Another name to discuss today, so what are your opinions? Does the dated [name]Ashley[/name] hurt it in some way?
[name]How[/name] is it pronounced?
I like it. 
I prefer [name]Aislinn[/name] over [name]Aisling[/name] (the -ing just seems weird as a name ending to me, but it doesn’t really bother me), but I do like it a lot.
Personally, being an [name]Ashley[/name] (and loving my name), the similarity to [name]Ashley[/name] just makes me like it even more.
@littlebite41-I believe its pronounced [name]Ash[/name]-ling, but I’ve heard it being pronounced [name]Ash[/name]-leen and [name]Ash[/name]-lyn as well.
I have a dear friend named [name]Aisling[/name] and it’s pronounced [name]Ash[/name]-leen. I love it!
I love it so much. Very pretty yet it could suit a tom-boy.
~[name]Jasmine[/name]
the g is silent and the -in vowel is pronounced in the Irish way. It’s tough to adapt outside of [name]Ireland[/name]. But it has a smooth, pretty sound and a nice meaning. I think the similarity to [name]Ashley[/name] will help it-- in general, names don’t change by paradigm shifts, but by evolution. [name]Ashley[/name] flows into [name]Ashlyn[/name] flows into [name]Aisling[/name]-- not into [name]Greer[/name], you know?
It’s pronounced [name]ASH[/name]-leen. I used to love it, I thought it was pronounced straight forward, with the ling at the end. It’s still nice though, I prefer Ainsel or [name]Ainsley[/name] (not that they’ve got anything to do with [name]Aisling[/name]!).
In pre-internet-online-pronunciation-guides time, I knew parents in the US who named daughters [name]Aislinn[/name]. They grew up being called [name]Ace[/name]-linn…The one I know best is now 27, and goes by: [name]Ace[/name]-linn. I guess there’s no going back for her at this point, as far as she’s concerned, that’s her name. I guess this is an example of a maladaptation.
i have a childhood friend who was an [name]Aisling[/name] (I was a kid so I always pronounced it with the “g.”) I loved it. Still do. Great name!
Well, you could do what people (myself included) before discovering Internet sites explaining how to actually pronounce the name and just pronounce it as it’s written which is what makes the most sense anyway. There’s several Irish names I prefer the mispronunciation to the real pronunciation.
The main character in the book [name]Ash[/name] by [name]Malinda[/name] Lo is called [name]Aisling[/name], and while reading that the name really grew on me.
[name]Aisling[/name] is pronounced [name]Ash[/name]-ling, the “g” at the end is pronounced. [name]Aislinn[/name] is [name]Ash[/name]-lynn, no “g”. I think its nice.
I think it is kind of a cool name. It looks nice on paper.
I don’t know. If I were given a beautiful Irish name and found out my parents had been mispronouncing it for years, I’d kinda feel dumb. Like the girl I grew up with who’s parents gave her the beautiful name of [name]Siobhan[/name], but pronounced it COMPLETELY wrong. Such a shame. If you want to give your kid a traditional name to honor your lineage, at least learn how to say it correctly.
I love the sound of [name]Aisling[/name]/[name]Aislinn[/name], but to use it in [name]North[/name] [name]America[/name] I’d honestly spell it [name]Ashlyn[/name]… yes it’s ‘butchering’ the spelling but I hate name mispronunciations, and I feel like Irish spellings just don’t go over well here.
A woman I knew when I was little had 4 little girls, one of them was [name]Aislinn[/name] and she said it [name]Ace[/name]-lynn. 
so some people don’t look into the background of names I suppose.
What makes most sense is to pronounce it using the Gaelic alphabet. You know… the language the name was invented for… The Irish weren’t just throwing letters in there for kicks 
It’s pronounced ash-lin, and I think it’s pretty and could be used instead of [name]Ashley[/name]. And it’s Irish!
I actually quite like it. I don’t really associate it with the name [name]Ashley[/name], as I see them as two different names.