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Elena
What do you think of Elena?How do you pronounce it?.
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I only really like it pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable. And the seconnd syllable to be long, not like eh but more like ay, eh-LAY-na. Do you think most people would pronounce it that way or would they say ELL-eh-na?Do you prefer Elena or Helena?
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I pronounce it eh-LAY-nuh and almost all of the time, people have pronounced it that way (99% of the time). The only time I get EL-en-nuh is when the CVS automated voice is telling me I have an Rx ready to pick up. Between Elena and Helena, I prefer Elena although I do like Helena. What I really dislike is Helen due to the emphasis on the first syllable. That a on the end makes all the difference to me.
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I like Elena and have always pronounced it as “eh-LAY-nuh”. Helena is rather dated.
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I say e-LEN-a. Ellen-a sound weird to me like someone wanted to say Helena bur forgot the H.
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I always thought of ehLAYna and prefer that. I actually asked this question years ago and was told it was most commonly Ellen-ah so I abandoned the name. I like both Elena and Helena but prefer Elena.
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I'd say Ellen-uh unless instructed to do otherwise. I think Helena is far prettier.
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I like Elena but I'd pronouce it as eh-LEEN-a unless told otherwise. I love Elaina, pronounced eh-LAY-na, and would use it in real life except that I dislike Eliana and I worry that it would be misread as this a lot. I also dislike the nickname Ellie which some people may use for Elaina.I have mucked around with the idea of Alaina as that eliminates my problems with Elaina but it doesn't look as nice and I think it would get lost among all of the other A names around ("What did Jess call her kid, again?" "I don't know; Ariana, Amelia, Alana, something like that."). I like Olena but, again, I would pronounce it as oh-LEEN-a. Olaina is stretching things a bit too far, for me. I don't like Helena at all.
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It's ok, I tend to pronounce it ell en a
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I prefer EL-en-a so it's just Ellen with an a on the end.
I've met some called e-LAY-na, which I don't really like because in my accent it just sounds like Alaina. I do like e-LEH-na, but that's not as common where I am. What people would say automatically definitely depends on where you live. I like the look of Elena more than Helena, but both are good.
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I've always liked Elena, pronounced eh-LAY-nah; and I vastly prefer it to Helena. I also prefer Ellen to Helen (don't like the Hel- beginning).
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