Aaron

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The name my aunt and uncle chose for the newest baby - their fifth. Siblings called Kyle, Nathan, Steven and Faith. I'd not heard them suggest it before so it seemed to come out of nowhere. What are your thoughts?

Surname is long and begins with C.

I apologise - I lived very near the border and we regularly went 'down South' as we'd say so I'm sorry if that offended you. Yes, Irish people or people who live in the Republic of Ireland or whatever. Many people in Northern Ireland consider themselves 'Irish' too. Are you Irish?

I don't really have a problem with people in the south. We go "up north" too...
Think I was a bit "direct" earlier (as my mil likes to describe me as when I'm a bitch), sorry :)

It always seems to be pronounced Air-on in church services/readings.

It's okay - most people in our family were surprised by the choice but it's his name I guess! He's still a lovely sweet gorgeous little baby and there are worse names they could have given him. Lloyd was on the short list for one of their others but afterwards my auntie put it down to pregnancy hormones and now hates the name!

I like it! My ds's middle name is Arran - after the Scottish island, where we got engaged :) I prefer that spelling to Aaron.

Sorry, I'm not offended at all (am Scottish!), have probably spent too long on MN reading people from ROI being upset at being referred to as "Southern Irish" and taken it too much to heart.

I always thought Air-on was the traditional pronounciation, as distinct from the name Aron/Arun. I think it's a nice name, but I'm intrigued by the mix of names in that family. Usually you get a run of the same type of names, don't you? But theirs are all quite different. I like that

My 6wo is called Aaron we pronounce is ah Ron and we love it. Went through the baby book several times and its not the first name in it :o

I like it.

Don't like it- either way its said

Lovely name.,..however...what has it got to do with you anyway? Surely their business? Or did they ask you to run a poll?

The Arron I know is 40 ish and comes from a very wealthy family, if that helps...

Ah! My friends love Arran, I've not been yet though. That's a sweet place to get engaged!

Yeah, the names are a bit random - ages are 11, 9, 5, 2 so that might have something to do with it. I'm not sure!

I see - I didn't realise there was a sensitivity about that, I try to be as politically correct as possible.

My husband is an Aaron (ah-ron) and he's lovely lol
I don't think it's as common as it used to be x