I have noticed lately that the name "Maren" is pronounced like Karen. My name is Maren and I am named after my great grandmother from Denmark and her mother before her. It is pronounced like Mah-ren. I think it is beautiful pronounced that way--but rarely do doctor's offices ever get it right ;)
My daughter's name is Maren & I have always pronounced it Ma-REN. She says I should have spelled it Marin, because that is the normal spelling of how it is pronounced. I say "Who wants to be normal?" I love the name!
My name, strangely enough, is also Maren. I also have been called many different names over the years, the most common being Marilyn, Maria, Marie or Marian. I correct people by saying that my name is Maren like Karen but with an M. My name was originally my great grandmother's who was Danish and and I love the fact that it is very different from the all too common names out there. I would not want to change it.
If you're at all familiar with Latin-based languages, the pronunciation is MAH-ren. It is absolutely NOT like Karen or Sharon. It means star of the sea and is a derivative of Mary. In Italian, "mare" is sea; it's pronounced maah-rea. Maren is a Scandanavian and Scottish variation of Mary, but that doesn't mean we get to bastardize the pronunciation. Sorry for the rant: I'm Italian and my daughter's name is Maren. I live in Texas, and she - at 3 - corrects people when they mispronounce her name.
In Denmark it's pronounced Mahr-un (mahr with the same kind of a sound as in car). It's considered quite the oldfashioned unelegant hill billy name and is strongly associated with dimwitted milkmaids. I don't know why, but being Danish I can't seem to get past that image myself. No offence to people with this name.I think the name Maren is dying out here.
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It is probably said the same way as Sharon or Karen.
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My mother is of primarily Norwegian descent. She pronounces it as Mah-hren. She has an umlaut over the a: Mären. As for my opinion, the pronunciation of Mair-in is ugly and incorrect.