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Exaaactly, a lot of it does depend where you live, which languages you speak and where the child will be growing up.

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I'm Canadian, grew up bilingual in French and English, learned Spanish, moved to Catalan-speaking Spain (not to Catalunya, just to be clear), moved to the Basque Country and that's where I am now. I'm so infatuated with Pazkoala as a Basque form of Pascale... no good when you start speaking Spanish and it's not so much about Easter as it is about "peace koala".
I also love Pau... but my friends in Canada will just think I named my kid "Pow".

And I think in the case of Beatriste, with the whole French-Spanish-Catalan-Basque part of my life, thinking "triste" is anything except for French/Spanish/Basque "sad" (and "one letter off from 'trist' which is Catalan) will just not happen for me when that's 4 of the 5 languages I speak and/or understand and/or hear on a daily basis. If I spoke Polish, Turkish and Icelandic, I wouldn't have made the connection, and probably wouldn't have cared about it even after I learned about it.
It's all relative, I guess.