Just what the title says – how do you pronounce aunt, and where did you grow up?
I pronounce it “ahnt”. Grew up in redneck regions of Florida.
(Poll is inspired by thisone.)
I don’t know how to describe it, but I have always pronounced it with a tense a, a homonym of ant. Let me write it aynt, although that exaggerates it a lot. So I had and aynt Ann (lax a), while my daughter’s Freshman roommate had an ahnt Aynn. I am from Philadelphia; she was from central Mass. Incidentally for me (and all other native Philadelphians) ran, can (the modal), and began rhyme with each other (lax a) and do not rhyme with ban, can (noun and verb), fan, man, and all other words ending in an (tense a).
“Ant.” I grew up in western PA. In my hometown, pronunciation seems to be a racial divide. All of the white people I know say “ant” and all of the black people say “ahnt.”
Been there, done that, found out it was done before me. How do you pronounce aunt? (my old one)
Midwesterner by upbringing, “ant.”
An age-old question? 
I pronounce it “ant”.
But I’m also a small burrowing social insect so it all works out.
Both, actually. It depends on the day with no real pattern that I’ve noticed.
Lived my entire life in the Pacific Northwest, and have never heard anyone pronounce aunt as anything besides “ant”.
From redneck region of (superfluous?) Maine. Everyone pronounces it “ahnt.”
Same here in Michigan. Whites have “ants,” blacks have “ahnts” or “ahnties.”
Auntie. Say it like it’s spelled.
i say it the correct way: ahnt. (New England)
Ahnt. Or, more often, ahntie.
The same way as I say “aren’t”, rhyming with “can’t”.
Other known pronunciations are like “awnt” (with “a” something like in “flaunt”) and “aynt” pronounced something like “ain’t” – Andy Griffith used this pronunciation whenever he said “Aunt Bea”, it sounded like “Ain’t Bee”.
Fetching my country, the UK, into the ring: to the best of my knowledge everyone here, regardless of origin or colour, says “ahnt”: “ant” for one’s parent’s sister, sounds downright weird to a Brit.
Learning of the frequent American “ant” pronunciation, clarified something for me. In childhood, I came across Ogden Nash’s verse:
The anteater
Is an uncle-beater.
On the other hand, the skunk’ll
Beat his aunt and eat his uncle.
Originally, I thought this weak and far-fetched, for the sake of a bit of lame wordplay – not up to Ogden’s usual standard. Discovering the “ant” pronunciation option, gave the verse a good deal more point.
I grew up saying “ant,” but since about my mid-20’s I find myself saying “ahnt” (perhaps spelled better “awnt,” for New Yorkers like myself) maybe about a third of the time, for no particular reason that I can discern.
? Northerners say “ant”.
Born in Syracuse, I say Ant. Tennessee-born hubby says Aint. I don’t know anyone who says Ahhnt, but my African-American son in law, born in Georgia, his family, and now my daughter say Awwnt or Awwntee. I only mention race because that seems to be a culturally black pronunciation, here in GA anyway.