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lunavix · 11/08/2006 22:04

kian/cian and niamh?

to the best of my knowledge it's kee-an
and neem?

Is this right?

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laughalot · 17/02/2008 13:54

I have a aidan and people always call him haydan

nickeldime · 17/07/2008 11:00

Ciara is pronounced with the 'K-' sound by the Irish, while other English speakers sometimes pronounce it with the softer 'S-' sound. The Irish don't use the soft 'S-' sound. The various pronunciations are SiyEHRah, KIY-AHRAH, or KIY-RAH. Pronounce Ciara

Ellica · 17/07/2008 19:22

Kian is def Kee an
i'm australian and its NOT popular at all over there and when my mum saw it in a baby name book she read it at Keen but my dad said no kee an.
so in the end my mum went with kehan and thats how my brother came about his name
but he still has explain it be saying like Ian but with a K in the front i love it though, he was supposed to be a girl and was to be called Inara, (funnily enough my sister decided to call her little girl that!)

SJisontheway · 17/07/2008 19:50

That website from the pronounce Ciara link is a load of shite. As other posters have said, it should be pronounce like keira Knightley. The other abominations are mispronounciations and just wrong. Just like pronouncing Niamh Niema is just wrong. Daft americans. You can't take an ancient and classic name and come up with your own pronounciation. Well I guess you can but it's stoopid. And just cos some of these grow in popularity it doesn't make them right! Rant Over

NL3 · 17/07/2008 20:02

we're an anglo-irish family and we have a
Daragh (Da-ra), Cian (Kee-an), and Cillian (kill-y-an), yes the children get to repeat and re-spell their names ad nauseum, but funny enough they really like being the only children with those names.

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