You know, I do like Rose alot. I think it's a very pretty underused named.
I had an aunt named Rose. Her middle name was Mary. Ours is an Irish family, and there was a family tradition (Irish? local? familial?) of giving the first girl in the new generation the name "Mary" -- so Rose was "Rose Mary". And I had wondered why, when my sister was born, she was also given the name "Mary" -- it was worked into the string somewhere -- along with the one she was more usually called. Mystery solved, when I finally heard about the tradition from another aunt who broke it when she named her firstborn girl something else that didn't go with Mary very well. She broke with tradition out of consideration for her girl, knowing that other kids would take two rhyming names and try to make mean little singsong taunts out of them if afforded the opportunity.