Meaning and background
The story behind Oberon
Oberon is a literary name with an older name-family link. Shakespeare used it for the king of the fairies in *A Midsummer Night's Dream*, and the spelling is treated as a variant of Auberon. It also names one of Uranus's moons. The British pronunciation is documented, so it need not be guessed from the spelling, and fairy king is a character association rather than a translation of each syllable.
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Oberon appears in 10 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/oʊbɚɑn/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/oʊbɚɑn/ · primary stress on syllable 1OW1 B ER0 AA2 N
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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