How would you pronounce Zana ?

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My friend assumed people would pronounce her child’s name Zana like Zah-nah as in Suzanna but several people have pronounced it as Zar-na

This. It needs a double consonant to achieve the pronunciation your friend wants, in English.

Exactly this.

If she wanted the Suzanna sound then she should have spelt it double n.

Of all the connotations, Zanna is the only way I'd never guess to pronounce it. Because you typically only get that sound with a double n.

I know two Zanas, both pronounced zahn-uh, rhymes with banana

Down south if that helps!

Zar Na

Zar-na

Za-nah so similar to Susana

Like Zarna and rhymes with Lana and Banana. Or Zayna

Zah-nah

Oooh there must have been a keyword in my above post! Zah-na like the brand name of alprazolam. That is less helpful because you may need to google the brand name 😂but you'll recognise it and know the pronunciation I mean!

Zar-na

Żar-na similar to Sara (not Sarah).

Za-na (or Tsa-na).
If it's supposed to be Zay-na, then spell it Zayna.
It's definitely not Zar-na because there's no r in it.

It needs an r to be ZaRna though.
It's possible to get the 'anna' sound with one n e.g. Lana, Jana, Tana.

This.

Zaynah

Ber-tee.

If you have to ask how to pronounce a name please don't saddle your child with it as they will also be asked for ever more!

I read it as Zar-na, like Jana and Zara.

To rhyme with Hannah. Zan-ah.

100% Zar-na

my best friend at school was named Zana and pronounced it that way so it wouldn’t occur to me there were any other way of pronouncing it

Like Zara with an n

but Lana and Jana are pronounced with an R sound? Or have I misunderstood your post?

Zarna

I would pronounce it as Zah-na or Zay-na.