Alana

[LittleDonkin]

Opinions on Alana with middle name May

Lovely.

I love the name Alana, but have lots of family called Alan so can't go for it.

Alana May is lovely

black veeeeeeelvet in that little booooooy's smiiiiiiiiiiiiile

I like it

Also like Alanis

Will you pronounce it:

A-lar-na

or

A-la-na (equal emphasis - more like alan with an a at the end iyswim)

May is an extremely popular middle name at the moment. Personally, I would put it with something else.

I would pronounce it A-la-na. I would like to use May as a middle name for any girls name I use as it is my birth month.

one of my most favourite people in the whole world is called Alana. I love it.

always think of Alana Stewart - but probably just showing my age...

Who is Alana Stewart????

not to my taste sorry

knew someone whose name was spelled Alana but pronounced "Al-ay-na". Nice name but gives a lot of scope to mispronounce

Love it!

I have an Elana-Rose and an Olivia-Mae so I think your name choices are fab!

littledonkin she was married to Rod....

Oh right Jollster!!! Thanks!!

I love it, though was also thinking of Alanis (or Alani) to balance out the amount of 'a's

I know three Alanas and they are all A-lar-na. That sort of Alana May has a good rythym (although it is true May is a very popular middle name, I don't think that really matters). 'Alan with an extra a' sounds a bit odd to me tbh - I'd not associated the name with Alan before!

I love it - I know 2 and they're both fiery, independent and opinionated people with very kind hearts which means it gets my thumbs up

One of them spells it Alanna and pronounces it more like Alan with a na on the end, the other is A-lar-na

I don't really like the sound of it...Alana sounds a bit too whiney to me. I really like the name May or Mae though.

I don't like it. To me it's dated and a bit 'wet'.

But I know 3 couples who have named their dds Alana in the past 18 months so it's obviously popular!

i really don't like it. I know an awful one.

I love it. It is DD's 2nd name (1st name Catherine). We chose it as her paternal GF is Alan.
But even other family members missed the connection!

The two I know spell it Alannah and pronounce it a-LAN-a (emphasis on the middle syllable) which is very close to the Irish origin of the name, a term of endearment meaning 'dear child'.

I like it. I am ilana (pronounced eeelana) so am probably biased towards it.

I like it

I also like Serena