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I've always read it as a-DEHR-in. I think it improves the sound if you make sure the first syllable really is a short 'a' vowel, and not merely a schwa.

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To me, seeing the way it is spelt I pronounce it ADD - ER - IN

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unsure if it's because I'm from NZ or that's just how I've read it as :)

My first instinct would be to pronounce it ah-DEH-rin.

I say it A-duur-in, almost rhyming with pattern and saturn. I can't recall having come across it in real life, and I don't remember if I've ever heard it said... but I have seen it quite a bit, here on these boards and on like nameberry and similar sites.

This message was edited 1/22/2015, 5:54 PM

If I had no knowledge of Welsh, ADD-dare-en. But I've spent time with Welsh accents and with their speech patterns would now think the stress is on the second syllable.

ah DEH rin, & yes I've seen it before :) But only as a word, never as a name.

I've seen it written but I've never heard it pronounced. My best guess is uh-DAIR-en.

I'd say uh-DER-in.

I'd pronounce it a-DEH-rin, but I haven't heard it pronounced before.

Well, when I originally saw this name, I guessed "uh-DARE-in", "DARE" rhyming with "CARE". But, I should say that I'd already been looking at Welsh names and how they're pronounced because of my Welsh ancestry.

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The only other way I think people might pronounce it, would be to stress the first syllable, "ADD-eh-rin", which just doesn't sound right to me, personally, so I wouldn't try that first.