Message: "Rosalind" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Rosalind

by Perrine (Destry)

6/12/2021, 7:21 AM

Thoughts on Rosalind as a second middle name?

I was thinking: Lily Eilonwy Rosalind

Nice?

Or would Lily Eilonwy Rose be better?

Other Rose-names aren't an option as I don't like them enough. I love the combos (both!) but wondering if Rose is too boring especially with Lily even though it is not directly next to it.

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- Kerilyntaryn21

6/12/2021, 1:20 PM

Rosalind is nice , but Rose would work too

- MasterCiaraXo (ciara23)

6/12/2021, 12:42 PM

Lily Eilonwy Rosalind is glamorous!

I know multiple Lily Rose’s so in my opinion the name in incredibly dull. Not to mention it’s a little to match-y.

- cassilda in carcosa

6/12/2021, 10:59 AM

I like Rosalind. It's very friendly and bubbly. The main Rosalind I've known was the biggest ditzy flake I've ever known, but she was lovely and kind and bubbly which made one forget that she was a nightmare to work with and made everyone else's jobs eight times more difficult by being unbelievably unreliable. I think I prefer Rosamund or Rosamonde precisely because it's 'uglier', clunkier, and Rosamund "Sam" has always been a GP that almost everyone I've ever mentioned it to has hated, haha.

I don't like Lily at all, I don't dislike it I just find it so... indescribably dull. So Yes, Lily Eilonwy Rose is boring. Rose as a middle name, ultra boring. I also don't like two 'straight forward' flower names together, even with another name between them. Lily Eilonwy Rosalind is better, but TBH, if it were me I'd be ditching Lily (Eilonwy Rosalind or Rosalind Eilonwy) or replacing it. Apologies if this is a name with special significance for you (as I said, it's not a -bad- name, just not interesting), it's just that Lily is ultra common here and has been for the best part of twenty, thirty years.

This message was edited 6/12/2021, 11:01 AM

- ari. +2

6/12/2021, 9:11 AM

I love Rosalind, it's one of my very favourite names. How is Eilonwy pronounced? Lily Eilonwy Rose is kind of dull.

- Perrine (Destry) +1

6/12/2021, 9:22 AM

eye-LONN-wee

- ari.

6/12/2021, 10:40 AM

I dislike that both Lily and Eilonwy end in an ee sound.

- New_Chloë (New_Chloe)

6/12/2021, 9:07 AM

Lily and Rose in the same combo irks me; it's not boring exactly, it's just too matchy-matchy, and Rosalind gets around that problem. Lily Eilonwy Rosalind is a bit of a mouthful, but it is pretty. I do think Lily Rosalind Eilonwy has better flow, but perhaps the surname would affect that.

- Ani (peonini) +1

6/12/2021, 7:31 AM

Question, do you pronounce it like the site pronunciation or like Rosa-lind?

Either way, I think Lily Eilonwy Rose sounds heaps better. I always liked Lily and Rose together.

- Perrine (Destry)

6/12/2021, 9:23 AM

ROS-uh-lind (kind of)

- Dianatiger

6/12/2021, 7:29 AM

The cadence between Eilonwy and Rosalind feels a hair off but otherwise yes it is nice.

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