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Anna is the name of my youngest dd. My dh chose it. I like it yet I don't love it. Overall, I prefer the Anna spelling because that's what I'm used to, however, I've no problem with Ana in cultures where that is the default.

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As far as being overused, in my part of the US (Southeast), we just haven't encountered it that often. My Anna is in her freshman year of college and has encountered less than a handful in her entire life. Now Hannah has been a different story altogether. I suppose it would all depend on where you live.

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As far as the pronunciation, we named Anna with the traditional US pronunciation, however, that all changed when her Kindergarten teacher kept pronouncing it AH-nuh after her best friend. The pronunciation stuck at school and our dd asked us the following year to start calling her AH-nuh. It really hasn't been that much of a problem for her and while I resisted at first, I now actually prefer it while AN-uh seems wrong. :-)

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