How would you pronounce "Helena"?

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Registered: 03-28-2003
How would you pronounce "Helena"?
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Thu, 02-24-2005 - 5:05pm

How would you pronounce "Helena"?



  • Hel-lay-nuh/ Huh-lay-nuh
  • Hel-len-nuh/ Helen-a
  • Hel-lee-nuh/ Huh-lee/nuh
  • other


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Avatar for tgdye
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 5:11pm

I voted for he-LEE-nah only because I grew up w/a girl who pronounced it that way. Having said that, my daughter is named Elena, pronounced eh-LAY-nah, so if it weren't for the girl I grew up with, I imagine I'd vote he-LAY-nah.

Beautiful name either way!!

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Registered: 07-07-2004
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 5:22pm

We've talked about this name and its pronunciation here before.

Michelle

  Graham (May 1999),

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 02-24-2005 - 5:39pm

I say hu-lee-nah because I've known three different people with that pronounciation. I have known no one else with that name.

BUT - I do say Saint Hu-lay-nah for the town in California and Hellen-ah for the city in Montana because that's how people there pronounce it.

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Registered: 07-11-2003
Fri, 02-25-2005 - 10:00pm
I lived in Montana for 2.5 years so the first thing I thought of upon seeing the name was Helen-a. Which pronounciation do you prefer?
Avatar for devonelisa
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 02-26-2005 - 6:11am
Over here it's Hel-en-a/Helen-a - you see it used as a play on words like the headline in
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Registered: 11-25-2004
Sat, 02-26-2005 - 2:05pm
This is my mom's best friend's name and she pronounces it the first way.