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[Opinions] Johanna
What do you think of Johanna?I'm reading Heidi, so the name is on my mind. Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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I have a cousin with that name, though she spells it Johannah.
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Like it a lot. Feels very versatile, sunny/friendly to elegant/sophisticated. Has strength to it as well, I think. In an English-speaking area, I prefer Joanna, if that’s the desired pronunciation, though I do find the “yo” pronunciation pretty.

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I honestly think Johanna looks prettier than Joanna, but the pronunciation difficulties dissuade me from using it, since I dislike jo-HAN-uh though that's probably how people would read it where I'm from.
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I like it, it sounds gentle.
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Johanna’s pronunciation is a bit too complicated for me. I don’t like Jo-hann-uh, and spent the longest time thinking it was said like Joanna (which I love). Yo-hann-uh is okay, but I don’t like it in English, if that makes sense.
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For the record......I also prefer Joanna. :)
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Love it
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It depends on the pronunciation. I love Yoe-HAH-nah & like Yoe-Hannah. I don't like Joe-Anna and detest Joe-Hannah.
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It's lovely, though I prefer Joanna.
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I think I prefer Joanna to Johanna.
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I prefer it spelt without the h - Joanna looks much more refined and melodious than Johanna.
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I like it when it's pronounced yo-HAN-na which is its original pronunciation. I dislike it when it's pronounced to sound like Joanna. I love Joanna but Johanna pronounced as Joanna was always weird to me. Why is the H silent all of a sudden? It's fine for me to pronounce it as jo-HAN-na but swallowing the H just seems odd to me.So I like it in the pronunciations that include the H and dislike it when the H is forgotten. I do like Joanna, though.But I wouldn't use it, in German speaking countries it was crazy common for some time and is still very popular. I always knew several at the same time.
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Pretty production-line where I live: too many to generalise about, though it is becoming less common as the name stock expands.For use in an English-speaking community, I vastly prefer Joanna: don't enjoy that h in the middle.
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I think I prefer Joanna. Neither is really my 'style', I guess, but Joanna more so. Johanna I like, but not for me.
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I never know how to pronounce it, whether the h is silent or not; I've heard it both ways.
I do really like Joanna, it's very bright and pretty but not fussy.
If it's Yo-Ha-Na, I don't like it at all.
Jo-Han-na feels affected.
But Jo-Ann-A is nice.
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I agree with this pretty much, except I don't dislike the yo-hah-nah pronunciation... I just think it's out of place outside Germany and the Nordic countries.
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