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My aunt actually lives in Bethesda Maryland. I have no strong feelings on the names. I do love Maria on its own.

Esperance is a beautiful French version of Hope. I like it as well as the Spanish Esperanza and the Italian Speranza.

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Bethesda is a Biblical place name, a town in Maryland and a video company.

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Rosariamaria looks like a smoosh of Rosaria and Maria. It's too long as a first but it would be better as fn and mn combo.

The strongest association I have for Bethesda is the video game company. It does have a lyrical name!

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Esperance is beautiful. I love Esperanza too.

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Rosariamaria is a little long, but it's pretty. I love Rosaria.

Rosariamaria is pretty, though it looks quite odd and awkward all run together that way.

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In the US, Bethesda is a Maryland suburb of Washington DC, famous mainly as the home of the Bethesda naval hospital.

Don't really like any

Esperance is glorious and worlds better than Hope.

I once worked under a woman named Esperance van Heerden. Her father had been responsible for founding a Teacher Training College and one of its halls of residence was named Esperance, presumably after his daughter, or perhaps the other way round. The meaning is good: I've just watched the Democratic Party vice-presidential candidate explaining why his daughter is named Hope. I'd prefer to use either name as a mn only.

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Bethesda is a way of having a daughter known as Beth without using Elizabeth or Bethany; plus, it's biblical, which might or might not matter.

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Rosariamaria is seven syllables long! I hope she goes by Rosie.

Esperance is amazing. I think Bethesda is a video game company?