Quote Originally Posted by Sephitachi7 View Post
It was a mistranslation. I remember when I bought the PC version of FF7, the name by default was still 'Aeris' , but if you look in the box in the back there are images of fight scenes. One of which calls her by her real name, 'Aerith'.
That's not really conclusive... in the instruction manual for the PAL version of FFVII, several screenshots have Cloud named 'nadim' and Red XIII named simply 'Red'.