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How do you pronounce this name?
How do you pronounce the name Deanna? H really wants to use this name for our girl.
Would you say Dee anna or Dee ahna. We would want it pronounced the second way, but not sure how to avoid the first pronunciation.
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Re: How do you pronounce this name?
I would say De-anna. Deana maybe for ahna?
And I don't think people would automatically shorten it. I think people tend to call whoever as they're introduced. Then later on if they're closer, they might shorten it, but you can always say no, it's Deanna
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I would say Dee Anna. Deana I would say Dina.
Also Dee-anna. I don't think it would nn.
Deonna looks like Dee-OH-nah to me or Donna. Deana would be Dee-anna or Dina. I also don't know how you'd get Dee-ahna. Unless you did spell it Deahna....
My cousin is Deanna, pronounced Dee-Anna. No one in the family ever called her Dee, but I don't know for sure that her friends didn't do that in school.
I don't know how you're going to get people to automatically think Dee-ahna. Deahna still looks like a convoluted Dina.
I would say it Dee-anna.However, last year's Bachelorette was Deanna pronounced Dee-ahna. I think it would be a thing where you would have to correct people either way, b/c some people will be inclined to pronounce it one way, and some people the other.
Deana would be Dean-uh to me. Dionna might work...similar to Dionne?
Dee-anna. Deana would make me think of the boy's name Dean, with an a on the end, not De-ahna.
As far as getting to Diana, other than if you're Latin and spelling it Diana, I just don't think it works. That's like saying, I like the name Rebecca, pronounced with a LONG E in the middle, like Re-BEEK-ah. No one is ever going to pronounce it right, and pronouncing it different really just makes it a made-up name IMO.
Hey my nickname is Dee
But it is short for Deandra. Similar to Deanna but not quite the same. I think my full name is ick 
so I only go by my nickname
LOL. My nickname is also Dee or Dee Dee more often. I tend to pronounce it Dee-anna but there is the last Bachelorette and I went to school with a girl Diana whose name was pronounced the way you want it to be.
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I say if you like the name, use it! People will pronounce it however you tell them it is pronounced. I know a Deanna, and she pronounces it De -ahna. Her family sometimes call her Dee or DeeDee, but I have always called her Deanna.
ETA: I really like this name, but DH said no.
I know a few and they all go by "Dee-anna"
no nn's!
I'd pronounce it "dee-anna," and expect the "dee-ahna" pronounciation if it were "Dionna."
That being said, you can pronounce it whichever way you prefer; just remember that you and she will just have to correct people for the rest of her life. No one gets upset when someone specifies "ANdrea" or "ahnDRAYa," so it wouldn't be a big deal.
I know this is a super-late reply, but I had to reply because that's my name!
I say "Dee-anna" (and Deana would be like Dean-uh). If you want it to be like "Dee-ohna" then you just have to start out that way when you tell everyone her name. Or, you could always go with D'Ana -- I've seen others spelled DeAnna, too.
I get called everything even close to it -- Diana, Diane, Deena, Donna, Dean. And when I leave messages for people, they often write it as "Dianna." And I really don't think it's a difficult name!
As for being called "Dee," people do it ALL the time -- but I think it's more like "D" instead. However, I also can't stand when people call me that so I correct them. I usually say, "My grandma's name was Delores and everyone called her Dee so it's Deanna for me!"