How would you pronounce Helena?

[HinchcliffeandMurgatroyd]

Just that really. Home country/region might have an effect, I think.

It's either/ or. Although I would naturally pronounce it Hel-ay-nuh.

Same as Helen, with a schwa on the end.

I pronounce Eleanor to rhyme with it - and Elinor (almost. I think there's a tiny difference but it's mostly in my head). Elena is a non-English spelling so I pronounce it differently, the same way I pronounce Elaine with a schwa added.

Origins are East Midlands lower-middle-class.

My dd is Helen-uh

Hel Ay Na.

In Germany it would be pronounced Hel ay na

Definitely not!

It's Helen-ah with the emphasis on Hell.

There's no AY sound in Helena in any language!!

Ay as in Day.

I know a helen-a and a hell-ay-na, both spelt Helena

I know two. One is HELL-uh-na and one is hel-EE-na. The latter is often heard in Ireland.

I would assume HELL-uh-na unless told otherwise.

Helen-uh. But I know a He-LAY-nah as well so I usually check first.

Helen-er. I've heard it said the other ways and I'm not keen personally.

Helen-uh, pretty much even stress.
I'm pretty sure I've only ever hear it that way in England, including in A Midsummer Nights Dream, but I had a European colleague who was a HelAYna

Hay - lane - ah.

Swedish girl that lived in our halls at uni.

Helen-uh Bonham Carter
Hell-ay-na Christensen

Hel-ee-na

Helen-ah is my preferred pronunciation and the one I’ve heard most. Central England.

Hell-ay-nah

I have a relative with that name and she's Hellaynah.

I hadn’t even come across the third possibility (hel-even-uh) until this thread.

Hel-een-uh, I mean.

I've heard Helen-uh and Hel-AY-nuh but i only like the first one

As in handbasket, if they're British.

Heleena if Irish

Helayna if German, Slavic, Hispanic

Irish, so Hel-EE-na here.

I've heard that the island Saint Helena is pronounced like this too.

Either Helen a or Hell EH na

I met one recently who pronounced it HELL-ena