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?"

@stingofthebutterfly

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

Yep, like 'banana'

With one n, it's Mar-ee-AH-nah. I've heard some Mary-AH-nah, which is also fine.

marry Anna

Not sure why some people are adding an R into it as it doesn’t have an R!

Marry-arna. Midlands here.

Like alrightfella says, Marry-anna if the Marianna spelling.

@2pinkginsplease

marry Anna

Not sure why some people are adding an R into it as it doesn’t have an R!

I would say path like ‘parth’ and bath like ‘Barth’ but they don’t have an r in! That’s kind of how accents work.

Marry-ah-na.

It needs to be maryanna for the way you want it pronounced I read it as Maryarna

Marry Anna, like you want it OP. Gorgeous name.

Marry-ah-na like the trench...

Marry-arna if spelt with one n, marry-anna if spelt with two.

I'm Scottish, so very much in the Marry Anna camp.

However, as others have pointed out, it may be better to use two n's to avoid confusion as others pronounce it differently.

Marry-arna
Arry-arna

I would say marry-arna like the trench. For marry-Anna you’d need to spell it Marianna I think.

I have just suggested Mariana on the nice but underused names list. Love it.
I pronounce it Marry Anna.
But you could double the n to ensure that pronunciation.

@LizzieAnt

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.

Actually, I've been thinking about this a bit more and I think I was wrong before...I don't pronounce them exactly the same. Mariana is a bit more Marry-ah-na, but Ah-na is not the same as Ar-na in my accent, and the difference between Mariana and Marianna (Marry-an-na) is subtle, to my ear at least.

Ah, to me, is the ah sound in Bah-humbug as pronounced by these Americans in the link below. I don't think it's the sound most people mean when they say Marry-arna. Or is it?

forvo.com/word/bah_humbug/

Very much open to correction btw, I could easily have this all wrong

Marry Anna, like the trench

@LizzieAnt the first pronouncation of bah is sort of like it but not the second. Like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=uCq0kzqKIuU

1 n Mari arna
2 n's Mari anna

Marry-Arna

(Also Ari-Arna)

“Ah, to me, is the ah sound in Bah-humbug as pronounced by these Americans in the link below. I don't think it's the sound most people mean when they say Marry-arna. Or is it?”

There was a thread not long ago that went on about that ar... and it turns out people adding an r do not In fact have an Essex like accent where they do add rs to words, they just mean a long a

yes, I would say arna in both names.

BUT when you meet someone, and they say their name is Mariana, then you copy their pronunciation.

I know 2 Talias, and one uses a long a and one uses a short a. I call them by what they told me their name is.

And Maya - about half of the ones I know say May-a (like month of may) and the other half say my-a

Marry-Anna

Thanks Tabulahrasa. I do know people aren't adding r's, that they're just describing the sounds they make when speaking with a non-rhotic accent. It did confuse me at first, but I understand that now.

I suppose I'm not clear what sound people mean when they say 'ar ' though. A pp mentioned it was the same as 'ah', but I think people say this differently in different accents too. Thanks for the link TuftyMarmoset. I say Mariana like that. But is the sound used in that clip the same sound people mean when they write 'ar'? The 'ar' in car sounds different (to me) when said by many of the British speakers in this link for example...

forvo.com/word/car/

Or maybe I'm hearing things at this stage