Áine (Irish - pronounced onya)

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Yes or no... obviously no one will read it correctly..: but I love it

not for my hypothetical last chance baby number3 that I might not even have

Yes, I love it x

@daisyjgrey Anya? Or Ahh -nya . is also a different sound I think

@MaudebeGonne got it! Thank you

I know a couple of Ainés and I really like it. I think it's ones of those names which grows on you

Certainly in Ireland, Awn has a different pronunciation to On. (Like "lawn" and "fawn" compared to "gone" and "don"?). As a pp said your mouth even makes a different shape. Maybe that is accent dependent?
But yes I agree its pronounced Awnya!

When the doctor looks at your throat and says “Say Awww”

That’s how you pronounce Áine. AwwnYa.
Not ‘Onya’

(sorry Op)

To answer your question… it’s okay. There are much nicer names

My favourite Irish name is Niamh, it sounds sharp.

Are you thinking of Úna or Oonagh pronunciation which is ooh nah. Áine is pron. Aah nagh.

First of all you say ahhhhh when the doc looks in your throat.....not awwwwww. So that's has nothing to do with the name.

Secondly the dawn V don thing - deffo depends on your accent. Both are they same in my accent.

Anyway, OP, it's beautiful name.

We prounnounce it like this An ya

It's not ya it's yeh!

Aaawwwn - yeh.

@NotKnowingArseFromElbow but at least we can agree that there is a difference between ahhh and aww.

Áine is pronounced Aww.

Kinda of like Ann yeh. Yea that's how we say it here only faster annyeh

@irishfeminist a name ending in ‘e’ sounds like ‘a’, eg Aoife (E-fa), Aoibhe (E-va) Ailbhe (Al-va) etc

Goldentimes are you in Ulster? I've noticed Aine is pronounced with a flatter shorter A sound there.

Awww - as if it's 1950 and you've just spotted the parish priest arrive in the parish dance hall to ruin everyone's fun

Nyagghhhhh - as if you're elbow deep in a cow's birth canal in the middle of a bitterly cold winter's night

That sums up an Áine

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Goldentimes are you in Ulster? I've noticed Aine is pronounced with a flatter shorter A sound there.

Yes but there's a mixture of people saying it like Awn ya or Anne Ya

I’m Scottish and still can’t hear any difference between awn and on, even with the Dawn example! Anyone else?! I think it’s a nice name op, not like top ten, but nice enough.

@CamVegOut it is absolutely not Aah Nagh. It is Awn ya.

I know several and pronounce is Ann-ya.

@TheDuchessOfMN I'm an Irish speaker and I would pronounce all of those names as ending in "eh" but 🤷‍♀️

@StrychnineInTheSandwiches 😆😆😆

[quote TheDuchessOfMN]@irishfeminist a name ending in ‘e’ sounds like ‘a’, eg Aoife (E-fa), Aoibhe (E-va) Ailbhe (Al-va) etc[/quote]
When I hear people say Aoife it sounds more like Ee-fuh rather than a pronounced fah sound.

my friends daughter is Aine...Awnya its pronounced. Its a beautiful name I think, I dont know anyone else with this name.
With an Irish surname it'd be lovely!