Seana/Shawna/Shauna

[lawrencecostin]

Thoughts on this name?
Was rather surprised to discover Seana (Dear Sky News: it's "shawn-uh" not "see-anna") only came into use in the last century. You'd think people would've needed a female form of Sean much earlier.

Also, it's arrogant in the extreme to assume that all English names existed first and other countries just copied them. Maybe jane/janet/John come from the same source but the Irish didn't take those names and come up with sean/sinead/sine as result. Some misguided people might believe you can translate English names to Irish but in reality the Irish names are names in their own right not 'versions of English' ones.

Shauna.

It's not simply a matter of all Irish names existing before and separately from English-language ones.

Some Irish (and Scottish Gaelic ) names, yes, indeed. Probably most of them.

But some other names, used in Ireland, England, Scotland etc etc etc are truly international, in that they all derive from a single ancient name although over millenia they have developed independently in different cultures and language areas.

'John' and 'Sean' (and Ian and Jean and Juan and Ivan and Johannes and Jan and Yann and Janos and Evan etc etc etc) are ALL different forms of an old Hebrew name 'Yochanan'.

The present-day feminine forms of 'Yochanan' - of which there must be 20 or 30 or more, throughout Europe - have similarly developed differently in different cultures/languages. But they all ultimately derive from the same ancient origin.

What the fuck dude.

Seana has major pronunciation issues. I've never seen it spelt like this before, personally.

Out of the other two, Shauna is the most visually pleasing.

Sioned is Welsh not Irish. It's the equivalent of Sinead or Janet.
Shauna seems the best of the three spellings in the OP, but the name seems a bit dated.

@WhittlingIhopMonkey , Jennifer has no association with the name John. Jennifer is from Guinevere, as is Gaenor/Gaynor and Gwenhwyfar.

I met two Seana’s when I worked in America both pronounced it see-ana perhaps it’s an American thing? I’ve never seen the name other than through them so assumed it was See-ana.

Shauna is how I would spell it.

I have worked with a Scottish Sheena.

There is a Shayna Blaze on TV in Australia.

Shauna Ahern writes a blog.