Irie

How do you pronounce the Japanese girl's name "Irie"?

Would it be pronounced "EyeRee"?

Are you sure that is girl's first name? I know someone with that as her family name, which is pronounced differently from what you wrote.

On the other hand, if that is an English name she picked for herself to be used while she is in an English speaking country, the pronunciation you suggested sounds plausible.

As AK said, I know Irie(入江; means bay) as a family name, too.
I can't declare because Japanese personal names have full of variety,
but if it's a feminine name, it's very rare.

Or Rie(利恵 or something) is a familiar female name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rie

About Japanese pronunciation, you may want to study romaji.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4kl6siX-0A
Japanese have a lot of Kanji charactors,
but for speaking, basically it's only 5 vowels [a,i,u,e,o] and consonants.

I'm sure it's a Japanese first name, but I'm not sure of the pronounciation.

Here's what I read online.

Irie is a name for Girl originally come from Japan that means Get in favor . This name have 4 characters, start with letter I and very popular in Japanese people. You can use Irie for baby name, business company name, user id, nick name, and more.

"Irie" Name Detail Information :

Name : Irie
Meaning of The Name : Get in favor
Origin (Come From) : Japanese
Origin Country (s) : Japan
Baby Gender : Girl
Sex : Girl
Initial Letter : I
Number of Character (s) : 4
Other Info : -
Conclusion : The meaning of Irie is Get in favor (in Japanese ).

Please check other sources for what is Irie means in Japanese for accuracy!

http://en.organisasi.org/name-meaning/japanese/irie

How do you pronounce the Japanese girl's name "Irie"?

いりえ

Would it be pronounced "EyeRee"?

い - i
り - ri
え - e

Personally I have never heard of this first name during my life so far in Japan, but with that meaning what I can imagine is 入恵, "i-ri-e." The pronunciation comes in three syllables, and is "ee-ree-e."

Just as an afterthought...

The description says "(the name) comes from) Japan/Japanese." This might mean that it has somehow come to be used in an English-speaking country as part of imported, semi-English name. (I can tell you it is definitely not "very popular" in Japan.)

I have seen it written in kanji in shop names, though, where the family name is "Irie." Also as I searched online I have seen shop names spelled in alphabets like you showed, in fashion boutiques/nail art salons and places like that, where they say the pronunciation is "eye-ree," as if it was an originally English word.