Hanna - no H

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Baby girl no.2 is due in July. The only name we both like is Hanna, but without the H at the end, we just don’t like how it looks.
Our older daughter is Bella.
Do you think we are ok to use Hanna without the H on the end? We really don’t like Hannah with the extra H so it would be back to the drawing board which is devastating as I love Hanna !

I think Hanna is much nicer without the second h

I think you are maybe trying too hard to make it match with your other daughter's name, so that they are both 5 letters long, with double letters and end with an 'a'. I know 3 Hannah's all spelt as such. Hanna looks incomplete to me and my eyes want to read it as Henna.

I don't really like Hannah as a name, it's biblical for a start. Feels sort of horribly wholesome. I also don't like invented spellings.

You love 'Hanna' but you're asking for opinions, and this is what I think.

I love the name Hannah but I think spelling it Hanna will mean you and your dd will have a lifetime of spelling her name out to other people as most people will automatically write Hannah.

my name has 4 different spellings and I have to spell it EVERY SINGLE TIME. Thanks mum for that one! 😂 it does get annoying,

This was my mil's name. She was Scandinavian and it was pronounced more like Henna.
I think you should do as you like - it's not that big a deal imo to correct how people spell it. They'll get used to it and the odd mistake doesn't matter, so long as school and doctors have the right spelling.

My dd has a name that people continuously spell or pronounce incorrectly, but it's a beautiful name (imo) so worth a bit of inconvenience sometimes.

@WaitingForMojo , it isn't a traditional spelling in the UK. It might have been used but the Welsh biblical Hannah was 'Hannah'.

Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this but Hanna is a surname in Northern Ireland.

I think there’s a risk with the second child of being drawn to names that subconsciously remind you of the first child’s name. I was definitely strangely drawn to the name Ian for this reason as it was very close to our first child’s name. I wonder if the name Bella is making an ‘h’ on the end feel strange to you.
I also wonder whether the name Annabella is subconsciously drawing you towards Hanna too, as a match for Bella.

I know two Hannas - one from a muslim family and the other Italian. I think it's a perfectly well known variant of a beautiful name. No reason why you can't use it, even if you are White British.

Also, although I know countless Hannahs, they're all adults. I think it's quite a fresh name for a child now. Classic but not in a popular phase currently.