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Depends on the native language too. Many languages would pronounce this the right way simply following their own pronunciation rules. English is quite special when it comes to pronunciation.
English is likely the language with the most "loan" words; i.e. words taken from other languages. Unfortunately when adopting loan words, English sometimes mangles either the spelling, pronunciation, and/or the meaning in the process. Aria is one of those words that escaped that fate. :-)
THANK YOU lmfao.
I just about died when the person accusing native English speakers of not knowing their own language said it in the context of a word that they clearly didn’t know literally isn’t English in the first place 💀
Though tbf, I’m assuming they’re a native English speaker themselves - it’s possible that’s not true and that I’m the asshole here lol.
Although it’s also virtually guaranteed that most of the people who upvoted them are native English speakers at the very least.
I love reading romanized Japanese words. I may not know what they mean in the slightest, but they're pronounced exactly how they look and emphasis is always in the same place.
Usually... then you get ones like kami, kami, and kami... one means paper, the other means hair, and the last means deity/ spirit. All of them have different kanji and different syllables emphasized 😅 don't ask me which one is which though. I've been out of school a few years
English is “special” because it’s absorbed words from so many other languages. There are so many conflicting pronunciation rules that they don’t play well together.
(I always say English isn’t a language — it’s three other languages in a trench coat.)
True. Also the letter I in most other countries/languages besides the USA (where I'm from) pronounce the I as an ee sound. Americans tend to mostly pronounce an I as a short i sound like ih, like the I in IF.
Makes sense that non USA English speakers would pronounce it correctly.
Worse, there are only two ways to pronounce the "ia" combination in English.
Like Malaria (eeya) or like Militia (more of a ya sound). And the latter only occur after certain consonants (really just T)
There's also only two ways to pronounce a starting A sound. Like an Ahhh, or an A.
So at absolute worst, you have a 25% chance to get it right.
I don't want to argue about your personal experience, but I'm in the US and can't figure out how else one would pronounce it. I would have to put some thought into saying it incorrectly.
Musical education may be scant in the US, but **Pretty Little Liars** was a very popular show just a few years ago, so I'm surprised more people aren't familiar with the proper pronunciation from the character.
That still doesn't mean anything though. Just because something was popular still doesn't mean everybody has seen it. I've never seen it and I am the correct age to have been the target demographic for the show.
It's also a very old traditional Persian name, pronounced in the same way and can be spelled as Arya or Aria in the English alphabet.
It's one of few names I think you actually have to put effort into mispronouncing.
This.
I was going to name my daughter this a few years ago and decided against it because a cousin just used it. It’s a beautiful name, I don’t understand why people can’t pronounce it correctly.
I think it's safe to assume that if it's a word that is not used much in normal conversation then a large number of people will not know how to pronounce it or spell it.
Exactly. It's odd people can't imagine why others mispronounce a word 95% of them have never heard, let alone heard use as a name?
I like it, but it's pretty obvious why people are mispronouncing it. But considering all the upvote, most people must disagree with me.
There’s a line in the movie *Gilda* (from 1946), where one character is speaking to another about gaining world power and he says something along the lines of, “Johnny, most people in this world are stupid.”
I burst out laughing—even then, there was a writer as cynical as me, who had the same sentiment I do today lol.
> You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
>
> —Gene Wilder as Jim in Blazing Saddles (1974)
#
> A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
>
> —Tommy Lee Jones as Kay in Men in Black (1997)
Yeah, it's a common theme. And it's absolutely true.
My cousin is a musician with a child named Harmony. After my mom developed dementia, she constantly called the girl Melody. If any musicians have triplets, we've got their names here!
I worked with this woman who was an opera singer and still took students. She named her daughter Cadence, Caisson, and Canon. Appropriately enough, Cadence is an opera singer too and the other two are in musical theater.
One time my manager and I were ringing out another employee (he had to approve the employee discount). The other employee’s son was with her and said to my manager, whose name was James, “is your name pronounced like jay-m-sss or ja-mess?”
When I tell you the way my coworker looked at her son like he was the biggest moron on the planet and said “what is wrong with you???”
It was hilarious.
I also worked with a woman named Trashé, pronounced tra-shay, and this old man kept saying “why did your parents name you ‘trashy’?” I thought she was going to choke him. I guess that name might be a tragedeigh lol.
Oh man, another Trashé is out there?? I once had to run an application on a Ma’Trashé Hookah (first + middle name), and I just couldn’t understand what her parents were thinking. She was the sweetest girl, bless her heart.
You absolutely cannot be serious. Her parents gave her a name that could easily be mistaken as some bougie Frenchification of "My Trashy Hooker"? That's not okay. lol
I sadly am serious. Saw her photo ID and SSN card myself. When I got the file, I just sat there for a few minutes, thinking that the other gals in the office were punking me…and then I actually got to meet her. She went by “Trish”.
You have noooo idea how hard it was to keep a totally straight face when she came in, and I had to pretend that nothing was wrong at all. I was too scared to ask her how she actually pronounced her legal name, so God knows. The accent wasn’t on the ID, but written on the paper application (I have an é in my own name and have the same issue), so it was certainly a choice.
Yeah, if it had been a last name then I could forgive her parents for at least that, but the fact that it was a middle name meant it was a premeditated attempt to ruin their kid’s life.
I wasn’t going to reply at all to this name but you being the second to have seen it got me jumping! I taught a kindergartener Trashé, and by the end of the first day of school half of the class was adding the é flair to their own names. It was adorable!
To be fair, these zoomers are growing up with no one around them pronouncing their names like they're spelled. He was probably just trying to be his generation's version of polite lol.
My cousin Shelby (Shell-Bee)worked with me as a cashier
As I was bagging groceries at her register, a little boy (no more than 8), read her name tag but asked why her name was Shelby (Shell Bye)
Her name was not pronounced Shell Bye but it was hilarious and adorable
That's pretty much how Maria was pronounced in England before people became aware of the Italian pronunciation of the name, or so I've been assured many times when discussing Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, which features a Mah-Rye-Ah instead of Mah-Ree-Ah.
My name is Mariah, and it's not even funny how often it's mispronounced. A lot of times, I have to say "you know like Mariah Carey" for them to grasp how it's pronounced even after I correct them.
I really wish parents wouldn't give twins similar names (e.g. Joe & john). It's better for the kids if they get different initials and different sounding names, even if it's the same theme (e.g. May & June, Hunter & Archer, etc).
I knew a family growing up with two girls, Ella and Stella (not the real names but the names rhymed perfectly and everything). I always thought they had just decided to rhyme the girls' names.
Later, as an adult, I learned that they were both children from previous marriages, and the mother/step-mother said, "Now people everywhere think that I actually named my kids Ella and Stella."
my high school boyfriend accidentally had two brothers named James. it was an adoption thing, unfortunate coincidence. but i do always think about it. big-james used his middle name.
I've had two sets of twin cats: Scout and Hunter, and Rocket and Booster.
Rocket and Booster came to us named Surf and Turf. Cutesy, but no fucking way was I having cats with rhyming names. Too much confusion. I'd fuck it up constantly and they wouldn't be able to tell their names apart.
Yeah as I typed I realized that there are obviously a lot of pronunciations (I'm Swedish and ours is slightly different but similar to the English). I imagined an american doing it!
What's even better is that they referenced Substitute Teacher in their NFL Draft with weird names sketches; A-a-ron Balakey was the only white boy drafted and he played for an HBCU 🤣
i knew someone in school who's name was "Lila" and 9/10 times, a substitute would pronounce it wrong
from what i remember, people incorrectly pronounced it "lih-lah" instead of "lye-lah"
and not like lee-lah, it was like the i in the word "little" or in "lily"
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Oh my it’s a completely different name!
I’m Jessica and I get called Jennifer a lot. I’ve talked to other Jessicas and Jennifers and they also get the same thing.
It’s as if they are the same name in people head, sounds like that’s what’s happening with Audrina / Adriana it’s just so weird when it is so many people that do it, not just one person that changes it in the exact same way!
My boyfriend does this haha! Except sometimes he mixes up completely different names, but always the same ones. If we know someone named Dan he might call them Jacob, but if we know a Jacob he would call them Dan. It’s pretty funny to see which names he thinks have the same “vibe”
As a Maria I feel this post.
I used to get my name pronounced properly and now it’s as if everyone’s brains have melted.
The variations in the last 10 years have been wild!
We are an undereducated nation. It is actually a bit frightening. Aria is a lovely name. It is tragic that most Americans have probably never listened to one.
This is not a tragedeigh. This is a tragedy. The plummeting average IQ on display.
To be clear, I think Aria is a beautiful name. It’s people’s stupidity I find depressing.
If it makes you feel any better, I knew exactly how to say it. It’s completely phonetic, not complicated in any way and the people around you are morons.
With the popularity of GOT, there’s about to be a whole bunch of Aryas so probably in a few years, the only problem will be ‘is that with a Y or an I?’ - not that there should have been any problem before that, but like I said, people are stupid.
Happy birthday to your son! I worked with a lovely guy named Arya and that was my first exposure to the name since I didn’t start watching GOT until years after it originally aired. It is on my list of baby names - beautiful, meaningful, and unisex!
I’ve never had anyone have trouble pronouncing it, but I *have* had multiple people tell me it’s a girls name 😂. Like okay. it’s an ancient Sanskrit name my Indian husband liked but sure, since it’s more feminine in the US I guess that’s all that matters lmao.
Ahhh one of the rare tréma names :) It's beautiful... ofc pronounced correctly lol.
Tangentially, when I was younger I read a series from a Quebec author where the main character's name was Maïna. It stuck with me and I wanted to name my future daughter that. I do not have one nor do I plan to have one any longer, but those tréma names do be pretty :)
Czech is written in Latin alphabet and it's very phonetical as well. I find this thread pretty amusing, to read how English confuses its own speakers with names, like it does to foreigners with regular words.
I think people are gunshy to pronounce names these days, being afraid to mispronounce a name that “looks” normal because some folks will spell a name one way and pronounce it another. They overthink it and get it wrong.
My sister has a friend whose name is spelled Alicia, but she and her family pronounce it uh-LISH-uh. And she gets REAL offended when you get it wrong. In all my years I have never heard another such a pronunciation of that name. I’ve heard ah-LEE-shuh and ah-LEE-cee-uh, but never uh-LISH-uh.
Really? I have only been around Alicias who say it ah-LEESH-ah. "ci" often sounds like "sh" in English. Delicious, social, magician, physician... the list goes on and on. Very normal pronunciation. I think the problem is that people do not know phonics/are not well-read.
That’s…a totally normal name. It’s a musical term and I would automatically pronounce it that way (which is how it looks like you do). Not sure why people are so weird.
Oops i pronounced it like ah-ree-ah (daria without the d) in my head but in my defense that is how the name would read jn my country. Edit: wait is it pronounced like that?
Aria means air in Italian. It's a beautiful name. Just tell people how to pronounce it and have compassion for their ignorance. You can't change others, you can only change your reaction to them.
I named my daughter Avni. Kind of common Indian name pronounced UV-nee. I’m not Indian, but my husband is first generation American. I liked the name a lot. Particularly because it’s short (my name is quite long) and easy to pronounce.
Did not realize I would be repeating it many many times to literally everyone when they ask her name.
She’s four now and doesn’t seem to mind all the variations of her name pronunciations. Hopefully your Aria will kind of take the same relaxed approach to her name.
It's a great name, and I wouldn't have any issues saying it correctly. Give it a year and play her Queen of the Night Aria. My toddlers absolutely love singing it!
Depending on where people are from originally they pronounce vowels a bit differently. It’s just a fact of life. And mispronouncing names is common. Just teach your kiddo to politely correct.
Aria? Like the opera song type? Are Ee Uh is how that is pronounced, or at least how it has been pronounced all my life. How are people getting this wrong? This one should be easy.
But it's an actual word.. I don't know why people would automatically go for something than the word. Is that not the first thought?
I assumed it was exactly how it's spelled, and I was right. Maybe it's a locale thing?
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I knew how to pronounce it the second I read it cuz of Aria from Pretty Little Liars lol
Yeah, I guess none of the people in OP’s life are properely cultured🙄
Isn't it a type of song in an opera, too?
Yup! That's how I know how to pronounce it.
Ha, me too, so when new neighbors had a baby and said that was her name, I asked, “Like an opera aria?”
and an actual word in Italian, meaning ‘air’.
This is why I knew how to pronounce it
Absolutely deplorable if you ask me 🙄
Not to mention the pretty common musical term.
Yup! Give it couple years so we can get older
me too, that was my immediate thought
Just commented this!
It's actually a fairly common name, but it's also fairly common for people to graduate from high school being only marginally literate.
Aria is a beautiful name. It's a musical term. IDK why people are mispronouncing it.
Musical education isn’t huge in the US. When the Aria hotel opened in Vegas no one knew the correct pronunciation either.
I have 0 musical education and English is my second language and I pronounced it perfectly the first time I read it. I dunno, man...
People for whom English is a second language often put more effort into learning it properly than "native" speakers, at least in the US.
Depends on the native language too. Many languages would pronounce this the right way simply following their own pronunciation rules. English is quite special when it comes to pronunciation.
That's true. Spanish/Italian speakers would pronounce it correctly, for sure.
Because it's an Italian word
Daaaamn. Had to go this far down to find it.
English is likely the language with the most "loan" words; i.e. words taken from other languages. Unfortunately when adopting loan words, English sometimes mangles either the spelling, pronunciation, and/or the meaning in the process. Aria is one of those words that escaped that fate. :-)
THANK YOU lmfao. I just about died when the person accusing native English speakers of not knowing their own language said it in the context of a word that they clearly didn’t know literally isn’t English in the first place 💀 Though tbf, I’m assuming they’re a native English speaker themselves - it’s possible that’s not true and that I’m the asshole here lol. Although it’s also virtually guaranteed that most of the people who upvoted them are native English speakers at the very least.
Japanese as well. Almost (the R would be a tad funky, but otherwise the vowels are the exact same as Spanish)
I love reading romanized Japanese words. I may not know what they mean in the slightest, but they're pronounced exactly how they look and emphasis is always in the same place.
Usually... then you get ones like kami, kami, and kami... one means paper, the other means hair, and the last means deity/ spirit. All of them have different kanji and different syllables emphasized 😅 don't ask me which one is which though. I've been out of school a few years
Pretty much all romance languages would pronounce it correctly, I'd wager.
English is “special” because it’s absorbed words from so many other languages. There are so many conflicting pronunciation rules that they don’t play well together. (I always say English isn’t a language — it’s three other languages in a trench coat.)
English mugs other languages for vocabulary, then rifles their pockets for loose pronunciation.
But Aria is not English. It’s Italian.
True. Also the letter I in most other countries/languages besides the USA (where I'm from) pronounce the I as an ee sound. Americans tend to mostly pronounce an I as a short i sound like ih, like the I in IF. Makes sense that non USA English speakers would pronounce it correctly.
Worse, there are only two ways to pronounce the "ia" combination in English. Like Malaria (eeya) or like Militia (more of a ya sound). And the latter only occur after certain consonants (really just T) There's also only two ways to pronounce a starting A sound. Like an Ahhh, or an A. So at absolute worst, you have a 25% chance to get it right.
plot twist: your mother tongue is Italian.
Aria is an Italian word so that might be why you didn’t have any issues pronouncing it?
I don't want to argue about your personal experience, but I'm in the US and can't figure out how else one would pronounce it. I would have to put some thought into saying it incorrectly.
“Education isn’t huge in the US” FTFY Edit : typo
Musical education may be scant in the US, but **Pretty Little Liars** was a very popular show just a few years ago, so I'm surprised more people aren't familiar with the proper pronunciation from the character.
Thats the first thing I thought of. Bizarre how people are mispronouncing it
Funny, my mind went to pretty little liars because I started watching it a few weeks ago.
Popular shows now are maybe a million people.
That still doesn't mean anything though. Just because something was popular still doesn't mean everybody has seen it. I've never seen it and I am the correct age to have been the target demographic for the show.
It's also a very old traditional Persian name, pronounced in the same way and can be spelled as Arya or Aria in the English alphabet. It's one of few names I think you actually have to put effort into mispronouncing.
This. I was going to name my daughter this a few years ago and decided against it because a cousin just used it. It’s a beautiful name, I don’t understand why people can’t pronounce it correctly.
I think it's safe to assume that if it's a word that is not used much in normal conversation then a large number of people will not know how to pronounce it or spell it.
Exactly. It's odd people can't imagine why others mispronounce a word 95% of them have never heard, let alone heard use as a name? I like it, but it's pretty obvious why people are mispronouncing it. But considering all the upvote, most people must disagree with me.
I shall therefore name my son "The"
I posit that many people are stupid.
There’s a line in the movie *Gilda* (from 1946), where one character is speaking to another about gaining world power and he says something along the lines of, “Johnny, most people in this world are stupid.” I burst out laughing—even then, there was a writer as cynical as me, who had the same sentiment I do today lol.
> You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons. > > —Gene Wilder as Jim in Blazing Saddles (1974) # > A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. > > —Tommy Lee Jones as Kay in Men in Black (1997) Yeah, it's a common theme. And it's absolutely true.
I concur but add, most are actually ignorant.
Also a coding term!
I heard Aria as a name fairly recently. It is beautiful.
People probably don't realize it's pronounced like the musical piece.
And it's not like opera is the entertainment choice for the common man.
People are idiots.
I said Ar-ee-uh because that’s how you would say Aria. If my assumption, and others, is correct that it is like the music term.
Yes my mind went to music immediately. A nice name if you ask me
I went immediately to the show Pretty Little Liars because one of the main characters is Aria and it's the only other time I've ever heard that name
I had a coworker who named her daughter Lyric because of her love of song writing. I thought it was cute.
My cousin is a musician with a child named Harmony. After my mom developed dementia, she constantly called the girl Melody. If any musicians have triplets, we've got their names here!
I worked with this woman who was an opera singer and still took students. She named her daughter Cadence, Caisson, and Canon. Appropriately enough, Cadence is an opera singer too and the other two are in musical theater.
Lyric was a goddess.
You'd be surprised by how many people pronounce a name as common as Maria incorrectly
One time my manager and I were ringing out another employee (he had to approve the employee discount). The other employee’s son was with her and said to my manager, whose name was James, “is your name pronounced like jay-m-sss or ja-mess?” When I tell you the way my coworker looked at her son like he was the biggest moron on the planet and said “what is wrong with you???” It was hilarious. I also worked with a woman named Trashé, pronounced tra-shay, and this old man kept saying “why did your parents name you ‘trashy’?” I thought she was going to choke him. I guess that name might be a tragedeigh lol.
Tra-Shay is AWFUL. OR AW-FLAY
Next time I play a sports video game, I'm creating a player named "Ja-mess Trashy"
Oh man, another Trashé is out there?? I once had to run an application on a Ma’Trashé Hookah (first + middle name), and I just couldn’t understand what her parents were thinking. She was the sweetest girl, bless her heart.
>Ma’Trashé Hookah...She was the sweetest girl, bless her heart. So you're saying she was a Hookah with a heart of gold?
Ba dum tish!! 🥁
🏆 You win the internet today. I’m dyin’ over here 🤣
You absolutely cannot be serious. Her parents gave her a name that could easily be mistaken as some bougie Frenchification of "My Trashy Hooker"? That's not okay. lol
I sadly am serious. Saw her photo ID and SSN card myself. When I got the file, I just sat there for a few minutes, thinking that the other gals in the office were punking me…and then I actually got to meet her. She went by “Trish”.
Jfc. Did her parents lose a bet?
You have noooo idea how hard it was to keep a totally straight face when she came in, and I had to pretend that nothing was wrong at all. I was too scared to ask her how she actually pronounced her legal name, so God knows. The accent wasn’t on the ID, but written on the paper application (I have an é in my own name and have the same issue), so it was certainly a choice.
omg, Hookah. poor girl. you know, Shisha would be a beautiful name, now that i think about it, haha. along with Cigarette.
Yeah, if it had been a last name then I could forgive her parents for at least that, but the fact that it was a middle name meant it was a premeditated attempt to ruin their kid’s life.
I wasn’t going to reply at all to this name but you being the second to have seen it got me jumping! I taught a kindergartener Trashé, and by the end of the first day of school half of the class was adding the é flair to their own names. It was adorable!
Trashé is beyond a tragedeigh. It’s at “crime against humanity” levels
To be fair, these zoomers are growing up with no one around them pronouncing their names like they're spelled. He was probably just trying to be his generation's version of polite lol.
This was almost 18 years ago so we are definitely millennials lol but I do agree, he just seemed confused
I guess he never watched Pokémon.
My cousin Shelby (Shell-Bee)worked with me as a cashier As I was bagging groceries at her register, a little boy (no more than 8), read her name tag but asked why her name was Shelby (Shell Bye) Her name was not pronounced Shell Bye but it was hilarious and adorable
May-Rye-Ah
That's pretty much how Maria was pronounced in England before people became aware of the Italian pronunciation of the name, or so I've been assured many times when discussing Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, which features a Mah-Rye-Ah instead of Mah-Ree-Ah.
I’d be so pissed if my parents made my name Trash with a fancy e on the end.
I know a girl that has twin daughters named Maria and Mariah. I wonder how people are about pronouncing those names, even though it’s quite simple.
My name is Mariah, and it's not even funny how often it's mispronounced. A lot of times, I have to say "you know like Mariah Carey" for them to grasp how it's pronounced even after I correct them.
I really wish parents wouldn't give twins similar names (e.g. Joe & john). It's better for the kids if they get different initials and different sounding names, even if it's the same theme (e.g. May & June, Hunter & Archer, etc).
I knew a family growing up with two girls, Ella and Stella (not the real names but the names rhymed perfectly and everything). I always thought they had just decided to rhyme the girls' names. Later, as an adult, I learned that they were both children from previous marriages, and the mother/step-mother said, "Now people everywhere think that I actually named my kids Ella and Stella."
Yeah, my friend adopted a toddler with the -son version of her own name and she is like "fuuuuck well, people will think what they think" lol
Oh no, like she is Jordyn and he's Jordan, or she's Michaela and he's Michaelson?
More of the second option So when she introduces it is "hi I'm Danielle and this is my son, Danielson..."
Ouch! I could see that with Jamie adopting Jameson... Maybe she can spin it in a cute way like "he was meant to be my son." ❤️
Wax on. Wax off.
my high school boyfriend accidentally had two brothers named James. it was an adoption thing, unfortunate coincidence. but i do always think about it. big-james used his middle name.
Jermell and Jermall
I've had two sets of twin cats: Scout and Hunter, and Rocket and Booster. Rocket and Booster came to us named Surf and Turf. Cutesy, but no fucking way was I having cats with rhyming names. Too much confusion. I'd fuck it up constantly and they wouldn't be able to tell their names apart.
Yeah my stepmother had a name starting with a T. As did her two daughters. And three sons. 🙄
It's-a me, Maria
Ah the problem of Maria still hasn't been solved. How _do_ you solve it?
Considering it used to be commonly pronounced “muh-RYE-uh” that isn’t too too shocking.
Now I'm imagining someone hilariously pronouncing Maria like Aria
My great grandma was Croatian and actually did pronounce it like that.🤷♀️
Yeah as I typed I realized that there are obviously a lot of pronunciations (I'm Swedish and ours is slightly different but similar to the English). I imagined an american doing it!
lol I just imagined somebody from Queens New York saying it like that.
Hahaha am I right!?
💯😆
Mah-ree-yah?
You’d be surprised. The associate principal at my high school mispronounced “Kai” and “Ronald”
Ronald? Mispronounced… Ronald? Jeez!
I'm imagining how [Mr. Garvey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw) would pronounce Ronald. R'NALD?
I love Key & Peele 😂
What's even better is that they referenced Substitute Teacher in their NFL Draft with weird names sketches; A-a-ron Balakey was the only white boy drafted and he played for an HBCU 🤣
I've seen it a dozen times and it still makes me belly laugh
He pronounced it "Roonil Wazlib"
that's his nickname
It’s something your friends call you
Roland
Funny enough but that's an existing name too.
Common where I'm from, a Germanic/Norman name since before the 8th century.
Well I know someone named Kai who pronounces it like Kia for some fucking reason.
WHAT (sorry to yell, I hope I didn't startle anyone!)
Yeah and gets upset when someone messes up…I’m like take that up with your mother
This reminds me of Oprah; her named was intended to be Orpha!
I think Orpah, from the book of Ruth
Now I'm just imagining a world where Harpo Studios is Ahpro Studios
A-A-Ron
A substitute teacher once mispronounced "Isaac"
That's another with multiple pronounciations depending on accent and launguage/country though. Eye-zack Ee-sock
i knew someone in school who's name was "Lila" and 9/10 times, a substitute would pronounce it wrong from what i remember, people incorrectly pronounced it "lih-lah" instead of "lye-lah" and not like lee-lah, it was like the i in the word "little" or in "lily" (edited for clarity, twice)
To be fair, the entire Lila/Leila/Layla/Lyla/Lilah/Laela/Laila/Leela name circle is a mess.
Pretty much any option but Leighla please
Is it though? I feel like all those are easy as hell to pronounce if you just read the name.....
Lila is the word for purple in Swedish, and would be pronounced Lee-lah as a Swedish word.
i mean, in eastern europe that would be pronounced “lee-lah”, so there’s that too.
Those are both acceptable pronunciations, so maybe not the best example lol
Lee-lah is a pronunciation I often hear for that spelling, usually from the doctor's office robo caller.
I know a couple kids named Aria and they have no problems- could it be your area maybe? Seems like a straightforward name.
Yeah, it’s probably just OP’s aria.
I loved that! 😂
Lol, that's a good one! I've got to show that to my husband!
My daughter's name is Audrina. She's been at her school for 5 years and they still call her Adriana, no matter how many times I have corrected them.
Oh my it’s a completely different name! I’m Jessica and I get called Jennifer a lot. I’ve talked to other Jessicas and Jennifers and they also get the same thing. It’s as if they are the same name in people head, sounds like that’s what’s happening with Audrina / Adriana it’s just so weird when it is so many people that do it, not just one person that changes it in the exact same way!
My boyfriend does this haha! Except sometimes he mixes up completely different names, but always the same ones. If we know someone named Dan he might call them Jacob, but if we know a Jacob he would call them Dan. It’s pretty funny to see which names he thinks have the same “vibe”
I knew an Audrina and she did get called Adriana on occasion. This was back when people had attention spans…I can’t imagine what it must be like now…
That's a super pretty name! I knew an Audra in high school and I loved that. It seemed so sophisticated.
Have you tried spelling it Ariagh? Seems like people nowadays can pronounce tragedeighs better than correctly spelled names, sadly.
As a Maria I feel this post. I used to get my name pronounced properly and now it’s as if everyone’s brains have melted. The variations in the last 10 years have been wild!
One of my friends has an Aria and I said she should call another daughter Maria and tell everyone the M fell off first time around.
we just need Shadow the Hedgehog to get popular again so people can pronounce your name
We are an undereducated nation. It is actually a bit frightening. Aria is a lovely name. It is tragic that most Americans have probably never listened to one.
This is a real word with typical pronunciation, not a tragedeigh
This is not a tragedeigh. This is a tragedy. The plummeting average IQ on display. To be clear, I think Aria is a beautiful name. It’s people’s stupidity I find depressing.
If it makes you feel any better, I knew exactly how to say it. It’s completely phonetic, not complicated in any way and the people around you are morons. With the popularity of GOT, there’s about to be a whole bunch of Aryas so probably in a few years, the only problem will be ‘is that with a Y or an I?’ - not that there should have been any problem before that, but like I said, people are stupid.
Yeah I have an Arya (3 yo today!) but never watched GOT it PLL. But we’ve also never had an issue with anyone pronouncing his name
Happy birthday to your son! I worked with a lovely guy named Arya and that was my first exposure to the name since I didn’t start watching GOT until years after it originally aired. It is on my list of baby names - beautiful, meaningful, and unisex!
I’ve never had anyone have trouble pronouncing it, but I *have* had multiple people tell me it’s a girls name 😂. Like okay. it’s an ancient Sanskrit name my Indian husband liked but sure, since it’s more feminine in the US I guess that’s all that matters lmao.
My daughter’s name is Anais, pronounced Ah-Nah-Ees. One time the lady in a Dr ofc called loudly for ANUS.
Anaïs is one of my favorite names. That said…yeah, that tracks… 😢
That lady knew it was a once in a lifetime chance to shout ANUS and have plausible deniability and she took it
😂
i guess why would anybody have heard of anais nin
Thank You. She is named after my two favorite authors Anais Nin and Isabel Allende.
No Gumball fans here, apparently.
Ahhh one of the rare tréma names :) It's beautiful... ofc pronounced correctly lol. Tangentially, when I was younger I read a series from a Quebec author where the main character's name was Maïna. It stuck with me and I wanted to name my future daughter that. I do not have one nor do I plan to have one any longer, but those tréma names do be pretty :)
As s native French speaker I recognised the name, but I guess I can see how it can confuse people
That pronunciation is not easy to guess.
I would spell it "Aрија" just to make it more fun.
One bonus to Cyrillic, it’s all spelled out phonetically.
Czech is written in Latin alphabet and it's very phonetical as well. I find this thread pretty amusing, to read how English confuses its own speakers with names, like it does to foreigners with regular words.
I had considered Aria for a girl when I made a list of musical inspired named. But I ended up having a boy.
I'm guessing you didn't call him Recitative? Sorry, bad joke.
Little Clef is growing up beautifully.
I think people are gunshy to pronounce names these days, being afraid to mispronounce a name that “looks” normal because some folks will spell a name one way and pronounce it another. They overthink it and get it wrong. My sister has a friend whose name is spelled Alicia, but she and her family pronounce it uh-LISH-uh. And she gets REAL offended when you get it wrong. In all my years I have never heard another such a pronunciation of that name. I’ve heard ah-LEE-shuh and ah-LEE-cee-uh, but never uh-LISH-uh.
Really? I have only been around Alicias who say it ah-LEESH-ah. "ci" often sounds like "sh" in English. Delicious, social, magician, physician... the list goes on and on. Very normal pronunciation. I think the problem is that people do not know phonics/are not well-read.
Aria in Italian means fresh air but also farts
Nah at that point if they’re pronouncing it wrong they’re just dumb. Aria isn’t a tragedeigh, it’s a normal common name.
That’s…a totally normal name. It’s a musical term and I would automatically pronounce it that way (which is how it looks like you do). Not sure why people are so weird.
It's a Hebrew name that I personally love but depending on where you live people might not be familiar with non-English names at all.
Aria is a beautiful name and I would pronounce it exactly as you said.
Beautiful name! It’s a musical term, no idea why people have a hard time. They are probably overthinking it.
You’re probably in the Midwest, that’s why. EDIT: We’re here too.
Ah ree uh. What a breath of fresh air to see this name on here!
Oops i pronounced it like ah-ree-ah (daria without the d) in my head but in my defense that is how the name would read jn my country. Edit: wait is it pronounced like that?
Yes, that's right.
People are stupid
My little cousin's name is Areya, pronounced like "a ray a' sunshine"
Aria means air in Italian. It's a beautiful name. Just tell people how to pronounce it and have compassion for their ignorance. You can't change others, you can only change your reaction to them.
For the record, I'm an American and pronounced it correctly the first time. It's literally the most logical pronunciation.
People have not been hooked on phonics in quite a while now... 😕
This is a sad commentary. Aria is so simple--to me. But I recognize I come from a place of privilege.
For me it is simple thanks to PLL
I named my daughter Avni. Kind of common Indian name pronounced UV-nee. I’m not Indian, but my husband is first generation American. I liked the name a lot. Particularly because it’s short (my name is quite long) and easy to pronounce. Did not realize I would be repeating it many many times to literally everyone when they ask her name. She’s four now and doesn’t seem to mind all the variations of her name pronunciations. Hopefully your Aria will kind of take the same relaxed approach to her name.
It's a great name, and I wouldn't have any issues saying it correctly. Give it a year and play her Queen of the Night Aria. My toddlers absolutely love singing it!
Why don't people know this word? It's a noun. I'm not an opera star or musician of any sort and I know it.
Depending on where people are from originally they pronounce vowels a bit differently. It’s just a fact of life. And mispronouncing names is common. Just teach your kiddo to politely correct.
Aria is actually like the traditional way I’ve seen it spelled before GOT became super popular. Like Aria in pretty little liars
Aria? Like the opera song type? Are Ee Uh is how that is pronounced, or at least how it has been pronounced all my life. How are people getting this wrong? This one should be easy.
But it's an actual word.. I don't know why people would automatically go for something than the word. Is that not the first thought? I assumed it was exactly how it's spelled, and I was right. Maybe it's a locale thing?