Do you like Mariana?

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Baby is a girl :) come July I will have a second daughter.

I am still struggling for names. She will have a brother called Edward and a sister called Flora.

My first thought was 'is it a real name?'

It's a lovely sounding name but suspect you would have to do a lot of correcting

How about Marianne or Mariella?

It's lovely

Mariana is too fussy IMO

What about the lovely , classic Mary (woefully underused these days!) or the slightly prettier Maria.

Have never met an under-5 with one of these names!

Congratulations btw!

It's lovely.

I also really like Marianne.

I don't like Mariella. Marianne is quite nice but I don't like Marion and they sound too similar.

Not really a fan of Mary or Maria :)

Yes!

I really don't like it, way too fussy for my taste.

Too fussy and flowery.

Edward and Flora are ace though.

I... Like the Mariana Trench? (Sorry)

My first thought was, only if your surname is Trench but Elf beat me to it.

Not made up! Tennyson. Mariana in the moated grange.

Very pretty name but not an ideal role model especially for MN tastes! She just sat around letting the place go to wrack and ruin whilst sighing over some lying git.

I thought of the trench too, sorry.
Marianne is lovely, but pronounced marry Anne rather than like Marion.

LOVE Mariana - it's the name of one of my favourite paintings by John Everett Millais. It's from Measure for Measure and also a poem by Tennyson, though the fictional Mariana isn't very lucky.

Don't know who Mariana Trench is, sorry :)

But I do love Tennyson's poetry and I am not naming her Maud

Sounds like a pasta sauce!

sounds like a lovely pizza with anchovies and tuna on.

No. It just sounds a tiny bit made up, though it's not, and fussy rather than classic. It will always be misspelled, unlike your other two.

Marianne would be perfect, very dignified and classic and goes well with your others. How about Melissa? Very underused, and lovely with Flora.

I know a Venezuelan woman called Mariana, lovely name.

Am I the only one who thinks it sounds exactly like Marijuana?

I'm not really keen on Melissa - it sounds "hard" somehow.

Well DD1 was named after butter so just continuing the food tradition (pizza?)

Is dd1 called Lurpak? (Sorry! :o)

I do really like Edward and Flora (I know that's not the question)

I love the name Anna.

Bugger, just read the op properly :o
Flora is a gorgeous name, the crappy butter substitute doesn't even register against the name.

Oh goodness, marijuana. You can't call her that, no. It does sound exactly the same!

Anna would indeed fit perfectly with both, and it is lovely.

Mariana Trench is an actual trench, it's the deepest part of the planet, in the middle of the pacific.

Agree with pp that Anna is a lovely name and goes beautifully with your other two.