http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/06\/30\/baby-girl-marasco\/<\/a>.\u00a0 Our older daughter is now 3 years old and we love her name (Malia Aiko Marasco) and get compliments on it all the time.\u00a0 We are facing the impossible task of naming another girl and have been so imtimdated by it that we have left it to the last minute.\u00a0 Our next (and last) baby is due in September but it looks like she will be early as well.<\/p>\nMy name is Rebecca Marasco and my husband is of Japanese and Italian descent and his name is Marc.\u00a0 We are open to another Hawaiian or Japanese name, but it’s not required.\u00a0 We don’t have any family names we are conscidering this time but an “E” name would be nice to honor my grandmother.\u00a0 We are almost out of time and don’t have any names we love and can’t find any names we like more than Malia.<\/p>\n
Our top contender (Seneca) was actually the runner up for our older daughter.\u00a0 It was a name I liked all along, but my husband didn’t care for it the first time.\u00a0 Now it’s his favorite too as he said it just took 3 years to warm up to it.\u00a0 I can’t help but feel that if it wasn’t good enough for Malia it isn’t good enough for the new baby.\u00a0 I was thinking of Seneca Meadow Marasco but I worry it sounds too much like a place.<\/p>\n
The only other name I liked was Aria (husband doesn’t like Ariana) as I also like the nick name Ari.\u00a0 I do worry that it is getting too popular and is a little too similar to Malia.\u00a0 I also like Everly and or middle names like Echo, Nova or Meadow.<\/p>\n
My husband likes the name Hazel, but that’s just too old fashioned to me.\u00a0 He also like Lucia (which I found too close to Malia) as well as Leila and Aria.<\/p>\n
We would like a name that pronouces easily, isn’tt too similar to her sister’s name, isn’t too popular but still sounds familiar.\u00a0 Besides Seneca being a boy’s name, we are generally not interested in boy’s names turned into girl’s names.<\/p>\n
Thank you so much for your help and we look forward to your advice and the great advice from your readers,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Every single name except the name Malia could by definition be put in a category titled “Wasn’t Good Enough for Malia,” so I’d suggest starting by re-naming that category. Another good category title could be “Wasn’t the Right Name for Malia”: her name was MALIA, not Seneca. Perhaps the name Seneca is exactly right for this baby, and that’s why it wasn’t right for your first baby. If you both love it and nothing else seems right, I think you’ve got your name.<\/p>\n
We had something similar happen at our house. When we were expecting our firstborn, I had a name high on my list but Paul didn’t like it. When we were expecting our second baby, I had the name on my list again—and Paul chose it as his favorite, and we used it even though I felt a little weird about using a name he’d previously completely rejected. And it worked out even better than I’d hoped: the actual name is a name that seems happy and easy-going to us, and our secondborn’s temperament matches the way we see the name—but our firstborn’s doesn’t. For us, our image of the name would have been a misfit on our firstborn, but it was perfect on our secondborn.<\/p>\n
Seneca Meadow does sound a little place-like to me, but not overly. Do you tend to use first-and-middles in your family—that is, do people call your first daughter Malia Aiko? If so, then I’d probably look for another middle name. If not, and if Meadow is your favorite middle name, I think I’d be more on the side of choosing what you like: middle names tend to disappear into Paperwork Only after the birth announcements go out.<\/p>\n
If Meadow continues not to sit right with you, I’d suggest looking at the names that didn’t work as first names (Hazel, Lucia, Leila, Aria). Seneca Aria is my favorite: it lets you use that name without worrying about its popularity or its similarity to Malia, and Seneca Aria is nicely parallel to Malia Aiko.<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Rebecca writes:<\/p>\nthank you again for choosing our question for your website and thank you for running it in time for us to have a little while to digest all of the information before our daughter’s early arrival.\u00a0 We still didn’t have a name until after she was born but we are very happy to introduce Seneca Alani Marasco.\u00a0 Your advice made it easier to realize that her name has always been Seneca and feeling good about that.\u00a0 Your reader’s comments did give us pause about not wanting to offend people, but as we had a connection to Seneca Lake after a fair about of research on it’s Greek roots, wide spread use for naming and places in multiple states, the company, institutions as well as a name that was bestowed upon a tribe– we felt comfortable with it’s general use.\u00a0 The most exciting find on your reader’s comments (besides some kind words about The Seneca Falls Convention) was bringing up the name Alani again for my consideration.\u00a0 My husband brought it up before and I dismissed it– but seeing it in the comments made us add it to the list.\u00a0 We thought it was a beautiful name that worked nicely with Seneca (as it was short and feminine) as well as matching her sister as it’s Hawaiian and an A name like Aiko.\u00a0 Thank you very much to you and your readers.<\/p>\n
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Rebecca writes: Naming our first daughter was extremely difficult and due to an early delivery we enlisted your help but didn’t get decide on a name until she was already born in the hospital.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2010\/06\/30\/baby-girl-marasco\/.\u00a0 Our older daughter is now 3 years old and we love her name (Malia Aiko Marasco) and get compliments on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-23J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}