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Evangeline is nms but I think it's a nice name and a good way to honor someone special.

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I like Johanna except prn the German way yoe-hahn-nah. The joe-hannah prn seems awkward to me like pronouncing Jacques jak-kwes. Nonetheless, my cousin's wife is named Johanna and most people have americanized the pronunciation to joe-hannah or joe-anna so despite my dislike for the joe-hannah pronunciation it is plausible. As for the spelling Johannah and whether people will think you're honoring your father, the name definitely looks like a combination of Jo and Hannah. To people who know your father's Joe they may assume it is in his honor and in honor of some Hannah. The ommission of the e in Joe doesn't change this because Jo is considered the feminine spelling of Joe.