How to pronounce this name? Sathena

Where are you getting this name from and how is it that you don't know how to pronounce it but you know how it's not pronounced and you know there's a silent letter? I ask because I've never heard of this name and even googling it gives very few results. If it's not Suh-THEE-nuh. Then I would assume either suh-TEE-nuh or suh-THEN-uh But I don't think you're going to get a correct answer without knowing the origin of the name because I don't think this is an English name.

I's an unfamiliar name to me, but I'd pronounce it as Sa-THEE-na.

<American English> It is not a common name. I've never seen it before. Phonetically, if I ran across this name, I would default to pronouncing it Sath (rhymes with 'path') - **ee** \- nuh. And expect to possibly be corrected. I don't see any obvious silent letters.

It's a sufficiently unusual name that I would think most native speakers would ask the person how to pronounce it, but a first guess would be [səˈθinə](https://ipa-reader.com/?text=s%C9%99%CB%88%CE%B8in%C9%99) . (Click on the link to hear it read aloud)

If there’s a silent letter I’m assuming it’s the H and that the th is pronounced like a T

https://www.names.org/n/sathena/about#pronunciation

I would say the h is silent.

The [site](https://www.names.org/n/sathena/about#pronunciation) another poster linked to mentions that two users have said it's a Tamil name. If I look at the Wikipedia page on the [Tamil script](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script#Basic_consonants), I see that there are 3 different consonants represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet by a *t* with some kind of diacritic. If look at the [IPA chart](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/IPA_chart_2020.svg), I see that one diacritic means the *t* is "Linquolabial," one means "Pharyngealized," and so on. My guess is that the other posters are right that the *h* is silent, but that the *t* is not properly pronounced like a standard English *t* but in some way English might not use.

Never saw it before. Athena, pronounced like the goddess of wisdom, is far more prevalent. It's reasonable to think that putting an S in front of it would sound exactly the way you wrote it out. Is it possible that there is an alternative spelling that gives more clues?

It appears that it might be a Malaysian name.  Maybe ask in /r/malaysia. 

I’ve never seen this name before. I would assume it’s like Athena with an S at the beginning. 

Doesn’t look like an English name I’ve ever heard of, but I would pronounce that as Sa-te-nuh

This is not a common name in English, and it is not one I have ever encountered. Based on its spelling, I would assume that it rhymes with the name "Athena", so it would be pronounced "Suh-thee-nuh" with an unvoiced "th".

Well, after googling I found two things that popped up: a company in the Netherlands and what looks like a German fan WoW character. Knowing German, it's probably pronounced \[satʰena\]. No ee, no nuh, no ss sound. The silent letter is most likely the 'h'. You'd pronounce the th similar to the t in time