How would you pronounce Frances?

[JessicaBearx]

I would pronounce it FrARNces. Is this how most pronounce it or do you pronounces in Fran ces?
Asking because i don't want to pick a name we are pronouncing "wrong". Thanks

FRAN-sez. Emphasis on the first syllable.

I have a south Dublin accent.

Your way. One of my best friends at school was Frances. But I'm a southerner and I day France the country as Frarnce. A northerner may be different - but you'd get that with any similar name.

say not day

Fran-ces.

I'm from the beautiful north .

Agree, there's a north/south divide on this like with Tanya (Tarnya is natural to me, a southerner, Tanya is unnatural)

Frarn siss

It depends whether you use a hard or soft "a" in words like bath and path.

Here in the Midlands, if you wanted your child's name pronounced with a soft "a", you would have to accept that most people would say it with a hard "a", because that is the prevailing local accent.

It will be pronounced differently according to people's accent and whether they use a long or a short A just as in grass, bath, path etc.

Fr-arn-ces

Bit like Frarnce.

I'm from Kent in the SE England. My friends up north pronounce it Fran-sis.

Fran-ces . From the Midlands.

Frarn sis

Fran-ces. Emphasis on the first syllable.

Fran to rhyme with man.

I'm Australian.

Frarn-ses if it's a girl.
Frarn-sis if it's a boy

Fran-cis. Would it annoy you if other people pronounced the name differently to you? I didn't realose that very locally there is an alternative way to say my son's name (completely the wrong way, it doesn't even make sense). I am that mother, the one who's hissing his name back to them.

Frarn-ces.

Fran-ces. North Dublin originally but lived in UK for years.

Actually don't think I've ever heard it any other way.

Northern - FRAN-cez

Fran-sis - midlander
My mil says frarn-sis because she's a southerner.

This is actually one of my kids names and regional dialects don't bother me with the name. Just say it how it feels most natural

Fr AHN sez

With an AH, not an AR.

Definitely not SIS.

I live in Birmingham and it would definitely be fran not frarn here.

Good point, different depending on sex!
Frances (girl) - FRAN-sez
Francis (boy) - FrARN-sis

Short 'a' as in Frank. It's a regional thing, so some people will say it as you'd like it said, and some people won't.

Fist half:

Depends where you are from like Bath

Second half

Depends if boy or girl, sis vs sez

What fun.