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I find Rose very boring and over-used. Flower names seldom appeal to me, and Rose is one of the dullest. I really like Rosamond and Rosemary, but I'd only use them as mns, to avoid Rose as a nn. As a mn, it is extremely trite: deep in my family tree is a distant cousin who was named Margaret Rose, just like the late Queen's sister, which I find embarrassing.