Today’s birth announcement comes to you courtesy of a mama who emailed me a few short days before her due date hoping for thoughts/fresh suggestions, and I have to tell you that I LOVE last minute emails! It’s so exciting and such a privilege to be invited into the whirlwind of the newborn time.
So this mama was expecting her fifth baby, a girl, and her other kiddos are named:
Jillian Rose
August Robert
Theodore (Teddy) Joseph
Noelle Teresa
And just a few short days after I got back to her, her little one was born and given the amazingly beautiful, meaningful name of Maristella Katherine! There are so many things about her name that I love! I mean, the first is the obvious: it’s SO Marian, with Maristella being a version of the Marian title Stella Maris. And I love that it has two L’s in it, like her sisters, but none of the sisters’ names are matchy. Nice job!
Congratulations to the whole family, and happy birthday Baby Maristella!!
Maristella Katherine
Sancta Nomina 
Very nice!! I love Stella Maris.
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I’ve never heard of Maristella! It’s so beautiful and goes perfectly with her siblings names. and I love that there is the classic Katherine in the middle to balance out the differentness of Maristella 🙂
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Divine perfection! That’s a very pretty name, too, har har 😉
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😀 babies totally are ❤
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Gorgeous name! Congrats. 🙂
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Beautiful, unique name! Love it.
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So lovely! Never heard of Maristella but I love it!
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[…] … I’m dying to talk about that other Marian name we were all atwitter about yesterday: Maristella! Several of you said you’d never heard of it before, and I hadn’t either until someone […]
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Welcome Maristella Katherine! Sacred Heart of Jesus, please bless you!
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Katherine is such a beautiful name…my favorite spelling…:)
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Mine too! 😉
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Love!! Perfect name choice. And such a cutie.
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[…] Another way to work with the title Stella Maris but solve the middle name issue is to use the variant Maristella. It’s a totally legit variant of the Stella Maris title — you can see a beautiful holy card with that version here — and Tara and her hubs could still use Stella as the everyday call name. It takes a middle name a bit easier than Stella Maris as well — something short like Jane or Clare would be lovely with it, but long can work too — this mama named her baby Maristella Katherine! […]
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[…] daughter Maristella, which is a totally legitimate variant of the Marian title (birth announcement here, and I posted a pictureposted a picture of Our Lady, Star of the Sea on my Instagram that had […]
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[…] than me? I hope!😀 ) But if they were to put Maris together with Stella, as in Maristella (as this mom did, gorgeous!), then I think its meaning is more obvious. Maristella would be gorgeous for them, and […]
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[…] think we all got swoony over this name when this mama used it for her lovely little lady! A beautiful name to honor Our Lady, who did indeed converse with […]
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[…] a nickname, and Maristella Frances/is sounds a lot better than Stellamaris Frances/is. I posted a birth announcement for a Maristella not too long ago, such a beautiful name! I’ve also thought Maristelle would be a gorgeous variant […]
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[…] (2) Stella (or Maristella) Speaking of the Ave Maris Stella, what about Stella? It’s Italian and Marian and ends in A like Ezra, but is decidedly non-matchy with it. If they wanted to up both the Marian and Italian aspect, they could use the lengthier Maristella, which is such a confection of a name! I’ve done two birth announcements for baby Maristellas, here and here. […]
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[…] (5) Maristella I know Trish said she doesn’t care for Mary, but what about something like Maristella? It reminds me of Genevieve and Veronica (and Emmeline, Annalise, and Seraphina) because of its length and femininity (which probably means her hubby won’t care for it, oh dear), but both Maris and Stella can be nicknames for it, as well as some other creative options like Mia, Mari, Molly, Missy, Milla and Mella (I could see Trish’s husband particularly liking Mia and Molly). Maristella is a reversal of the Marian title Stella Maris (Star of the Sea). Two Sancta Nomina readers have daughters named Maristella: here and here. […]
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