Callista, Liliana, Marina or Mara...

[CatLoaf]

I don't even know the sex of my baby yet, but seem to think I'm having a girl. 🙊 (Surname begins with M)

What do you think of these names? Fire away, I am prepared! <girls loins>

Mara is nice, Marnie better still

Another vote for Calliista

Lilliana is nice.
Lillian in France is a mans name.

Liliana gets my vote! Marina is also very lovely but having read what you’ve said about your parent’s baby and your big sister I think it would be a lovely tribute in the middle if your parents are ok with that but all your chosen names here end with an a too so I’m not sure any of them go with Marina in the middle x

Liliana will get shortened to Lily and Lily is everywhere.

Calista is nice and I love Callie. Don’t hear that at school.

Mara is ok.

Callista - prefer Calista
Liliana - dreadful. Lily is much nicer but overused.
Marina - 1970s car
Mara - not keen

Marina’s ok, I prefer Lianna to Liliana and Marissa to Mara. Callista is awful.

I think Marissa is awful

Marina 💯great name
check with your parents, they might well be delighted to have your sister’s niece carry her name on

Marla sounds like an evil stepmother, with cheap lipstick stuck in her smoker’s lines

Liliana is way too frilly and Lily done to death, Calista is a bit too fussy for me, but I like Callie so that would be second choice

Mina is grand as a nn for something (including Marina) but too insubstantial as a full name.

If you are still looking then maybe

Lois
Linos
Cassia
Clara
Miranda
Marianne / Marianna

MARA I mean (although same applies to Marla), I like there might be slight echoes of Myra Hindley, but I have a strong feeling there is a female demon called Mara that’s quite well known

Mara also means bitterness, which I guess isn't great!

Yeah can’t say it’s my most favourite name in the world, just nowhere near as awful as Mara or Callista?

I like all apart from Liliana - too fussy. I really do like Mara but the others too.

Nah, Marissa is worse

LOVE Marina 😍

I always think Callista sounds like it should be a drug brand and doesn't work well with Marina if you use that as a middle name.
My thoughts on Liliana may be skewed by the one I know but it just seems like another of those frilly names that will start to merge into all the other Milly, Lily, Ellie type names.

I thought you might like it because, like Marina, Marissa is a Latin name meaning ‘of the sea’, but guess I was wrong. 🤷🏻‍♀️
PS There ain’t no name worse than Callista! 😬

Marianna

Thanks for the suggestion anyway 🙂
Obviously I don't agree about Callista, so I'm not sure why you keep telling me how much you hate it.

To me, mara has a horrible meaning but is also very meh. Just bland. It merges into a sea of Ava, Eva, Eva, Mias and although it’s rarer it’s less nice.

Liliana is okay but has a kind of ‘My house is entirely grey and velvet and I have a Live Laugh Love sign’ vibe.

Callista to me sounds more like a product than a name.

Marina is classy, ancient, strong yet feminine, a saints name… it ticks so many boxes, I love it.

Ooh Marianne is a great name

Callista makes me think of a contraceptive pill or and STD for some reason. Sorry!

Love all of the others though.

Doesn't Mara mean bitter?

Yes, it means bitter

My last kid's name was deemed by some on MN to 'sound like vagina', as well as being disgustingly frilly 😁 So clearly I have a thing for names which sound like STDs/serial organs 🙄