Keira or Kiera

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Anonymous wrote:I would pronounce Keira (Keer-uh) and Kiera (Kee-eh-ruh) and Ciara (Cee-a-ruh). All very different.

This is also what I would do.

[Anonymous]

Bridget.

Or alternatively, Siobhan. 😉

[Anonymous]

Keira- definitely. One of my best friends is named Keira and surprisingly few people mispronounce her name

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:well looks like a lifetime of correcting the spelling of her name. How about Kira?

This

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I literally can’t read. I stared at the question for a whole minute not being able to see the difference. If someone asked me how to spell the name, I’d go with Kiera because of I before E. But now that I think about it, the except after C may apply since the name is supposed to be spelled with a C so who knows

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Anonymous wrote:We considered using the original Ciara but nobody seemed to say it right. Apparently, the anglicized version is traditionally Kiera (like Kieran) but Keira is more common (like Keira Knightly). Which way makes more sense to you?

Qherah

[Anonymous]

Kyra hands down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a Kira. A few misspellings but it seems most people have defaulted to spelling it the way we do. Always pronounced correctly.

I have a Kira - chose it because I thought the pronunciation was the most intuitive out of all the spellings, but a surprising number of people pronounce it "Kai-ruh" (rhymes with Tyra). I was surprised by that. But I still think all the other spellings get more mispronunciations.

If you look online, most sources claim that Kira and Kyra are derived from the Russian word for "throne" instead of the Irish name meaning something like "little dark one."

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I’m Irish and I would Anglicize Ciara as Kiera. Like Kieran. It just makes no sense whatsoever to me to put an e before an I. Who cares how one actress spells it. Either way, it’s okay to hcorrevt people’s pronunciations. I’ve been doing all my life and it’s no big deal. I’d rather have the spelling right and to me Kiera makes much more sense. (I have a little cousin Kiera and she’s never had a problem.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would pronounce Keira (Keer-uh) and Kiera (Kee-eh-ruh) and Ciara (Cee-a-ruh). All very different.

This is also what I would do.

+1 As a teacher, this name drives me nuts. I’ve had all these spelling variations all pronounced differently. It’s really frustrating when you try to get kids’ names correct but a given spelling has two or three variations in pronunciation, even in the same year. And then the kids feel so insulted.

If you want Keer-uh consistently, please go with Kira. (Kyra is often With a long I sound)

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would pronounce Keira (Keer-uh) and Kiera (Kee-eh-ruh) and Ciara (Cee-a-ruh). All very different.

This is also what I would do.

+1 As a teacher, this name drives me nuts. I’ve had all these spelling variations all pronounced differently. It’s really frustrating when you try to get kids’ names correct but a given spelling has two or three variations in pronunciation, even in the same year. And then the kids feel so insulted.

If you want Keer-uh consistently, please go with Kira. (Kyra is often With a long I sound)

Yes, I grew up with a Kyra pronounced K-eye-ra

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Update from someone who had this debate (not OP). Wanted to spell DD’s name Kiera and pronounce it Keer-ah. Went with Keira thinking that oriole would pronounce Kiera Key-air-ah. Turns out most people misspell DD’s name as Kiera and mispronounce it. If I could do it again, I would pick a different name. It’s too annoying.

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*people would

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a Kira. A few misspellings but it seems most people have defaulted to spelling it the way we do. Always pronounced correctly.

I have a Kira - chose it because I thought the pronunciation was the most intuitive out of all the spellings, but a surprising number of people pronounce it "Kai-ruh" (rhymes with Tyra). I was surprised by that. But I still think all the other spellings get more mispronunciations.

If you look online, most sources claim that Kira and Kyra are derived from the Russian word for "throne" instead of the Irish name meaning something like "little dark one."

Best spelling:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We considered using the original Ciara but nobody seemed to say it right. Apparently, the anglicized version is traditionally Kiera (like Kieran) but Keira is more common (like Keira Knightly). Which way makes more sense to you?

Keira Knightly admitted her parents mispelled her name so I would do Kiera