Hannah?

[justhayley]

Hiya I'm very early days pregnant but as my son was nameless until 5 weeks I thought I'd start thinking early lol.

What do we think of the name Hannah? I like it but don't know if it's a bit plain and 80s born baby? I'm an 80s baby and know lots of Hannahs.

Also surname is H do we love or hate alliteration names?

Finally can I have a Hannah if I already have a Noah? Bit of a mouthful and matchy maybe?

I've never met a nice Hannah.

I love the name Hannah and know two and they are lovely but not sure about Hannah and Noah, definitely too matchy....

I don't think it is a mouthful. I think they go well together and I think Hannah is a lovely name!! Even if you didn't think they go well together it's not as if you will be saying their names together all the time? My children have a similar sound at the start of their names but I loved DDs name too much not to use it, despite it sounding a little similar to her brothers.

Not my favourite name tbh. But more importantly with an H surname and Noah going on it's a lot of 'huh'.

I think it is a lovely name, but not with Noah Nd not with an H surname.

I prefer spellings Hana and Hanna, but I think it's a nice name.

Lovely name, fine with Noah.

How about Anna, less aitches.

Hannah is a palindrome and therefore a wonderful name. Can you stretch out the pregnancy and give birth on the 4th of oct. Then the date will be another palindrome 4/10/2014

You could have Eve as a palindrome middle name.

Agghhhhhhhh! I just noticed you have an H surname!!! That's a lot of of 'H' s

I like Hannah but Anna even more.

What about Julia, Lydia, Tessa?

I thing Hannah is beautiful and underused, she will definitely standout in a lovely and classic way against the sea of Olivia's, Sophia's, Isabel's, Ivies, Ava's etc of her generation.

Hannah is a great name, saying you've never met a nice one is stupid. People aren't nice because of their name. My sister is a Hannah and she's as fabulous as her name. You rarely meet Hannah's but it's timeless and stylish. I would definitely use it if DSis wasn't called it.

If you say Hannah and Noah it's fine but saying Noah and Hannah (which I assume you would if he's older) sounds a bit of a mouthful but not ridiculous. I don't think the issue is with your surname beginning with H, but how it sounds IYKWIM? For example, in my opinion, Hannah Howard sounds good, a name you'd remember and the alliteration works nicely but Hannah Harry is a bit wet. You need a good strong sound in there to balance it out a bit.

It fine also if you like a certain sound anyway. For example my mum liked names with a "th" sound so my bro and I both have that sound in the middle of our names. If you love it use it.

I knew loads of Hannah's in the 80's, in fact one of my best friends was a Hannah and she was gorgeous so I think I might be a biased when I say I love it. It's one of my guilt pleasures, I love it but DH doesn't.

I don't think there are many newborns named Hannah so at least she won't be one of many in the class.

I know lots of excellent Hannahs

I like Hannah. But I don't like Noah and Hannah together.

Don't do it. She will be at least one of 20 wherever she works or goes to school for the rest of her life. Ditto Sophie and Amy.

There are hundreds of them round here. They are known as; Hannah Jones, Hannah Cook, Hannah Green etc etc or you wouldn't know which one you were talking about.

"Hundreds of them round here......."
"one of 20 at work/school......"
A bit of an exaggeration I think!!

2 in DD's entire primary school and haven't come across any at playgroups etc- all Ava's and Evie's around here.
Lovely name

I love it :) the only Hannahs I know are in their late teens, I don't think it is overly popular at all.

Don't think there is any issue with Noah & Hannah either.

According to the ONS stats, there were just over 1300 Hannah's born in 2012 (around 1500 if you include the name "Hanna") and just under 730,000 live births. I think you'd have to be pretty unlucky to have 20 in a class at school!!

Beautiful name. And certainly not over popular... Dd has one among her friendship group (age 15) and I know one pre schooler but there certainly aren't millions of them.
All the babies round here tend to be Ava, Evie, Tilly....
The other thing is that Hannah is one of those names which will work brilliantly at every age, from baby to teenager to adult, unlike a lot of names which can sound too cutesy