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HelpAlana, Alanna or Alannah (more)
Which one would you choose and why?
Does any spelling look really bad to you?
Which ones do you pronounce as ah-LAH-na and which ones as ah-LAN-na?
If you wanted ah-LAH-na how would you spell it?
Do the different spellings give you different images?
For example to me Alana is always a surfer or skater girl who lived in California or Australia, has tanned skin and blond hair. Alannah to me is an Irish girl with freckles and curly brown hair who lives in the countryside and Alanna is brunette with blue eyes.
Any associations?
Dated?
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Does any spelling look really bad to you?
Which ones do you pronounce as ah-LAH-na and which ones as ah-LAN-na?
If you wanted ah-LAH-na how would you spell it?
Do the different spellings give you different images?
For example to me Alana is always a surfer or skater girl who lived in California or Australia, has tanned skin and blond hair. Alannah to me is an Irish girl with freckles and curly brown hair who lives in the countryside and Alanna is brunette with blue eyes.
Any associations?
Dated?
Please rate my list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/6232
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This name is very dated for me. I grew up in an Alanna generation. For that reason it's hard for me to see the appeal, it's just sort of white noise to me. I guess if I had to pick one, Alana would get my vote because it's the most clean and straightforward. It's the least Anna/Hannah-adjacent, and I could call her Lana, which I DO genuinely like.
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There was an Alannah in my Latin class at uni, with an Irish ln, and I've never met another one, so that would be my spelling and I pronounce it as she did: uh-LAN-a. Alanna looks incomplete, and Alana is so obviously a feminisation of Alan that I'd avoid it because I love Alan for a boy and I'd have used it first.
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Only person I've ever met with 'ah-LAH-na' was Ellannah so thats what my brain automatially goes to.
I would say:
Allannah/Alana = ah-LAH-na
Alanna = ah-LAN-na
I think its a very early 2000s y2k name to me. I don't hate it.
I would say:
Allannah/Alana = ah-LAH-na
Alanna = ah-LAN-na
I think its a very early 2000s y2k name to me. I don't hate it.
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Alana, more simple spelling, all a lan na
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