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I don't care for Ivana--I only think Ivana Trump.

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But I love Iva, which is a variation of Ivana and Ivan that is also common in Eastern Europe. I went to college with a beautiful Czech woman named Iva. I thought the spelling was nice because the pronunciation is obvious (in contrast to Eva, which can be pr. Iva or Ava). I suppose it's possible that someone might try to pronounce it Eye-va (like Ivy), but that's kind of stretching it.

Ivana Trump.

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and Ivana can be turned into "I vanna" (I wanna)

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Otherwise its a very pretty name, and I quite like it. Much more then Ivanka, Ivana's daughter.

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Siri

pretty name

I prefer Joanna , because I immediatly think of the Austin Powers character Ivana Humpalot > however, I used to like this naem before Austin Powers

Whoops. Soz for double post

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This message was edited 1/17/2005, 12:38 PM

I don't care for it. I just don't like the sound of it (along with the male name Ivan, which I don't think sounds nice, and isn't very masculine). I much prefer Joanna - it's much nicer, I think.

I like it.

I knew a little girl called Ivana and her nn was Ivvy, I thought it was cute. She had a big brother called Dejan (Day-an). I thought the names made a good sibset, but don't think they would work unless you had a Serbo-Croatian background
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This message was edited 1/17/2005, 9:29 AM