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The irish/gaelic pronounciation is Kee-ruh. In the US it´s mostly pronounced wrong as Key-air-uh or even Cee-air-uh (like Sierra).

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If you like the pronounciation Key-are-uh you should probably use Chiara to avoid confusions.

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I personally love the name Ciara! But because of the pronounciation and spelling confusions I would spell it Keira.

I heard it before and thought it was quite lovely. It was pronounced Key-Are-uh. I do think that it may cause some confusion on spelling and pronunciation

I like it a lot.

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it is KEE ar-a.

I've always heard it pron. SEE-air-uh. Perosnally I don't like the name b/c of horrible associations. I'd think Kiera would be pron. Key-are-uh or Key-air-uh. But I've also heard/seen it pron keer-uh, so who knows.

This message was edited 12/12/2004, 2:26 PM

I love it with this pronunciation, and I love the Italian Chiara too, I think they're pronunced the same.

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Eva

I thought this one was pron. (see are uh). I'd sp. (key are uh) Kiara. I also like Kierra (key air uh), Tiara (tea are uh), Teaira/Tierra (tea air uh)

I thinks its pretty prn. Cee-are-ah...

The correct pronuncation is KEER-a. I love the name, whether as Ciara, Kiera or Keara. For the kee-AHR-a pronunciation, I really love Chiara :-)

The correct pronounciation is Keer-ah. Like Keira Knightley. Keira is just an anglicisation Ciara. The male version is Ciaran, anglicised as Kieran.
I love it too, but spelt Keira.

I don't care for it. I think of a tiara.