Rosanna, Clara, Serena - HELP please!

[PinkSunflowers]

Which one do you like out of these? Any other hidden gems that we may have missed, please feel free to suggest (though it might make us even more confused 😅)

Our baby girl will be half South Asian, half Irish American and grow up in London & New York

Thank you so much!

Pettymys, Its a Finnish name meaning Strong and Smart.

Rosanna and Clara were our top 2, so love them both. DD is named Rosanna so obviously that's my choice!

Have you considered the US/UK pronunciation differences with Clara? She’ll be Clahra in London and Claira in New York.

I like Rosanna with nn Rosa.

Have you considered Tara? It's an Irish name, as well as meaning 'star' in Sanskrit (I believe).

They’re all lovely. Slight preference for Serena. If it was my child though I’d probably go for Rosanna so she has more flexibility with nicknames (Ros / Rosie / Rox / Anna / Annie).

Any interest in Rowena / Rowenna? Love that name and it deserves a comeback I think.

Oh wow! What are the odds 😀😀 how old is your DD now? Do you find you tend to call her a nickname?

She's 9 weeks old! She mainly gets Rosanna or Rosie (amongst other random, unrelated nicknames!) I do like the nn Rosie and it suits her but I'm making sure people call her Rosanna as well as I love the name and want to make sure it's used! It's probably 50/50 which one people call her at the moment 😊

I will add as well that people didn't start calling her Rosie until we did. I've noticed people have followed our lead as to what to call her 😁

Rosie is a lovely NN! I think we’d probably say ‘baby Ro’ for a while and then go with a NN that suits her - maybe Rosie but I think she might also suit a Rosa. It’s a lovely name, with lots of options!

Really like Clara!
Rosanna is OK but prefer Rosa and Rose
I've always disliked Serena - I don't really know why!

Anastasia
Ophelia
Olympia
Gaia
Hera
Luciana
Arianna
Aria
Georgiana
Alexandria
Alexia
Alicia
Portia
Petra
Monica
Mona
Athena
Tamara
Mara
Zara
Farah
Tana
Olga
Oonagh
Lara
Larissa
Nerisa
Merida
Melinda
Matilda
Tilda
Tulsa
Ara
Ava
Ada
Assia
India
Jana
Kaia
Lana
Aurora
Tatiana
Eliza
Lydia
Savannah
Sienna
Malia
Marina
Elena
Sylvia
Natalia

Wow! Thanks so much for the suggestions. They’re great

I love Rosanna.

How about Cara?

Clara is my favourite, and was on my list of favourite girls names. I also liked Clarabelle, with Clara as the short version.

Clara.
Frieda/Freda/Alfreda?

Serena was in our top 3 for DD, but we ended up going for something different because we thought calling her Serena was tempting fate/asking for trouble 😂. We were also seriously considering Sabrina.

I like Rosanna very much. It's pretty but not soppy, has a few good potential short forms and is not too popular or too weird. It would definitely be my top choice of these 3.

I like Clara pronounced Clare-a but not Clar-a which seems to be more popular nowadays. Whichever way you like it, some people will try to pronounce it the other way so you need to be sure that won't irritate you too much.

Serena sounds nice but one of those names that could be hard to live up to - you can bet someone will joke about it when your baby is screaming/little girl is causing chaos/teenager is swearing and slamming doors.

Rosina? Mixture if Rosanna and Serena. Love Clara too.

Clara would be my favourite, but I'm in Italy where all 3 are used. Serena is really popular it seems and Rosanna is old-fashioned and usually a diminutive of Rosa Anna. Compounded here by there being:
Rosanna
Rossanna
Rossana

I work with one of each, and each has a different pronunciation so we end up calling them all Ro.