views on Arran??

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Hi - what do you think of the name Arran Edward for a boy? Positives/ negatives all gratefully received (getting close to EDD now and panic setting in on boys' names!) Thanks xx

Makes me think of woolly jumpers. Aaron probably better.

Aaron is a better spelling. I've never seen it spelt Arran before

Love it - a good, strong, Scottish (so I'm biased) name.

I have a friend who has a son called Arran. He is lovely and almost 16!

Aaron Edward is lovely.
Arran as an alternative spelling just looks a bit odd!

Beautiful island, but i think his name would,annoyingly for you, always be misspelt as Aaron

btw - Aaron is pronounced AIR-on, totally different to Arran.

Nice, I am Scottish and I have met a few Arrans.

I've met a lot of Aarons, and only one has pronounced it AIR-on.

As for Aran/Arran, nooooo. Looks like you've misspelled Aaron. He would be correcting people the rest of his life.

If your scottish or live in Scotland Arran fine but if you don't I would go for Aarons.

oops meant Aaron.

I always thought Aaron should be pronounced 'Air-ron' because of the biblical Aaron-that's how my RE teacher always pronounced it.

In Ireland is in is pronounce 'Are-on'.

Lovely name though

Seamus Heaney - Lovers on Aran

The timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass,
Came dazzling around, into the rocks,
Came glinting, sifting from the Americas

To posess Aran. Or did Aran rush
to throw wide arms of rock around a tide
That yielded with an ebb, with a soft crash?

Did sea define the land or land the sea?
Each drew new meaning from the waves' collision.
Sea broke on land to full identity.

Then they are mis-pronouncing it. Aaron is pronounced AIR-on, for the reasons Stable has described.

Arran is perfectly fine - a name in it's own right.

I always used to think Aaron was pronounced Air-on too but in recent years everyone I come across seems to pronounce it like Arran. I considered Aran for my ds but dh wasn't keen...

I like Air-on, I hate Arr-on - sounds like a woolly jumper! I'd always spell it Aaron.

Do you have a connection with the island?

Read this and thought it was going to be about the views on Arran (quite new to MN). Truly spectacular views on the the bonny wee island. Even better to view Arran from Ayr/Troon area. Beautiful on a clear day esp if there's a bit of snow on Goatfell. Arran is known by some as the sleeping warrior.

Oh, and I wouldn't choose as a name unless the place holds some signifivcance...

Arran and Aaron are completely different names (and being Welsh I would pronounce Aaron as Ah-ron).

Arran is a lovely name though the only one I know is a girl!

my nephew is called Arran as he was conceived on the Isle of Arran

It's not necessary imo to have a connection to the island - that would rule out so many beautiful names if that were the case.

My brother (22) is Aaron and I choose his name and love it. No one ever pronounces his name Air-ron just A-ron and we have scottish relatives.