How would you pronounce Elena?

[Goscat]

Latin family loving in the UK. We want to use this name but are unsure how Brits (Scots specifically will pronounce it?)

It should be Eh-LEH-na

I have a Spanish friend who had this issue and she did have to correct.
this is a name that over time different places have adapted to have different ways to pronouncing it without changing the spelling

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I have a friend who wanted to use Elena but didn't want the girl to spend her whole life with different pronunciations so she spelled it Elayna.

I'm not a fan of spellings like Neve and Ailie but it makes it easier for the child if you live in an area where these are not common names.

El-lane-uh (I'm British but not Scottish)

Beautiful name.

I'm not sure what you are referring to. I'm talking about a couple of people not pronouncing the 'n' sound. Nothing about 'uh' 🫤

One person came back and said theirs was a typo. You came back and said yes that's how it's pronounced in England 🫤. To my comment about the lack of 'n' sound

@AllProperTeaIsTheft

See here is the post and your reply. I'm talking about a lack of 'n'. And you say yes that's how it's pronounced in England.

I don't understand the 'uh' sound at the end but there's no way anybody would omit the n sound in Elena.

ELL -uh - na with stress on the first syllable

BUT my friend with an Elena pronounced above quite often has to correct peple who think it's Ell-AY-na

I've only met one Elena and she pronounces it El-Ay-Nuh but the Ay bit is sort of softer and shorter than an "Ay" sound in English would usually be, it's hard to explain!

I imagine her mum wanted it pronounced the Spanish way and it just sounds a bit more "ay" with an English accent!

Scot here, and would pronounce it as you wrote.