Should I be worried about Rosa?

Girl Names
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[name]Rosa[/name] is my number one at the moment, I think it’s gorgeous. I have gone through so many variants of [name]Rose[/name], but I’ve lost interest in the longer rose names over time. Many of them just sound too stuffy to me, and I can’t see myself using them.

I wasn’t too worried about [name]Rosa[/name]'s popularity, as it ranks #238 in the 2010 UK [name]Baby[/name] Names chart with just 208 births last year. However, I added up all the rose names* earlier and found that if you lump them all together, they’d rank 24th in the chart. That’s a lot higher than I’d be hoping for in a name, and I’m worried that most rose names (including [name]Rosa[/name]) will end up inevitably going as [name]Rose[/name]/[name]Rosie[/name]/[name]Rosa[/name].

[name]Do[/name] you guys think it’s something to be avoided? [name]Will[/name] she just end up being [name]Rosa[/name] A. (for example) in a sea of kids with similar names?

*all the [name]Rose[/name] names in the top 7388 (not including hyphenated names) in order of popularity - [name]Rosie[/name], [name]Rose[/name], [name]Rosa[/name], [name]Rosemary[/name], [name]Rosalie[/name], [name]Rosanna[/name], [name]Rosalind[/name], [name]Primrose[/name], [name]Roseanna[/name], Rosabella, [name]Rosey[/name], [name]Rosy[/name], Rosabella, [name]Rosalie[/name], [name]Roseanne[/name], [name]Rosaline[/name], [name]Rosemarie[/name], [name]Rosamund[/name], Rosabel, [name]Rosaria[/name], Roseline, [name]Rosalina[/name], [name]Roselyn[/name], Rosealie, [name]Rosella[/name].

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Well, popularity is the reason why [name]Rosa[/name] fell down my list of favourites and why I now slightly prefer [name]Rosalie[/name] nn [name]Rosa[/name] instead. I hadn’t realised that the [name]Rose[/name] names would add up to 24th though, wow! However, [name]Rosa[/name] is still beautiful (definitely the prettiest [name]Rose[/name] name) and she’s still relatively unlikely to have another [name]Rosa[/name] in her class. If you love it, I’d still use it.

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I can’t imagine [name]Rosa[/name] being one of many at school. It is not that common for people to use [name]Rose[/name] as a first name although extremely popular as a middle name.

I don’t like Rosal much but I think [name]Rosalie[/name] is charming.

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[name]Rose[/name] is actually #90 here, so pretty common as a first name. [name]Rosie[/name] is #59, so they’re both in the top 100. I do think [name]Rosalie[/name] is cute, but it’s just too Twilight for me.

I don’t know, still worried because [name]Rose[/name] names are clearly a favourite, but I really do love it…