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Don't like at all, Ayz-ling is how I instinctively pronounce it.

An acquaintance of mine is named Aisling, we live in the states and she pronounces it Ayz-ling with the g and all. I think this was a case of her parents finding it in a babybook but having no idea on pronunciation so they just ran with it. She was born in the pre-internet era of course. With that said.. I may be bad but I love her 'incorrect' pronunciation out of all of them. As an adolescent I loved her name and I thought she had the most beautiful name out of anyone I knew at the time. When I took the time to look it up online when I was maybe 19 ish and saw it's 'real' pronunciations I was actually completely floored & disappointed. Ash-Lynn feels very trendy & boring to me. With that said, she had reported to me that it was extremely rare that people call her by the Irish pronunciations and this is probably because it's a name you almost never see in my region. She will get called Ainsley more than Ashleen or Aslynn anyday I've been informed.

This message was edited 3/13/2021, 5:09 AM

Beautiful! I pronounce it Ash-lynn.

I love it. And all three pronunciations are nice. I think I may be partial to Ash-leen too, though.

I pronounce it as AYS-ling. I don't really like either of the pronounciations, overall I don't care for it.

I don’t really like it, it’s too similar to Ashley for me. In Northern Ireland, at least in the area I’ve lived in, it’s pronounced ASH-leen, which I do think sounds nicer then ASH-lin or ASH-ling.

This message was edited 3/11/2021, 2:36 PM

I prefer the ASH-lin pronounciation. I prefer Aislinn spelling, Aisling is ok