Comments for HELENE:

German pronunciation: heh-LAY-nuh.

-- JHK  9/3/2006

Listen to the German pronunciation of Helene here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

-- _satu_  9/3/2006

English pronunciation of Helene is heh-LAYN.

-- audreyhubley  11/1/2006

It can also be pronounced he-LEEN. That's the most common pronunciation in Sweden.

-- Tango  2/25/2007

I've never heard it pronounced like that in Sweden. The Helenes I know pronounce it heh-LEHN.

-- Anonymous User  6/27/2009

It's my middle name, and I always say it he-LEEN.

-- Martha Gold  3/23/2007

I have heard this name be pronounced he-LEEN, he-LAYN, and he-le-nuh. Any way you pronounce it, it's very pretty.

-- nessime  12/15/2007

Helene is the name of a very small moon of Saturn, discovered in 1980.

-- AndrewJKD  4/13/2008

Comments for HÉLÈNE:

Can also be pronounced "ee-len" ee as in Bee or "e-len" Helen without the H.

-- Anonymous User  5/7/2006

Some English use this name instead of Helen (Give the name a little personality, I personally think) but they pronounce it with a combination of Helen and Helene - "Hel-leen" instead of "Hel-en" or "ay-leen".

-- Anonymous User  3/15/2007

In the film and book "Silk," by Alessandro Barrico, Helene is the wife of the main character, Herve. In the film she's played by Keira Knightley.

-- Martha Gold  11/4/2008

I adore this name! I'm using it as the name for a main character in a story I'm writing (an English, Goth girl with French heritage) and I think it suits her well. Helene is a beautiful name, so much more so than Helen! I pronounce it "hay-LEHN" or "heh-LEHN", because I have known people with this name who pronounced it that way.

-- Sophannagh  4/10/2009

There's a French opera called "La Belle Hélène".

-- Ailis  11/20/2009

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