Kirsten pronunciation

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Anonymous wrote:The ones I know who pronounce it Keer are all spelled Keirsten

That’s an even weirder spelling. I would thing this was like Care-sten.

Either PP typed it wrong or is just wrong. Keirsten would be K-eye-rsten.

The problem is the Keir so out there it can be hard to know what the parents were going for. Kir, or Kier is much more expected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please do not use this name. While pretty names, Kirsten, Kristen, and Kiersten get mixed up CONSTANTLY. Throw in Kiera and Kyra and it's just really annoying.

If you do choose this name, accept that your daughter will likely never be able to get people to consistently pronounce it the same way. Forget about the "right" way to pronounce -- she will just not be able to get people to pronounce it the same way.

I’m a Kristin and I don’t get called Kirsten. The people who botch the pronunciation call me Christian.

Kirsten/Kiersten are the more uncommon names so they are much more likely to be mispronounced as Kristen/Kristen than the other way around. I would actually worry a bit less about people mispronouncing Kristen/Kristin than Kirsten. I think Kirsten is particularly problematic because not only is there not agreement on how to pronounced the first syllable vowel, but it also gets mistaken for Kristen a lot. It's just one of those names that people always mix up. I feel similarly about the names Laura/Lauren (stable differences in how the vowels are pronounced -- if you use the name you have to let this go) and Johanna/Joanna/Joanne (get mixed up and also different people pronounce the vowels differently, and some with the "h" pronounce the h and others treat it as silent).

I like names where there is a general consensus on how they are pronounced in your primary language and that are not commonly confused with other names.

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My go-to pronunciation is Keer.

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We had friends in the 80s who named DD Kirsten and pronounced it Shirshzten or something. We privately referred to her as Szechwan.

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Anonymous wrote:Never put it past people to demand a specific pronunciation. I know a ME-gan who insists on that pronunciation and not the more typical Meh-gan. Nobody pronounces it ME-gan without being told.

This drives me nuts. If you have a particular pronunciation, it's okay, but you need to be okay with people using the more common pronunciation. You can force family and close friends to use the "correct" pronunciation, but it's just unreasonable to assume every person who interacts with you is going to remember and be careful to use your special pronunciation. People don't want to think that hard. They are going to call you Meh-gan and you will need to get over it.

Whenever someone tells me "I love this name but I really dislike this common pronunciation/nickname for it" I'm like please, I beg of you, don't use this name and create a problem that doesn't need to exist.

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Everyone I've known with that name was pronounced Keersten or never corrected people who called them that. Most people called them Kristen anyway.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The ones I know who pronounce it Keer are all spelled Keirsten

That’s an even weirder spelling. I would thing this was like Care-sten.

Either PP typed it wrong or is just wrong. Keirsten would be K-eye-rsten.

The problem is the Keir so out there it can be hard to know what the parents were going for. Kir, or Kier is much more expected.

If I saw Keirsten I would go straight to Keer-sten because of Keir Starmer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ones I know who pronounce it Keer are all spelled Keirsten

That’s an even weirder spelling. I would thing this was like Care-sten.

Either PP typed it wrong or is just wrong. Keirsten would be K-eye-rsten.

The problem is the Keir so out there it can be hard to know what the parents were going for. Kir, or Kier is much more expected.

If I saw Keirsten I would go straight to Keer-sten because of Keir Starmer.

Your average person has no idea who that is, the average person that is. The person who knows who he is also knows how to pronounce Kirsten without an odd spelling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Never put it past people to demand a specific pronunciation. I know a ME-gan who insists on that pronunciation and not the more typical Meh-gan. Nobody pronounces it ME-gan without being told.

This drives me nuts. If you have a particular pronunciation, it's okay, but you need to be okay with people using the more common pronunciation. You can force family and close friends to use the "correct" pronunciation, but it's just unreasonable to assume every person who interacts with you is going to remember and be careful to use your special pronunciation. People don't want to think that hard. They are going to call you Meh-gan and you will need to get over it.

Whenever someone tells me "I love this name but I really dislike this common pronunciation/nickname for it" I'm like please, I beg of you, don't use this name and create a problem that doesn't need to exist.

This. My kids have easy names for this reason.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think I’ve ever met someone with the spelling Kiersten, but have met lots of Kirstens with both pronunciations.

The most famous Kirsten I can think of is Kirsten Dunst, who says Keersten.

The other famous Kirsten I can think of is Gillibrand, who also says Keersten.

If you use this name, I think you need to be pretty relaxed about how people say it. Think of it as an accent difference and let it go.

I am a Kirsten (KEERstan) and the bolded is true. I have learned to answer to pretty much any variant and I stopped trying to correct people in fifth grade when my teacher with a strong Texas accent couldn't or wouldn't pronounce it correctly.

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Keer