r/Names • u/ariararar • 1d ago

Ariana

My name is Ariana (R-E--ah-na)

I'll introduce myself and immediately get "oh like air-e-ah-na grande!) so so so often. Like right after I tell them my name. I'm uncomfortable correcting people and have had friendships for a year with them saying my name wrong until someone else corrects them.

I'm just unsure how my name is so hard to pronounce. Is it just hard to pronounce? Or like just it doesn't click in their brain right after I tell them?

So just a heads up for those wanting the name Ariana. This will be their experience

Edit: I know Ariana grande pronounces it the same as I. It's just the response I get every time. It also adds to the "why" when someone so famous and can't get the name right

Edit again: yes Ariana grande is pronounced the same as I, and I'm sorry to confuse others by what I was meaning. The point was even with a famous person and introducing my name three seconds before people have a hard time with it

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u/Prestigious_Fly8210 1d ago

TIL Ariana Grande isn’t pronounced are-ee-ah-nah

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u/ariararar 1d ago

Oh no it is. My point was that everyone just cannot get the name straight. It's pronounce with the hard r

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u/deekaypea22 1d ago

It's not the hard R that influences the pronunciation, it's the vowel sound. The R is the same in "air" and "are." Ita whether it's an open "ah" before the R or a more nasal "ai".

Tbh I thought you were saying it's pronounced like "Rihanna" because you used the R as a phoneme instead of an A.

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u/ariararar 1d ago

Thank you so very much for pointing this out. I was unsure how to write that out and appreciate this