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to me its more like Kee-ah-rah like as in Kiara.
Ciara can't possibly sound like Sierra in my opinion. It makes no grammatical sense.

KEER-a and I like only the original spelling, Ciara.

see-AR-uh

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I'd spell it Kira if I wanted the pronunciation keer-uh. Second choice Keira.

KEER-ah..

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I see it as a form of Keira or Ciaran. I don't know where 'see-AHR-ah' comes from, it looks made up.

I say all of those names as KEE-rah.

With the pronunciation KEER-a, I'd use the spelling Kira, with Keira in 2nd place. They both look nicer than Ciara, imo.

For "KEER-uh" I would spell it Kiera or Ciara. Kira is a completely different name, which I also like. I don't like the Keira spelling because I suspect that spelling is only popular because of Keira Knightley.

KEER-ah being the proper way as it is an Irish name (see-AIR-ah is very wrong and even kee-AH-rah is pushing it).

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I would spell it Ciara though Keira doesn't bother me.

SEE-air-ah, like the singer.

Ciara=SEE-air-uh. Keira=KEER-uh.

kee-AR-uh.

Ciara- see-AIR-uh
Keira- key-AIR-uh
Kira- KEER-uh

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If you want the keer-uh pronunciation you're best bet would be Kira or Kyra.

See-Air-a

KEER-uh

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I only like it spelled Ciara or Kira.

It depends. If I'm talking about the singer, I would pronounce it see-AIR-ah, similar to Sierra. But if I'm talking about someone else, I would use kee-AIR-ah. Not really sure why this is. o_O

I pronounce Ciara as KEER-ah, but especially in North America, that won't happen very often. People here tend to say KEY-ar-ah, which I guess is just as legiitimate but Chiara is there for that, or worse SEE-air-ah! Sierra?

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If you want KEER-ah, I'd go with either Keira (Keira Knightly has made it quite clear) or Kiera (i before e except after c) (I prefer the latter) and maybe Kyra because of Kyra Sedgwick.

Kira, I would say Kee-are-uh or Ciara and Kee=air-uh or Keira.

My first instinct is to pronounce it like Chiara, the Italian form of Claire-- kee-AHR-uh, but I suppose based on its roots it ought to be pronounced KEER-uh.

Ciara, Kira and Keira are all KI-ruh to me. Though I did once know a Kiara that was ki-ah-ruh, so Ciara would be more susceptible to that (though K would stop the 's' pronounciation that C lends itself to). I once knew a Kirra. Kirra is suppose to reflect some word (possibly boomerang) from some Australian Aboriginal language. There's also Kiera.

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I like Kirra, just because it's not run of the mill and is pronounced as ki-ruh too.

Ciara is another spelling of Sierra (see-AIR-uh) to me (though I much prefer Sierra)...
If I was going for the KEER-uh prn, I'd go with Kira or Keira.

I pronounce Kira KEER-ruh and Keira kee-ARE-uh or kee-AIR-uh. I've always pronounced Ciara see-AIR-uh because of the Ci.

I pronounce it KEER-ah and I would spell it Ciara.

I prn it KEE-ar-uh, almost like Kiera but with the accent at the beginning and not really mushed together. I usually picture Kiera as Ciara said quickly.

I pronounce it KEER-a, and I'd spell it Ciara.

I am Irish so I say KEER-ah and spell it Ciara.

I would say KEE-rah: and I'd spell it Keira (I think that would also eliminate pron. confusion). Kyra would fit best with Hayley and Skye I think. Ciara is also okay, but I like Kira least.

Kee-ar-a is how I would say it so I would use Keira or Kira to get the pronounciation you want.

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ETA: Just looked up Ciara in the database and both Kee-ra and Kee-ar-a are used so I guess you can use Ciara too.

This message was edited 6/14/2008, 4:35 AM

I say Keira & Kira as keer-uh but Ciara makes me want to say see-air-uh as thats how the singer says it :) but I know a girl named Ciara & she pronounces it like Keira/Kira.
I'd spell it Keira.