Maren

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!

I was named after my great, great grandmother from Tonder Denmark. I am Marentina.

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Mahr-en is the pronunciation. [noted -ed]

Rhymes with Karen.

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.

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I think the name Maren is dying out here.

It is probably said the same way as Sharon or Karen.

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.

In Norway, it is pronounced as MAH-ren.