How would you pronounce Aryan?

[Icloud54]

Thank you

[RidingWindhorses]

Oh my gosh! Did not no it had a link with the nazis

That's not actually possible.

Do you mean Aaron or Arianne?

[Muddlingalongalone]

Dd2 has a nursery mate called this. They pronounce it Arry-an although I was calling him Air-y-an to start with like the race & was

[RidingWindhorses]

Xpost - thx for clarification SueGeneris

[Icloud54]

It's for a boy- would have been Aaryan.
We have a south Asian background and I think it's a name that's been used; Aaryan that is.

[hayli]

Its a very popular indian name. Thats what i thought of first anyway so i guess it depends where you're from.

[hayli]

It's for a boy- would have been Aaryan.
We have a south Asian background and I think it's a name that's been used; Aaryan that is.
Makes sense obv in europe it has a bad attachment to it but not for people from there.

[TheBrilloPad]

I know two Indian Aaryan's and didn't bat an eyelid. One is almost four, and this thread is the first time Nazi connotations have ever occurred to me.

The two I know both pronounce it "Ah-reean"

[Liadain]

I think it's much better with the Aaryan spelling. Written as Aryan however, it screams Nazi to me - like the couple who named their child Aryan Nation.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2063487/Parents-named-children-Adolf-Hitler-Aryan-Nation-wont-receive-custody-newborn-son-Hons.html

[pieceofpurplesky]

Eirian is the Welsh spelling pronounced airy-Ann

[pieceofpurplesky]

Or Erry-Ann

[Fekko]

It's an old Persian name (arr-ran). Persians are aryans, not nazis (although I can't believe the op didn't make the nazi connection).

[cupofchai]

Aarian is usual indian spelling

[Fekko]

Your spell it close to aryan in farsi but since it's a different alphabet it's not an exact science

[Whatthefoxgoingon]

Whatever way you spell it, I definitely wouldn’t use this name. Poor kid would never hear the end of it!

[mumoffour1716154]

The name Aryan originated from India, nazis adopted it for their purposes.

[ChuffMuffin]

Ah was wondering if you were thinking if the Asian name . I know a child of Indian descent called Aryan, his is pronounced Arriyun.

[HaHaHmm]

I also know an Aryan of Indian heritage. It’s a reasonably common name.

[HaHaHmm]

Just looked it up - it comes from the Sanskrit word meaning ‘noble’. Co-opted by the Nazis, along with the swastika.

[DumbledoresApprentice]

I would say Are-yun. I’ve come across a couple. Both were Iranian if I remember correctly.

[flippychick]

Do you mean Arjan which is also pronounced 'ar-e-yan'?

[StepAwayFromCake]

Oh don't be daft! Master-race - bollocks!

It's an ordinary name, just not an English name. Baltic, I think.

I know a boy and a man called 'Aryan'. One pronounces it Arry-an, the other (h)Urry-un. One writes it Arian, I don't know how the other writes it.

[SuperBeagle]

Step Obviously there's no such thing as a master race, but it was a belief (and policy) propagated by the Nazis and many people were killed because they weren't "Aryan".

So you can call it bullshit as much as you like, but the facts remain that in most countries affected by WWII, the majority of people will have negative associations with the name.

[ZaphodBeeblerox]

I'm south Asian too, and while the name does not have Nazi connotations it definitely is used as a signifier of being fair / upper caste / superior. In contrast to Dravidian - i.e. Being dark, lower caste. It carries racist connotations but not within the tightly knit communities that choose such names.
However you spell it though it is the same name - Aryan - denoting a race of people thought to be fair and conquerors (except history doesn't quite agree with this narrative).

I'd be very wary of giving a child that name if they were to be raised in Europe / the U.K. / the US, or in southern parts of India.