What do you think of Clara?

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Just as the thread title says.....what do you reckon? It's our first baby and so I have no idea if it is a popular/common name, as currently don't mingle with folk who have kids in nursery etc.

Clara is lovely.

I'd only pronounce it Klar-ah, strongly dislike Claire-ah.

Not English though.

Love it and would have used it apart from the fact it's virtually identical to my name and I have two boys!

Dame Clara Butt, a once hugely famous singer who died in 1936, was definitely "Clair - ah".

I've heard Sara (without an h) pronounced both Sair-ah and Sah-ra.

Sara prn sah-ra is Welsh

Sara prn sair-ah is the anglicised pronunciation.

NadiaWadia, you are a breath of fresh air. As I said further back on the thread, we have a young Clara pron Claira like her great grandma who was born 1912, and we also know an old lady and a young one called the same ( rural NW England ). Our little one has taken to spelling it Claira at school. It seems odd to me to pronounce it Clar-a in UK.

That's funny, Footle as my great-aunt Clara pronounced 'Clair-a' was also from Yorkshire! I don't think we can be related though, as I think mine was born around 1890.

You chose a lovely name, and how nice to honour your grandma like that. It's a shame your little one feels she is forced to spell it wrong though. Surely if she just tells people they'll remember?

In a similar way, everyone pronounces Aaron 'Arron' now (not sure why), forgetting it always used to be said 'air-on' (in the UK, at least). What bugs me a bit (and I know it's not really important, but still) is how they will all vehemently deny there is any other way to say it. That is all they know, so they are right and they won't entertain any other possibility. I may be a touch overinvested in this.

That's probably because of the Scottish island, so people have used the Aaron spelling but kept the Arran pronunciation.

To be fair, I'm not keen on the 'ai' sound in either of them, but it's just personal preference.

Love it. Have always liked it since I was about 8 and did the story of The Nutcracker at primary school. I have a DD but DH didn't like it when we were choosing names unfortunately.