Girl version for Joseph

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We want to use a girl version for Joseph as my DD middle name.

All I can think of is Josephine and Josie.

I don't love Josephine and Josie doesn't work with the 1st name we have chosen which is Rosa.

Help!!!

Jogina

Jocelyn? Jocasta?

Just Jo. I think Rosa Jo has a nice feel to it.

Joey or Jo.

Josefa is a bit different

Joseline

Josette?

Josette, Joella, Joelle, Jody, Johanna, Joanne, Joanna

We named DD2 after my FIL, Joseph but who was known as Joe. I didn't like Josephine or Josie so we used joanna

Josephina?

I know a Josepha, in her 40s now. She was usually called Joey.

Scrap that suggestion OP, don’t think my suggestion works w Rosa. Apologies

Josephina
Sefina / Sefi
Joanna (which, yeah, isn’t the same name but keeps the Joe bit)

To my mind if you are doing this to 'honour' a relative I think it needs to be Josephine or nothing at all. It isn't honouring to just randomly keep a tiny bit of the name.

Can you do 3 names e.g. Rosa Milly Josephine

Rosa-jo?

Josefa

Joanne or Joanna.
Joelle
Jo
Jolene

Jodie
Jolene

Rosa Joanna

I don’t understand why it matters that you don’t love Josephine. If you want to honour someone you just use the name. It’s not like you’ll be using it on a day to day basis.

Mind you before MN I’d didn’t realise that people gave middle names that weren’t honouring anyone. That’s all I’d ever known or heard of.

Because I want to love my daughters name.

We do use our older childrens fn and mn together quite often

Johanna

Jerusha?

Seraphina
Sapphire

IMO, I don't think any version of Joseph works with Rose or Rosa, as the middle vowel sounds are too similar. I think your only way around it is a previous suggestion of having a first middle name between Rosa and Josephine.