Which do you prefer?

[Novella]

My DH loves the name Helene, I haven't found anything that I love but have been thinking about his favourite and have decided I prefer Helena

So what do you prefer Helene or Helena?

Our older DD's are Jasmine and Aimee

[~ Mylitta ~]

I think I prefer Helena. My reasoning is that your older daughters names both have different endings (eg. "ine" and "ee") and the "ene" from Helene is very similar to the "ine" of Jasmine. If you use Helena then it's another different ending with "ena".

Gosh I hope that made sense written like it seemed to make sense in my head hahaha

[Cranky Kitten]

Made sense to me - I happen to agree with Mylitta. Helena is a gorgeous name.

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I love Helena

I thikn Mylitta raises a good point as well. It sounds well with your other DDs names

[Catastrophic]

Helena! Love it


Love MN ;-)

[TeniBear]

I'm going to go with Helene. Incidentally, that was the name of the street my parents lived on when I was born

My cousin has a Heléna and she's all uptight and prissy about pronouncing it Hel-ayyyy-nah (yes, stretched out like you're yawning), and you HAVE TO have the accent (I'm not sure if I've put it in right) or she gets even angrier. So that's turned me off that name

[Nai]

Helena! But then I think Helena Christensen is one of the most beautiful women ever!

[Amity]

I love them both.

[Babyluv]

I love Helena

[Rowellen]

I would vote for Helena. I like it pronounced like Helen-ah rather than Hel-ay-nah though. I had that on my list for DD

[AwesomeFoursome]

I prefer Helena.

[Charlotte91]

Helena

[AMumma]

I like both but I wanted to add the midwife who did my antenatal classes was Helene and she was a lovely bubbly lady. The name makes me think of a happy person

[Lisa]

I love Helena but pronounced he-lay-nah.


(Sent from my phone, so I apologise if it makes no sense.)

[Novella]

Thanks for your input girls, Im thinkinging Helena (he-lay-nah) so might discuss it with DH soon, just want to be sure I really like it before I get his hopes up . I think you're right and it does sound better when said with my other DD's names

[~ Mylitta ~]

When I first read it I pronounced it he-lee-nah, but after reading the other posts I prefer it like you have it in your last post, he-lay-nah

[nickers]

another vote for Helena from me

i think Helene (is that pronounced Hel-een?) would often get missed for Helen

[purplepixie1978]

I have an aunty and a very good friend named Helena so am a huge fan. I concur with Mylitta re: name ending sounds. Also agree with Nickers re: Helene ending up as Helen (not that Helen's not a beautiful name, but it's better not to have to spell out your name IYKWIM?).