Anonymous wrote:Even reading this post it took me a long time to understand it wasn’t Hannah.

+1 Very much this. She will be called Hannah pretty much exclusively, OP. But I think that some of the people who give their kids names with invented or completely non-intuitive names like correcting and giving a little spiel about how they decided on the name. So if you like correcting people and soapboxing, go for it.

Like Honali in Puff the Magic Dragon?

Everyone will call her Hannah

The term you're looking for is "aristocratic A".

Even your post is confusing.

*HASSLE*

It’s like Mary/Merry/marry - in some regions, people use the same sound and pronounce them all the same way. No chance you can get everyone to differentiate the sounds, much less use a specific one.

Jews will get it right (especially older ones). Japanese people too, if you spell it Hana. No one else.

Anonymous wrote:We want to name DD Hanna (sounding like Princess Anna not little orphan Annie). It’s a family name and we really like it but can totally anticipate constant mispronunciations. How often do you think people would call her Hannah? Is it constant enough of a hassle that it’s not worth it?

I don't get the problem. Hanna and Hannah are the same. How would they call her Annie? Personally, I would add the H. Without it looks incomplete.

Even reading this post it took me a long time to understand it wasn’t Hannah.

I didn't even realize Hanna without the h is pronounced Hawh-nah. Which I am just assuming is what you mean. I agree, 100% of the time mispronunciation.

Anonymous wrote:People will call her Hannah 100% of the time

True facts.

They will mispronounce it all the time. But so what.

People will call her Hannah 100% of the time

Hana.

We want to name DD Hanna (sounding like Princess Anna not little orphan Annie). It’s a family name and we really like it but can totally anticipate constant mispronunciations. How often do you think people would call her Hannah? Is it constant enough of a hassle that it’s not worth it?