Roselda and Gloretha

I found these today in the local birth announcements for today’s paper. Thoughts?

Roselda - I’d imagine that it’s pronounced [name]Ro[/name]-[name]ZEL[/name]-dah (can’t find a pronunciation anywhere), another variation of [name]Rose[/name]

Gloretha - Glo-RETH-ah (looked it up on babynamesworld.com), a variation of [name]Glory[/name]/[name]Gloria[/name]

Roselda is interesting. Not sure I’d call it pretty, but it’s a nice sound.

Gloretha I don’t like at all. It just feels like a smoosh of [name]Gloria[/name] and [name]Aretha[/name].

I guess the smoosh of Roselda doesn’t bother me because [name]Rose[/name] names are usually smooshes :slight_smile:

Roselda isn’t terrible but I prefer plain ole [name]Rose[/name]. I don’t like Gloretha at all!

Roselda was a variation of [name]Rose[/name] I’d never heard of before. Gloretha seems to be an old variation of [name]Glory[/name]/[name]Gloria[/name], I found it mentioned in a fiction book set in the Civil War era (United States civil war).

Honestly, these sound like the type of “exotic” names that I would have made up with my friends when we were playing pretend as eight-year-olds and wanted to be, like, mysterious/magical/mystical ladies. Not my cup of tea now :slight_smile:

I find them interesting, though I’m not sure how much I like them. I would have loved them as a kid, but I’m a bit iffy for real-life names. A character, yes, but not sure about a real person.

Oh boy. To me they sound like names you’d find from the early 1900’s in the deep deep South!!! Not a fan AT ALL!!!