Fairly obscure and sure to cause issues with pronunciation. What are your feelings/impressions about this name?
Is it pronounced Eye-sannah or Eee-sannah? Either way, it is very pretty and I don’t think its that hard to figure out. I mean, assuming its not said completely differently than I am thinking.
I’m pronouncing it a lot like “is [name_f]Anna[/name_f]”… is that about right? My next guess would be to use a long “e” at the beginning, like EE-zah-na. I think it’s pretty, though almost too light for me, if that makes sense - it feels very airy and not grounded.
It’s a lovely name, it has that ethereal, airy quality, I could see it being used in a fantasy novel. It also has a kind of biblical feel to me as well.
From what I can tell, it was possibly a mashup a couple of centuries back between [name_f]Hannah[/name_f] and [name_f]Isabel[/name_f] that [name_m]Paul[/name_m] Revere gave a daughter. With that in mind, maybe Iz-[name_f]Anna[/name_f] is the intended prn? I think I like the long e, short a version best. ee-SAHN-ah, nearly indistinguishable from is-AHN-ah.
Very pretty, but so many prn problems.
I love it. And the history connection is super cool. I’d probably pronounce it Is-[name_f]Ana[/name_f] rather than Is-[name_f]Anna[/name_f].
I do not like ee-SAHN-ah. It sounds like a made up name, and lacks the romance of similar sounding names like [name_f]Ivana[/name_f] or [name_f]Zhana[/name_f]. [name_f]Isannah[/name_f] looks alright on the page, but being a true a combo then it’s most likely izz-[name_f]ANN[/name_f]-uh, rhyming with [name_f]Susannah[/name_f]. It’s not bad that way, it looks the way it sounds.
My first guess on the pronunciation was EYE-zan-uh.