Son's name :o)

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My son's name didn't exist on the baby name finder here so i added it yesterday and it appears as the name of the day today !!

We have sort of made it up but not really.....I liked Keir or Kerr, OH liked Ciaran. Ciaran means the little dark one and we didn't think he would be little so we took the "an" bit which is the "little" bit and kept the Ciar - pronounced exactly the same way as Keir so everybody happy. :o)

I like it, especially the unusual spelling

not inventing a prejudice at all edith, at least not from you!
just wondering why it would matter if the op had been clearer that's all, the only thing that it would have changed was that people would have known it was an old name not a made up name.

why would that make a difference if there is no prejudice?

I mentioned it because I thought some of the comments which followed avoidable, and saw it as a misunderstanding.

I said precisely nothing about whether they were acceptable, and I find your insinuation that I condone nastiness to new mothers when they announce a name to be offensive.

Oh hell! Can I apologise in advance, thisisyesterday? I've overreacted to your post and I am sorry for being tetchy.

I think we were both coming at the same thing from different angles, and I read your posts in haste and took it far too personally.

And apologies to OP too, for the diversion to your thread.

It's a lovely name

Edith, don't be silly :) it's the internet! goes without saying that you just can't read context/tone. I've misread what people are saying on here tons of times

you're right, think we're on the same wavelength :)

It is not made up, I have a Ciar in my family
SOME PEOPLE ARE SO RUDE

OP I think it is a lovely name, I have always liked the Keir version as there is a rather good looking news reporter called Keir Simmons

Just curious, have you found that people have not known initially how to pronounce it, or tend to pronounce it wrongly because it is unusual? This is one of my considerations as I try and come up for names for DS2.

It depends LBR, we are scottish and live in scotland so maybe not as much as you would otherwise. If you are sitting waiting at the doctors and someone comes out looking at the folder and looking round the room before attempting to speak, you pretty much know that it's us they are looking for. Occasionally they assume that it's Ciara which seems to be the more common spelling than Keira for the girls version of the name - he likes his hair a bit longer like all the kids do at the moment and he has a very sweet face - maybe when he hits puberty and gets a more "manly" face that will stop too. All in, he likes his name, his middle name is Alastair so if he wanted to use that it wouldn't bother me but he'll always be Ciar to me.

DidYouSmashHerShireHorses - feel free to nick away - we could do with a few more - there have only been about half a dozen babies in scotland named that since my son was born in 2001. My Ciar is beautiful, sweet, incredibly bright and very well behaved (though a bit of a door slammer!!) and he makes me proud to be his Mum every single day.

And thank you everyone for your comments.

Ciar is lovely. Congratulations

I like Ciar. It's very handsome and certainly nicer than Keir.

I also think what Lisaro said was rude and unnecessary. And a bit weird.