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Hana, Hanna or Hannah?

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Thankyouandgoodnight · 21/06/2008 07:18

Which do you prefer or do you think it doesn't matter?

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Jeffa · 22/03/2009 17:50

Hannah

If she wants to spell it another way when she is older it's her choice

onadietcokebreak · 22/03/2009 17:37

Hannah

dinkymum · 22/03/2009 00:45

Hannah

notsoteenagemum · 21/03/2009 15:05

Dd's middle name is Hanna, its passed down from my Swedish great-great grandma. People always ask if it is with or without h on the end so I don't think it would be a problem, but we live in Wales and I think maybe the Welsh is Hanna too.
Personally Hannah makes me want to say Hann-ahhh.
Don't like Hana sorry.

wotulookinat · 21/03/2009 14:54

Always the palindromic Hannah

RachieB · 21/03/2009 14:49

Hannah

TabithaTwitchet · 21/03/2009 13:59

I like them all. But everyone will just spell it Hannah if you live in the UK, and the poor girl will spend her life correcting people. I think if you use it as a middle name then you have a little more lee-way with unusual forms/spellings... well in my opinion anyway.

jellybeans · 21/03/2009 12:00

Hannah

catepilarr · 21/03/2009 11:02

hana is also a czech version

teacakes · 30/06/2008 21:27

My DD is Hana, it was my DH choice. It means happiness in Arabic as well as the Japanese meaning. We are neither Japanese or Arabic. I was not convinced at first, but now it fits her perfectly.

Whatever you choose it will be right:>

mysteryfairy · 29/06/2008 15:17

Hanna is the nurse in The English Patient and for that reason I've always liked that spelling

PortAndLemon · 28/06/2008 09:39

Hannah, unless you or your DH/DP have a cultural connection to one of the other spellings.

babyinarms · 27/06/2008 23:04

Hannah...love it.

HanniJay · 27/06/2008 21:28

Hannah, absolutely. Do have a little bit of a biased opinion though....

BexieID · 25/06/2008 20:46

oops, wrong Hannah thread!

BexieID · 25/06/2008 20:46

I just remembered I work with a Hannah whose surname begins with a H.

OldBint · 25/06/2008 14:24

I know a few "Hana"'s, but that is due to Japanese. I think it is seen (IME, anyway)as a very good "crossover" name for children of mixed Japanese/English parentage - means flower in Japanese.

So I would not necessarily assume you were illiterate

edam · 25/06/2008 14:19

Hannah, unless you have good reason to use a different spelling - like the poster whose mother is Polish or something.

BexieID · 25/06/2008 14:17

Hannah.

Hopeoverexperience · 24/06/2008 14:17

Hannah - lovely name.

Flum · 23/06/2008 23:26

Hannah, lovely.

hana · 23/06/2008 23:20

hana isn't just if you can't spell or are trying to be trendy though

I love hana or hannah

Collision · 22/06/2008 21:22

Hannah

daffodill6 · 22/06/2008 21:14

Hannah

hayley2u · 22/06/2008 21:00

hannah all the others dont look nice and will will be getting called wrong name all life