Helena/Elena

[monkiesayswoo.livejournal.com]

How does one pronounce these names...

Helena (ha-lay-na OR Hel-la-na)

Elena (ah-lay-na OR El-la-na)

Also, what do you think of the names? The first is a family name of my friend.

Comments

[after-the-ashes.livejournal.com]

Hell in a for Helena and Elle lay na for Elena.

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

hel-lay-nuh and E-lay-nuh

[lavandersparkle.livejournal.com]

Helena ( HA LAY NA )
Elena ( AH LAY NA )

[lacuna.livejournal.com]

El-lay-na for Elena, but Helena really depends. The Helena I've known was Helen-a, as is Helena Bonham-Carter, but Helena Christensen is Hel-lay-na, so it really is just parental preference (and nationality, I guess). I think either is lovely.

[sharleysmom.livejournal.com]

I like Helena its Halayna

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

while I know they can be pronounced either way when I see them I automatically think
Hell-en-ah
Ell-en-ah

[imaginationfig.livejournal.com]

I know a baby named Elena pronounced Eh-leh-na. Her 3-year-old sister made sure that I knew how to pronounce it correctly, because I kept calling her Eh-lay-na

[o-honeybee-o.livejournal.com]

i say Hel-la-na and El-la-na

[decembermalice.livejournal.com]

Helena - Heh - Lay - Nuh
Elena - I know both an E - lay - nuh and Uh - leh - nuh.

[super-bitch06.livejournal.com]

Hu-lay-na and Eh-lay-na

I like Elena, though I'm not sure about the spelling, and I don't like Helena

[queen-mab.livejournal.com]

Helena = HELL in uh
Elena = uh LAY nuh

[imaloserbabyxx.livejournal.com]

Hell-ay-nah
Ell-ay-nah.

(pretty much the same, without the H on the 2nd)

although personally, i prefer "Eleni" over "Elena"

[sadblueyes.livejournal.com]

i say eh leh nah and hell eh nah.

as my boyfriend put it, "it is ell a nah, unless you say ahlayfant."

i laughed almost uncontrollably for a few minutes.

his older sisters name is elena, and they pronounce it eh leh nah. (with spanish accent)

[zante.livejournal.com]

Hell-ay-nah and El-ee-na

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Helena--either is find, the second is more British-sounding.

the second Ah-lay-na.

El-la-na would be Elana or Alana.

[amberskye72.livejournal.com]

My mom's middle name is Elena and she has always pronounced it more like the ah-lay-na.

Elena is my top favorite for a girl's name as I expecting.
I was just looking through the posts and I had to comment as I don't see that name as much.

I always liked it and she was named after my grandma's little sister who was killed in War War 2.