Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hannah = Rhymes with banana

Hanna / Hana = Pronounced Haw-na

I think you’ll be fine, OP.

No Hawna. Never heard that. That doesn't even make sense it's more like Hon-na.

You’re not very bright. What PP wrote is literally how Hanna or Hana is pronounced. Have you never heard those names pronounced?

I’m wondering if the confusion is in the “aw” as in “yawn” that OP is saying and maybe some of us are pronouncing differently?

I’m from NY and I say the aw in yawn almost like I say the o in coffee, like a stereotypical NYer would say it. Cawfee. Yawn. Hawna. Is that what you’re going for? Or is it more of an AH sound like ON?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hannah = Rhymes with banana

Hanna / Hana = Pronounced Haw-na

I think you’ll be fine, OP.

No Hawna. Never heard that. That doesn't even make sense it's more like Hon-na.

+1. Hah-na

Anonymous wrote:Hannah = Rhymes with banana

Hanna / Hana = Pronounced Haw-na

I think you’ll be fine, OP.

No Hawna. Never heard that. That doesn't even make sense it's more like Hon-na.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

No matter how you spell it, 99.9% of people will say Hannah like Banana. And, they will think less of you for your creative spelling

DP but I don't think so. Hanna is a very common name. It's not like OP is spelling it the jewish way and expecting people to do the "ch". If I saw Hanna, I would say it OP's way. I guess everyone on this board is really uneducated, uncultured, have never traveled.

Yup, OP will have to constantly correct us ignorant, unsophisticated boors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

No matter how you spell it, 99.9% of people will say Hannah like Banana. And, they will think less of you for your creative spelling

DP but I don't think so. Hanna is a very common name. It's not like OP is spelling it the jewish way and expecting people to do the "ch". If I saw Hanna, I would say it OP's way. I guess everyone on this board is really uneducated, uncultured, have never traveled.

Anonymous wrote: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?

No matter how you spell it, 99.9% of people will say Hannah like Banana. And, they will think less of you for your creative spelling

Hannah = Rhymes with banana

Hanna / Hana = Pronounced Haw-na

I think you’ll be fine, OP.

This is so weird. Of course Hanna is pronounced Hah-nah.

Honor is close enough Op what are you thinking?

Hannah and Hanna are the same to me. I know a Hana at work and she pronounces it Hah-na, not Hawna.

Hunna

Hana

Anonymous wrote:

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

I agree. If I see Hannah or Hanna I think the banana pronunciation. But Hana the other.

This, but I don’t know how widespread my view is, I have a European colleague who pronounces Hawna and spells Hana (German if it matters)

Anonymous wrote:Like Hannah Banana. Sorry.

Yup.