How would you pronounce 'Aiya'?

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I would pronounce it like Isla with out the 'L'
Eye-ur

Like you.

Eye-ah

Second, follow on question that I forgot to post originally

What are your thoughts about the name and spelling

Ay (as in hay)
Ya with the a as in cat

But I've never seen it as a name.

Eye-ah. I would say Ay-ah if it were spelled Aya or Ayah.

Eye-ah

It sounds like Hiya! in a cockney accent. Awful.

That's Scouse for hiya!

Eye-ah.

Geek alert: it means 'hail!' in Quenya Elvish. That's my only association; I've never encountered it as a name before.

Ay-ah and yeah to close to hiya

Yep, "hiya" without the H!

Like Hiya without the 'H'

I-ya.. That what the call her in Game of Thrones.

It's a fine name. Nothing wrong with it, doesnt sound tacky.

It's Liverpudlian for hello - do not saddle your poor child with this name...

The Y would provide the "eye" sound, not the "yuh" sound

So 'Eye-uh'. Not 'Eye-yuh' iyswim?

Aiya pronounced eye-ya is Chinese for mugwort

It's hello in the Manchester area too- like hiya but dropping the 'h'

You can't ask how people would pronounce it and then tell them they are pronouncing it wrong

I'd put money on the majority of northerners me included pronouncing it like hiya (which doesn't have a strong 'yuh' sound anyway)

Like ayia napa

I was just trying to clarify the pronunciation that I posted. Not that anyone else was "wrong" :)

I have a 'rule' about names. In that if it could be pronounced more than one way, I wouldn't use it (Tanya or Maya for example)

:)

I have a rule about names. They have to be names