How would you pronounce.....?

[Orangeisthenewbanana]

Lena?

Considering this name and know how I would like it pronounced, but wanted to see what the general consensus was! Don't want endless corrections for evermore if "my way" is not what everyone else would assume .

To rhyme with Tina.

Lay-na or Lee-na. I know 1 of each. Both are correct and acceptable. And easy to pronounce. Lovely name, whichever way.

Leh-na to rhyme with Nena.

Leh-na

Another

Lee- na to rhyme with Tina

Here

Lena if you were English, Layna if European background.

Sorry should be Leena.

Layna unless introduced with a different pronunciation.

Lay na! Would never even have considered it the lee na way...

Ps how do you think it's pronounced??? I'm overly intrigued

This is DD's beautiful name and we pronounce it Lee-na

Lay-na, but other languages may be interfering with my judgement on this.

Lay-na here too

i think the normal english way to pronounce it is 'lee-na'

but i know a little girl called 'lay-na'

up to you i think.

I know one...
Lee na.

Layna.

Lay-na.

Leena, unless I knew they were German, in which case Leyna.

Lee-na.

Though if I saw it with a German-looking surname, I might say Lay-na.

I would know that it could be pronounced Leena or Layna and I would try to avoid using it until someone who knew which it was said it first so that I could follow their lead.

If I had to plump for one or the other and couldn't get away with Lna, I'd go for Leena unless, as AberdeenAngusina says, there was a Germanic surname.

I actually read this earlier and like Debbie knew it could be leyna or leena so tried to decide which would be my first thought and I really couldn't so would probably ask is it either or.

Lay-na is my first thought. I know a little Lena (I think short for Elena) and this is how she pronounces it.

Wow! Thanks for all the responses . I'm actually really surprised that opinion seems fairly evenly split.

My gut feeling was that most people would use Lee-na. My preferred pronunciation would be Lay-na and it doesn't appear that that's completely bonkers so am chuffed . Obviously she'd be introduced as Lay-na but I wouldn't have wanted it to become tiresome constantly correcting if everyone else immediately thought Lee-na.

While I've got you all here, any opinions on Carina? Another thread on here tonight inspired me to look up constellations and that one jumped out at me.

I really like Carina. Isn't it in a Bob Dylan song?