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[Opinions] Seana (f)
I'm working on the Margaret-Seana Tapp murders article for Wikipedia as part of my true crime work. According to BtN, Seana is pseudo-Latin and was created in the twentieth century when mothers wanted a female form of Sean.
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I'm surprised it's still in the submitted names and not the main database.
It's more pseudo-Irish than pseudo-Latin IMO ... the Latin-like feminine "a" ending, tacked onto an Irish name without changing the Irish. It's more like Alberta than it is like Ludovicus.
But BtN doesn't stand behind what name submitters say. It just says Seanna is a feminine form of Sean.It's one of the few names I prefer with two Ns - Seanna. I like it that way. I also like Deanna more than Deana. For some reason Seanna looks more like it's Shawna, and Seana looks like See-na to me, the way Deana looks like Dee-na.
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I must be stupid because it didn’t even occur to me that this was a variant of Shawna.
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This is much better spelled Shawna or Shauna.
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Interesting.I'm more used to Shauna, which I really like.
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It's better than Shawna and Shauna. Those two looks so unattractive written down. Seana at least looks fine. It might cause pronunciation issues but it's not ugly. I don't mind Sean and Seana but never cared about Shawna, Shauna, Shaun, Shawn. Shawna is actually one of my least favorite names because I find the look of it so unappealing.
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I was saying it wrong, and trying to relate it to Sienna. But no!I think I'd spell it Shawna.True, it doesn't look like it derives from Sean. but it sounds the same.
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Hi !!!Seana is ok as feminine form of it.
I prefer other forms like Jane, Joanna or Jean.
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