wannabe

and wanna be (ˈwɑnə bi)

n. someone who wants to be something or someone. (Associated with Madonna, the singer.) All these teenyboppers are wannabes, and that’s why we can sell this stuff to them at any price.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kobus	KO-bus	Dutch
Sergei	syer-GYAY (Russian), seer-GYAY (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
Emil
Overton	['əuvətn]
Matvei	maht-VYAY	Russian
Rosita	[rəu'zi:tə]