Is it unfair to call my baby Saoirse?

[Myname15]

Hi everyone
I'm 21 weeks pregnant with my first child. Recently found out that we're having a girl. My favourite girls name is Saoirse (pronounced sir-sha). I love the meaning (liberty) and have loved the name since i was a kid. The name's Gaelic, dp is Irish as is half my family, but I am really struggling with whether or not it's unfair to land my daughter to be with that spelling :s.
What does everyone think?

Saoirse is NOT pronounced "sir"sha. This is an egregious mispronunciation of a beloved and historically significant name. I don't care how your American actress thinks it's pronounced. She is incorrect and has admitted it more than once.

In Irish Gaelic, "aoi" is pronounced with a long "ee" sound. The name is SEER-sha. There is no alternative pronunciation outside of local accents that make it sound slightly different. Someone from New York may apply an accent to certain words but that does not mean the pronunciation of said words have changed.

Just as the English name "Rose" only has one pronunciation, so does Saoirse. Stop perpetuating the misinformation.

That's the only cruel thing about it. If you're going to use it, say it right. Seer-sha. Seer rhymes with deer, not sir. Seer-sha.

Saoir is not pronounced Seer.

@Goonerz aoi most certainly is the "ee" sound.

no

@Goonerz aoi is definitely the ee sound

How is it pronounced then @Goonerz ? Thread is from 2015

aoife= ee-fa
saoirse = seer-sha

(by and large and allowing for regional accent differences etc.)

But yes, thread is from 2015 and Saoirse is probably busy right now listening to Taylor Swift and telling her little brother to stop annoying her.

@ArsenicInTheAppleTart , Many uk accents say seer as see-uh.
I'd say Saoirse as SeeRsha, but I think many would say See-uh-sha or Sirsha

It's lovely and it's absolutely fine to call a baby it but I thought the pronounciation was "sor-sha" not "sir-sha"?

@wherethewildthingsgo
This is a zombie thread, but for the record the pronunciation of Saoirse is more like seer-sha as pp have said (where seer is said like sear, not as see-er, one who foresees the future 😅 )
Anyway, there's a link to the pronunciation below.
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/saoirse

Some Irish people do say the first syllable more like Sair, or like a cross between Seer and Sair if that makes any sense, but it's not Sor or Sir anyway.

Also, as you can probably hear from the link, the second syllable doesn't have a strong ah sound at the end. It's not like the sound in Diana. It's more Seer-sheh.
I wrote Seer-sha in my previous comment because I was afraid if I wrote Seer-she people might think of the sound in she/he. But I should have said Seer-sheh really!