Aurelia - how does one pronounce it?

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I love the name Aurelia but it seems to be one of those names like Clara,where everyone seems to think it's pronounced a different way.

So do you say
Or-ee-lee-ah
Or-el-yah
Or-rayl-yah

Also on Clara,
Klah-ra
Claire-ah

I seem to like names that can be said various different ways! But would like to have a vaguely unanimous verdict. More for Aurelia than Clara because of the whole Nutcracker thing it is Klah-ra to me.

Or ree lee a and Klaa ra.

Or-ray-lia. Exquisite name. :)

I love Aurelia, and I'd pronounce it Aaaww-ree-li-ya, which I think is the same as your first option.

Also, my sister was a Clara pronounced Claire-rah, but at twenty years old she decided to become a Klah-ra. Which is a bit twattish, but hark hear me, I switched to using my middle name at seventeen too.

Oar-RAY-lee-ah and CLAH-rah.

Aw-REE-lee-a.

And KLAH-ra. I have actually never heard anyone pronounce it Claire-ah.

I don't understand how it can be Claire-a either? [hconfused]

Awwr-el-ia. And i pronounce the r with a slight French throaty accent. Is the name French? I'm not French but studied it at school and I can't help but do the throaty thing on the r. But that might be because I once had a French exchange student called Aurore.

I love the name but I wouldn't use a name which can be pronounced different ways as I have such a name and it's a real pain.

Love the name, have known 3 Au ray lee ahs
They were lovely people
Our dd is Aurelia and her name is admired all the time
Great choice!

"How can Clara be "Claire-ah", there's no "i" in the name to make it sound like 'air'"

Because Clare has always been pronounced "Claire" and is the older form?

Holly it's Latin but it wouldn't surprise me if it was popular in France. It's one of those lovely feminine names that seem so European :).

I don't really get Claire-a either,I know Amerkcans generally say it that way but didn't think people in the UK did until I saw a teenage one on the news. Might be a regional thing though?

That was definitely meant to be Americans.

HollyMadison, Aurelia is Latin; Aurelie is the French version.

I used to listen to a classical music station in the US and 'Clara Schumann' was always pronounced Clar-ah, not Claire-a.

It might just be a function of the regional American accent used -- my exMIL said Lorra for Laura (Law-ra). She pronounced Lara 'LAH-ra' and Americans tend to say PAH-sta, not PASS-ta...

I think if you paid close attention to other words with the A sound you might find 'Clara' had a different A sound from the one in the name Claire.

Mirai, you are right there.

Clara is a German version of Claire. Even so, rules of English phonetics mean the A sound is pronounced exactly as it would be in German, just like the word 'paragraph' -- which isn't 'pairagraph' except perhaps in some American accents.

I'd say it or-ee-lee-a and claire-a

I always assumed it was Au-ree-lee-a...but if it was in America I can see it could be pronounced Au-ray-lee-a. I think the first way is prettier though.

Actually, I first heard the name in America and it was pronounced Aw-REE-lee-ah there.

My first instinct would be to say ow-reh-lia, But i guess that's because I know a Spanish girl with that name.

Parents calling their child on the school playground round here say Or-rayl-yah. I suspect the lee-ah ending got shortened to make it quicker to say!

Or-ee-lee-ah.

I had a French exchange girl called Aurelie which was pronounced Or-ee-lee.

I'd say Au ray lee ahs but DH say's Or-ee-lee-ah. So we removed it from the list, as neither of us would back down

Lovely lovely name x

I think Aurelie has a softer sound and somehow seems easier to pronounce. I knew a girl called Clara at school and she was constantly having to correct peoples pronounciation, she liked Klah-ra and nearly everyone called her Clair-a.

We pronounce it Or-ray-lee-a (it's my Mil's name, and I'll be having it as a middle name for a dd eventually).