How would you pronounce

[Shasha17]

Mariana?

This name is on my list, as an honor name to someone who pronounces it like "Marry-Anna". I adore this pronunciation and also this spelling.

I have seen that some people would pronounce this "Marry-arna" which I don´t especially like.

(Just a thought: I also pronounce Ariana like "Arry-Anna" - do some people say "Arry-arna?"

You need to spell it with a double n if you want it to be pronounced Anna. Ana is usually pronounced arna.

@521Jeanie

In my world: Mariana would be marry-arna Marianna would be marry-anna

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I'd say it the same way as you. Lovely name.

A double consonant after the vowel sound shortens the vowel to /a/ rather than the long vowel sound of /ar/ or /ah/.
So ana is pronounced arna/ahna and Anna is Anna

You can pronounce it as you wish. The. Mariana I know pronounces it Marry Arna.

(my son pronounces it marijuana!)

The Liana I know pronounces it Lee Anna.

I’d pronounce it marry anna there’s no r in it so not sure where that comes into it. Same with Ariana I pronounce it ari anna.

Pretty names, I have a northern Scottish accent although mim is English so do pronounce some words/names differently than friends. Perhaps just add the extra N? If it’s an issue with some people’s pronunciation.

I'd be confused about how to pronounce it. I'd wonder whether it was intended to sound the same as Marianna ie MarryAnna or to be pronounced Marry Ayna because of the single n.

Marry ah na

If you want it to be pronounced Marry-anna I would spell it Marianna, as other posters have suggested.

The Mariana Trench (the deepest ocean trench on Earth), is pron. marry-arna (which is the American pronunciation - Anna being Arna in the US).

With one n in the name, most people will pronounce it Mari-ahna.

I’d also pronounce it Ari-ahna.

But it doesn’t matter how people think it should be pronounced, if they pronounce it ‘wrong’, you correct them, and they pronounce it correctly thereafter.

DD has a name which can be pronounced three ways, so of course some people get it ‘wrong’ when they first pronounce it. Once they know her pronunciation, they don’t make the mistake again.

And yes, I think the Mariana Trench will mean most people do default to Mari-ahna.

Marry Arna, Midlands.

I'd spell it Marrianna

As a lot of others have said, I’d pronounce it Marry Arna.

If you added another n, it would be Marry Anna.

As a PP has said - for all the people with rhotic accents getting confused by the inclusion of the ‘r’, when people with non-rhotic accents pronounce ‘ar’, it sounds like ‘ah’.

So ‘Ana’, ‘ah-na’ and ‘arna’ all sound the same.

How much of a problem the pronunciation will be depends on where you live OP.
For what it's worth I say Mariana and Marianna exactly the same (with anna at the end). Likewise the Mariana Trench. I'm in Ireland.

@LoveGrooveDanceParty

As a PP has said - for all the people with rhotic accents getting confused by the inclusion of the ‘r’, when people with non-rhotic accents pronounce ‘ar’, it sounds like ‘ah’.

So ‘Ana’, ‘ah-na’ and ‘arna’ all sound the same.

Except they don't...I know the sound you mean by Ar-na, and ah-na sounds different (at least to me with my rhotic accent). More confusion Thanks though.

Marry-anna

I think most people would in the UK, esp as Marianne is getting more popular right now.

If you want the US Marry-Arna pronunciation it's going to be a bit of a lifetime of corrections for her.. so I'd pick something else. Not sure using one n would help a whole bunch..

I’d say marry-anna. There’s no r!!

@521Jeanie

In my world: Mariana would be marry-arna Marianna would be marry-anna

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Ma-ree-ah-nah

You need two n's to make it marry-Anna

@521Jeanie

In my world: Mariana would be marry-arna Marianna would be marry-anna

Likewise. I'm SE England

Marry-Anna here but I agree spelling it Marianna would reduce confusion

Ma-ri-ana

Or like the song - ma-reee-an-ahhhhh

Marry Arna

Arry Arna

As PP said, you'd have to spell it Marianna for people to unanimously pronounce it your way