I feel like [name]Rosalie[/name] and [name]Leo[/name] are the nickname versions of their actual Italian name ([name]Rosalia[/name] and [name]Leonardo[/name] - though I realize [name]Leo[/name] could be a nickname for a lot of things… But I’m Italian so that’s where my mind and my preference goes).
If we have 2 girls, will [name]Rosalie[/name] feel like her sister has a complete name and she doesn’t? (I seriously doubt boys think about their names so I’m going to assume little [name]Simon[/name] and [name]Leo[/name] don’t care )
We have an Irish-American last name, so using something like [name]Rosalia[/name] in the first name position is a bit much for someone as American as my husband.
Definitely not! [name]Leo[/name] and [name]Rosalie[/name] are names in their own right, not nicknames. [name]Sophie[/name], [name]Aurelie[/name], [name]Natalie[/name], etc., are names, too, not just nicknames for [name]Sophia[/name], [name]Aurelia[/name], [name]Natalia[/name], etc.–a lot of times, the -ie endings are the French alternatives for the -ia endings. I don’t think [name]Leo[/name] and [name]Rosalie[/name] would be cheated at all, personally.
[name]Love[/name] your choices, btw! All very lovely.
I prefer [name]Leo[/name] and [name]Rosalie[/name] instead of the full versions and I see people talking about [name]Rosalie[/name] and never [name]Rosalia[/name]. I wouldn’t worry about it. If you want to get really technical, [name]Georgia[/name] could be a nickname for [name]Georgette[/name] or [name]Georgina[/name] or [name]Georgiana[/name]. I doubt [name]Georgia[/name] or [name]Rosalie[/name] or [name]Leo[/name] would ever really think to hard about it.
By the time they get old enough to even care the names would have been theirs so long that they won’t think anything weird about it.
Honestly, [name]Leo[/name] feels more like a nickname to me than [name]Rosalie[/name] does. Now if it was [name]Rosa[/name], I could understand your worry.
[name]Leo[/name] is NOT just a nickname. There were 13 Catholic popes named [name]Leo[/name] - yes, just [name]Leo[/name] - so I don’t understand why you would just think of it as a nickname for a longer name. [name]Rosalie[/name] is the French form of [name]Rosalia[/name] so that’s a name in its own right as well. [name]Leo[/name], [name]Simon[/name], [name]Georgia[/name] and [name]Rosalie[/name] would make wonderful siblings.
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I don’t think [name]Leo[/name] and [name]Rosalie[/name] would be cheated at all, personally.