Aaron

[ER1212]

Hi All,
One of our favourites on our shortlist is Aaron, but how do most people pronounce it? We prefer it as 'Arr-on' but I work with an 'Air-on' and not as keen when people say that.

Yes but there are a lot of situations when people see your name before they hear it.
I think Aaron will have his name misspelt. I know an Aaron, an Aaran and an Aron. You could probably get Arran, Aran, Arron, Arren and Arun too.

The only Aaron I know pronounced it Arr-un. I like it but prefer the Island spelling ie Arran, and think that's very unlikely to be mispronounced.

It was Air-ron for ages - I grew up in the 1970s. Then it changed to Arr-on everywhere (think it came from American TV programmes TBH).

Moses and Aaron was always pronounced Moses and Air-ron in my church.

For what it's worth OP, I am giving my baby a fairly unheard of and uncommon name that will likely have people trying to correct it the first few times they hear it. But I love the name and love the fact he won't have 5 other boys in his school with the same name (I hope!) so would rather correct people the first time they hear it to a common name

You love it, you use it and pronounce it the way you want it to be said.

From the sample we can listen to here forvo.com/search/Aaron/en/ it seems that AIR-on is the typical USA pronunciation. (And I've met an American AIR-on who claims he was named after Elvis Aaron Presley....)
AIR-on was certainly the traditional 20th century pronunciation in England.

AHH-ron is more usual in French or German; Ah-RON in Spanish.

Have never heard it pronounced Air-on before by anyone from the UK. Every Aaron i know pronounces it Arr-un

It's pronounced Airon. I hate it when people spell it Aaron and say it Arron. So, if I were you, OP, I'd pick another name!

How can Aar-on be pronounced Air-on

It is though, (or always was). And who's to say what sound 'aa' makes, it's not exactly usual in English.

Those of you who've never heard any other pronunciation that 'arrun', I'd take a guess you're all under 35? And never heard Bible stories of Moses and Aaron?

I'd pronounce it Arron if I had no guidance, and like it with the Aaron spelling - although someone put me off the name when they said it looks like you opened a baby names book and just picked the very first one!

How can Aar-on be pronounced Air-on?

Because it's a Hebrew name.

My DP is an Aaron pronounced a-ron. It's my favourite spelling of it and not sure I've come across an air-on before! He's Welsh.
Go for it, it's one of those names that could be one way or the other.

Because it's a Hebrew name.

Yet people in the UK would pronounce Keziah "keh-zee-ah" when it should actually be "keh-zye-ah".

Nil diff.

I'm from the UK and I would pronounce Keziah "Keh-zye-ah"....

I'm from the UK and would pronounce Keziah Kez-ya

I have an Arron. When we discussed the name I told my DH that I was happy to use it but only if we didn’t spell it Aaron because I didn’t want him called Air-ron.

The problem we have though is that whenever anybody writes his name they write Aaron because it’s the traditional spelling.

He’s got a lifetime ahead of him of spelling out his name which is unfortunate but it’s better than listening to him being called Air-ron all the time.

Aaron = Arrun.

I've never known an Aaron pronounced Airon, that sounds really strange to me.