Baby Name Poll Results

In my opinion Helena is a gorgeous name please don’t ruin it by spelling it "uniquely’’

I think it’s beautiful but I am just worried about it being mispronounced

Change it from Helena it will be misprononced all the time. It looks like Hel-Lena the way its suppose to be said.

Helaina is best, it’s really pretty! I think and it actually is a name!

The girl’s name Helaina \he-lai-na\ is a variant of Helen (Greek), and the meaning of Helaina is "sun ray, shining light".

The baby name Helaina sounds like Helaine and Helana. Other similar baby names are Melaina, Helmina and Zelaina.

Helaina is a very rare female first name and a very rare surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Displayed below is the baby name popularity trend for the girl’s name Helaina. Compare Helaina with related baby names.

^^^^Ha-lay-na is beautiful:) Halaina:)

need middle names?

Helaina Brooke
Helaina Brielle
Helaina Morgan
Helaina Payton
Helaina Paige
Helaina Bree
Helaina Reece
Helaina Sydney
Helaina Reeve

I’m actually expecting quads(all girls) and I was thinking either Helena/Helaina Catherine or Victoria or maybe Penelope

Helena,
Catherine,
Victoria,

BUT NOT PENELOPE!

Maybe Isabella, Emma?

Not a fan of Penelope.
The best thing to do is spell it Helena and she’ll just have to correct people. Adding an I or Y will add even more hassle to it.

...........all through school, your daughter will correct mispernounciations over and over and over. it gets anoying. save her the trouble.

You’ll always have to correct people if it’s spelled Helena. Helaina’s prettier.

I would keep it Helena. It’s actally one of my favorite names and that is the only pronunciation that I like. The only Helenas I know..all pronounce it Hel lay nuh, so whenever I see the name, that’s how I pronounce it. I think people overestimate people mispronouncing the name..I really don’t think t’s going to be that big a deal.

We named our daughter Helayna - she is 6 now and we still love her name. So does she! :)

My names Helaina! :)
and so Helena is pronounced \’Hell-en-a\’ which is different from Helaina.. so basically my names just a made up word? :( confused!

I love the names Helena and Helaina but I think Helena will be pronounced ’HELL-enna’ and I prefer Helaina anyway, it’s my sister’s name :)

I’d go for Helaina

My name is Helaina and its often mispronounced. But you get used to it.

my name is Helena, pronounced He-lay-na and I think it doesn’t really matter how you spell it but Helaina is probably a good way of spelling it because that’s how people usually spell my name if they don’t know how to spell it and my name pretty much always gets mispronounced being spelled Helena

my middle name is Claire by the way - Helena Claire - i don’t mind if you borrow it hehehe not that you need my permission

don’t name her helayna bc people call me like heliana and helaina and its creepy.

My name is Helaina and it’s pronounced he-LAY-na. However Helena is sometimes pronounced that way but it’s more rare- such as the Isle of Helena. Either way I think it’s a lovely name (though I am slightly biased!)

Thank you every one xx

My name is Helayna and love it! Do still get called Helena but everyone comments on how they like the spelling etc, :)

My name is Helayna! People pronounce is how its spelt. There is another way to spell this name that i know of- Halaena :)

My name is Helaina, and I love the way it’s spelled. And it is pronounced the way you want it to be.

My name is Helena. And it’s pronounced Hel-en-ah, Helen-a. People are always pronouncing it wrong they call me heleena I’m always forever correcting them it’s tiring. The names spelt or said differently still have the same meaning and still come from the same name Helen.
I love my name but I hate people saying it wrong it’s HELEN-A!!!!!!
I would DEFINITELY 100per cent spell it how you would like people to pronounce it other wise you’ll be correcting people all the time and a lot of people who I correct seem to try to correct me by telling me I don’t know how to say my own name... so annoying...

P.S Helaina and Heylana are both beautiful names pronounced very beautifully but personally I prefer Helen with the a - Helena :)

No matter how you spell a name people will occasionally pronounce it in a different way than you wish they would. I say spell it the way you like it and that’s that. I have a daughter named Helena Claire and she loves her name.

My name is Helaina! I always think of Helena being pronounced Helen-a rather than the same pronunciation as my name. No matter which you pick she’ll have to correct spelling and pronunciation as both are a little unusual. She’ll probably get many compliments on her name too! 😊 P.S. My middle name is Elizabeth

my husband woke me up around 4am and told me that our future daughter will be named Helaina Elizabeth. And i was like. "Wtf! Can’t u see i’m having a good sleep here!" But at the back of my mind I was happy because it’s his first time to suggest a name for our future daughter :)

We named our little one Helaina Faye

My name is Helena and I pronounce it He-LEE-na since that how my parents pronounced it. Helena is also the capitol of Montana, and they pronounce it HELL-en-a. People mispronounce my name all the time and it never bothers me! I’m just so happy to have such a lovely and unusual name.

My daughter's name is Helayna Ivy. She's now 9. We've always heard only positive things but there are days when I wish I'd gone with my gut and went with the traditional (possibly more sophisticated?) spelling, Helena

I was named Helena (Hel lena) and have for the past 47 years had it misprenounced. Have most of my life wanted to change the spelling as everyone calls me Helen-a no matter how many yikes you say it correct. The people that mean anything will prenounce it correctly. One way of finding true friends.

My name is Helaina Rose
feel free to use it

My name is Helayna. I love my name but sometimes it is always mispronounced. I say my name as /Huh-lay-na/ and my dance teacher calls me Helen.

I've read through these comments several times trying to decide how I wanted to spell my daughters name. I wanted to honor my Grandma (Helen) by naming my daughter Helaina/Helena. I was wanting to pick "Helena" because the spelling is closer to being like my Grandma's name but I was afraid people would pronounce it as Helen-a. I went with "Helaina" thinking it would get pronounced correctly only to find people still don't always say it correctly. Then I think "what was the point I should have gone with my first choice". My Daughter's nearly a year old and I'm contemplating on changing the spelling to "Helena". I just don't know if it's worth the hassle now and I'm kind of getting used to the way it's spelled already.