Robyn, Raphaëlle or Rowan?

[Lucasboo]

Girls names beginning with R (tradition here of naming with initial of grandparent. For a girl so far
Robyn (Robbie)
Raphaëlle
Rowan
Rain
Ruri (Japanese name not Irish)
Romy
Reva

Any others apart from Rose

Why would you turn Robyn into Robbie? Robyn is a beautiful name but Robbie - boy over and over.
Raphaëlle - way too frilly..
Rowan to me is a boys name..

Just to let you know that the letter ë is not acknowledged in the English alphabet. You can register it in a birth certificate, but you would need to transliterate it to e for passports, insurance, etc. We are in this situation with one of our kids' names (bi-national household), and it has been a recurring annoyance.

It would sound like you had a weird speech impediment if you pronounced it the "R" way. Romanization of Japanese has, for some reason, always translated that sound wrong. We were always taught "it's a hard L sound, never an R". Sorry to be pedantic.

It’s not an L either. It’s a sort of midpoint between the two.

Rowan is a boys name

How do you know the OP doesn’t have a connection? Or that they’re even in the U.K.? Or her husbands heritage?

Raphaelle Rain and Ruri awful
Romy and Rita best

It's not. It's as I said, hard L. Japanese mixed race family here.

my favourites are Romy or Robyn (although prefer the Robin spelling)

It isn’t an umlaut it’s a dieresis and is very much part of the French language. It shows how the name should be pronounced (with seperate vowel sounds)

Interesting thank you. It is a family name from my mum’s side but didn’t realise about the passport thing

I knew a female Rowan at school so it's at least unisex to me. Isn't one of the girls in Wicker Man called Rowan?

Rhiannon
Roisin
Rosa

Ruth
Rachel
Rhonda
Ruby
Reagan
Remi
Rhea
Rosalie
Ramona
Rowena

It’s very nice to see a parent considering a name with a diacritic who actually knows what it’s called and what it does

As pp said you can’t have any diacritics on UK passports but this is really not a big deal. French people omit the diacritics from capital letters so often in everyday use that it doesn’t look especially jarring to me, and how often do you read your own passport?

Raphaëlle is lovely but people will have to learn the spelling and you will get some eccentric attempts on party invitations and birthday cards.

My favourite R names are Romilly and Rosemary.

Rowena
Rowenne

Actually maybe just get a name dictionary lol

How weird... the French word for Christmas is Noël. It's a diaeresis that separates the vowels into separate syllables.

Raphaëlle is my favourite from your list

Remi
Rosa
Roma

Out of your list I like Reeva

Not Rain (any spelling).
Lifelong ‘witticisms’
Rain rain go away
Acid Rain
etc

Are you 100% committed and embracing of the R thing?

I would drop for a first name it unless I absolutely loved a name as a favourite.

Rowan is more usually a boy's name. Why not the more feminine Rowena?

Raphaelle is OK, but as it is more usually heard as a boy's name, as Raphael, why not Raphaella? The diaresis will never be used in the UK.

Robyn, I don't like it spelt with a y, it seems unnecessarily fussy.

Rain will produce endless teasing

Ruri will always be mistaken for Ruari, Rory

Romy and Reva sound like something off Star Trek.

I love Robyn and Roberta

My favourite R names for a girl are

Reeva
Remi
Rya
Raven

I only know it as a girls name in Scotland