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Help[Opinions] Erin for a boy.
I met a boy today who name was Erin. I kind of like it WDYT?
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Hmmm, I don't know about this one. It's too feminine for a boy, but too masculine for a girl, IMO.
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There was a little boy at the school that I worked at named Erin. He was a kindergarten student and to be honest, with his long, curly, red, hair...it was hard to tell if the poor child was a girl or a boy. Teachers who did not know him were confused on more than one occasion.
Aeron or I think (as suggested above) that Ciaran is an excellent alternative. But ultimately you must decide how much the name and spelling of Erin means to you.
Aeron or I think (as suggested above) that Ciaran is an excellent alternative. But ultimately you must decide how much the name and spelling of Erin means to you.
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It's strictly female to me, so: no. But I love Aran, Aron and Aaron.
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As a person that grew up in around a lot of Irish Catholics, Erin is strictly female for me. Here they mostly sound the same except for the endings. -ron and -rin are pronounced differently although -ron is sort of pronounced like -run. But definitely not like an i. I wouldn't use it and I think a guy being named Erin around here would get a lot of strange looks.
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Prefer Aran
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No.
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As mom of an Aaron, living in a place where Aaron and Erin are essentially pronounced the same, Erin on a boy leaves me scratching my head and wondering why.
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It's not an overtly feminine sounding name so I can see it on a boy, but, country's are usually personified as feminine though, which makes me think it should really stay as a feminine name.
I pronounce Aaron - Ar-in not Er-in so it wasn't immediately apparent to me as a variant spelling. If his parents did mean it like this I agree they should have stuck with the spelling Aaron, but If they were wanting to honour irish heritage or something then that's not so bad.
I pronounce Aaron - Ar-in not Er-in so it wasn't immediately apparent to me as a variant spelling. If his parents did mean it like this I agree they should have stuck with the spelling Aaron, but If they were wanting to honour irish heritage or something then that's not so bad.
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ditto
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Prefer this for a girl. Isn't Aaron prn the same way? I think if someone wanted to use this name for a boy they should spell it Aaron because Erin is generally used for girls. That said, the name does look and sound unisex so I think that if more boys were called Erin I could accept it more as a boy's name.
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I pronounce them slightly differently: Erin is err-in, Aaron is air-in. Actually, the last one is a mix between -in and -on, which I can't write out.
To the OP: I know a man named Erin as well. It's a bit like imagining a macho man holding a purple sequined purse to me, in that there's nothing necessarily wrong with it, it just makes little sense to me.
To the OP: I know a man named Erin as well. It's a bit like imagining a macho man holding a purple sequined purse to me, in that there's nothing necessarily wrong with it, it just makes little sense to me.
This message was edited 4/21/2009, 2:58 PM
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I prefer Aaron
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