
Hero Rosanna Jane
Hero Jane Rosemary

Wildcard...

Hero Elizabeth Rose (Jane was actually DMIL's middle name. Her first was a cutesy diminutive of Elizabeth but she really did not like it and no one used it).

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MissEmily5 · 04/07/2022 22:23

Great names! Love Gilbert and Hero (for both a girl or boy) :)
How about Rosalie? Or Rosaline?
Hero Rosalie Jane
Hero Rosaline Jane

PortalooSunset · 05/07/2022 08:16

Hero Jane Rose.

TheBirdintheCave · 05/07/2022 10:15

Ooh I'm surprised at how many people like Hero Jane Rose. I've always thought it sounded like a shopping list with our surname added too, lol, but I think I'm warming up to it now myself. With a soundsalike surname the full name would be something similar to:

Hero Jane Rose Fliss

Does that still sound ok?

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Narcoticsexpressnyavan · 08/07/2022 17:55

Much prefer Beatrice in Much Ado. I would do Beatrice Rose.

Yika · 08/07/2022 21:39

Hero Jane Rose sounds fine to me!

TheBirdintheCave · 14/07/2022 09:41

@Narcoticsexpressnyavan Not a fan of the name Beatrice I'm afraid. Hero is staying. My question was about the middle names :)

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