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I have known two people named Hanna and both pronounced it the way you want to pronounce it (the Eastern European/Nordic way).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you want haw-nah definitely go for Hana.

It. Will. Not. Matter.

Hana, Hanna, and Hannah will all elicit the "Hannah Banana" pronunciation.

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I think your only shot at getting the pronunciation you want is to invent a spelling like Hawnah or Hauna, and even then I wouldn’t guarantee it. I have an unusual name, and even though it is fairly straightforward, you’d be amazed at how many different ways it has been mangled, and that’s not counting all the times it’s been “corrected” to fit their expectations.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP you will never get any one to go along with yawn-uh. Sorry.

It’s crazy because this is actually the original pronunciation. Chana is the Hebrew name. Hawn-uh (like Goldie Hawn) is the English variation. And Hannah/Anne came from that

Obviously the English spelling is Hannah/Hanna/Hana — I just meant the pronunciation is originally more like Goldie Hawn

Anonymous wrote:OP you will never get any one to go along with yawn-uh. Sorry.

It’s crazy because this is actually the original pronunciation. Chana is the Hebrew name. Hawn-uh (like Goldie Hawn) is the English variation. And Hannah/Anne came from that

I would probably say it like rhymes with banana, but I do think that spelling it Hanna would make it easier to remember the haw-nuh pronunciation? But yeah, she's going to get a lot of rhymes-with-banana pronunciation in her life, so it depends how comfortable you are with that.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you want haw-nah definitely go for Hana.

It. Will. Not. Matter.

Hana, Hanna, and Hannah will all elicit the "Hannah Banana" pronunciation.

+1

OP you will never get any one to go along with yawn-uh. Sorry.

Anonymous wrote:I think if you want haw-nah definitely go for Hana.

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I would pronounce "Hanna" like "man-ah." "Hana" like "dawn-ah."

Anonymous wrote:I think if you want haw-nah definitely go for Hana.

It. Will. Not. Matter.

Hana, Hanna, and Hannah will all elicit the "Hannah Banana" pronunciation.

Anonymous wrote:Like Hannah Banana. Sorry.

^This.

I think if you want haw-nah definitely go for Hana.

PP. All the people I've heard talking about Hanna Andersson children's clothes use the banana pronunciation.

Like Hannah Banana. Sorry.

We want to use Hanna which is a family name.
We say it haw-nuh (like yawn) not hanne-uh (like banana).
In my mind Hannah and Hana both have pretty assumed pronunciations. But what about Hanna? How would you assume one says it?