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I love that name too. That's how I say it in my head, As-TRAY-a.

Maybe you pronounce it like Austria the country. Others I could think of are:
AS-trey-uh
ASE-trey-uh
is-DREY-uh

There's an English poem called Astraea Redux, written for political reasons in the seventeenth century. The way its author pronounced Astraea would probably have been: as-tree-a. The way the ancient Romans would have pronounced it would have been more like: as-try-a.

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Either of those sounds beter to me than as-tray-a, who sounds as if she's perpetually going astray! What if you tweak the spelling and make it Astrea? Like encyclopaedia/encyclopedia!

There are several legitimate ways to pronounce Astraea. See this message for more: http://www.behindthename.com/bb/arcview.php?id=109379&board=gen.

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Miranda

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Proud adopter of 15 PPs. See my profile for their names.

Okay so I found an old post on here and it looks like the "ae" can have a few different pronunciations that are acceptable.

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A-stree-a
A-stray-a
A-stry-a

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So I guess we would just have to pick the one that we like, and probably the most common one that people would say having seen the name and then go with it. :)

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Thanks

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The original one is ah-strah-eh-ah (eh kinda like in pet, men...).

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~~ Claire ~~

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