What is the best way to spell this name?

[Ash85sam]

Hello, I want to name my baby girl Dhyana.

It is pronounced as shown in the two videos below.

Pronunciation 1:

So how would it be written in Sanskrit?
If you have to transliterate(?) it to another alphabet, then you may as well go for the most phonetic spelling possible (in the alphabet where you are living).

I would pronounce it the same as Princess Diana, if you spell it Dhyana.
If it matters to you that people avoid that pronunciation, then I'd go for a more obviously not said like Diana spelling.

Diana is a name I wanted for DC4 (not a girl) so fine name indeed, but I think it's not what you want.

Wikipedia says what I wrote before was the Sanskrit.

I'm a Spanish speaker and the name is spelled the same as in English.
I'm not sure what the H is for?
In Spanish we would pronounce it Diaana

I’ve lived in the US before. Without a doubt pick Diana. I’m generalising here...but I feel like the UK is more accepting of cultured names than the US

Deana

@lljkk the exact phonetic spelling is tough in English as there is no letter for 'the' sound in English.

The 'dh' sound in this name is most close to the first 'the' sound in the word 'smother'. Then the rest is 'yana'. Do the closest would be the-yana. The-yana is another option but the 'th' sound should be closer to 'the' and 'th' in 'thursday'.

In Sanskrit the DH would not be pronounced as "th", though - it's an aspirated D, so literally D+H.

As it's a concept from Buddhism, I would spell it the way that the concept is normally spelled in English. So, Dhyana as in your thread title.

Ok I'm a Brit and I would automatically put the emphasis on the way the first video says it - Dee-yah-nah. To me it looks nothing like Diana and I wouldn't associate it.

However the first person sounds as if she's saying Tlee-ah-nah or perhaps Lee-ah-nah? Is it actually a D sound? That would be more bothersome for me.

But people will always mangle names somehow! Go with what you love. It's not a difficult name to say at all, and it's lovely.

Oh sorry missed your update!

You should go live in Wales. The sound you describe is pretty much the Welsh 'dd' which is one letter in the Welsh alphabet. It's easiest to describe it to an English person as the th in mother or father rather than the th in think.

So Ddeana. Get yourself down to Carmarthen and spell it that way, you'll be landed

I can't hear those differences .
Dtheeanna?

Reminds me of Indian friend who has a Kiron. It's said completely differently said from Kieran (she tells me). I smile nicely coz I can't hear the difference that she is adamant exists.

I have a friend called Deanna prounounced like video 1. Never met another

The new MP for Bishop Auckland is Dehenna Davison (people say it 'Dee-anna')