Rosabelle?

[Kghl03]

Pretty or trying too hard to be traditional but different?
Would personally shorten to Belle not Rosa as MIL name is Rose (love her to bits) so not worried about it being similar.

I'm conflicted on this one. I generally like 'Rosa-' names (love Rosalind and Rosanna, like Rosamund) and I don't exactly dislike Rosabelle but it feels a bit more twee and 'consumptive heroine from a minor Victorian novel' than the others. Would you pronounce it 'Rozzabelle' or 'Rose-a-belle'?

Love Belle.
Rosabelle doesn't sound great to me and looks a bit made-up- that's to say, it's not really a classic, is it?
Sounds like the kind of name that usually the parent sticks a hyphen in the middle of iyswim.
Sorry.
Personally l'd use Annabelle or Isabelle.

I teach one and know one other. Both spell it Rosabel which is less frilly. Both shorten to Rose.

I like it actually. It's pretty and unusual. I'm not usually the biggest belle name fan but I think the unusual part of this helps

I think it’s too twee and cutesy, sorry.

Rosalie? Rosalind? Rosamund?

Cut the extra -le off the end and it's much less twee.

It's a Victorian era name, so not made up, but never reached the dizzying popularity of other similar names, eg Isabel.

Nn possibilities: Rosa, Rosie, Rose, Belle, etc. Obviously Rose-adjascent nn are more intuitive.

I know a Rosabel and she's very much a sciency tomboy type, so I don't think of it as frilly.

Rosa is lovely - Rosabelle is a made up twee stretch too far for me, I’m sorry!

yeah I do agree! Thinking Rosalie instead..

Sounds made up op, sorry

Didn't think of spelling it Rosabel, does sound ten times better!

Ahh I didn’t realise it wasn’t made up. Perhaps the spelling is what makes it read like it’s a mash of two already “pretty” names - Rosa and Isabelle.

Rosabel is better, but it still sounds twee.

Rosalie is lovely!

A bit OTT. Over embellished. Rosamund, Rosalind, rose, Rosa much nicer.

Sounds like the name you'd give a very fussy flouncy porcelain doll.

this

It’s pretty but delicate, as someone else said, a bit china doll.

it's too frou-frou for me.

I love it...I know one, she spells it Rosabel and I agree with pp I prefer it as it's less frilly.

I prefer Rosalind or Rosamund myself. Particularly like Rosalind. Not mad keen on Belle though as a name. But if you want Belle isn't Isabelle or Isobel more usual candidates? I actually love the Isobel names since long before they got popular. I prefer Isobel and Isabelle to Rosabelle or Rosabel. Rose names are also popular so even if Rosabelle is unusual but then she gets a shortening that lots of others might have. Rose plus Belle just feels a bit too frilly together for me. Maribel?

Ooh Maribel is nice. Also Mirabel

Bit to twee for me but its whether you like it that matters. I know a Rosalia (pronounced Rose Are leah) which is a Rose name you dont hear very often

Love both Rosabelle and Rosabel spelling.

The Rose and Belle combo is just too sickly, like a twee loo spray. You’d assume she’d have a lisp. One or the other is plenty.

Rosanna, Rosemary, Rosamund, Rosalind.. all beautiful and elegant. Or Rosaria, although that has different origins.

Christabel also great, and Annabel nice

Reminds me of the Ingham family.

Roselle maybe