Clara?

[FlyingMonkeys]

Dd is currently 10wks ( age 20 so I'm slightly less than enthused but happy for her non the less). She has a current track record for horrific names (for pets!), but I feel like I could get behind this for a girl... thoughts please?

We're Irish, but pronounce it Clar-a. My girl is 8 now.

Love it.

It's lovely.

My DD is called Clara. It’s a beautiful name😊

Cracking name.

It's the name of the girl in the ballet the nutcracker - v classy in my opinion!

Love it

I'm a Claire-a. Sorry about your toes 😂

blueskies
'I've never heard it pronounced Claire-a though, that's horrible and makes my toes squirm. ' Yes that is a ridiculous and OTT comment. What on earth is 'horrible' about it? It sounds more like Claire/Clare. Do you also hate the name Claire? And the name Sarah which has the same vowel sound?

More reasonably, I don't 'hate' the clah-ra pronunciation, as I also like Lara etc, I just prefer the Claira way. I remember my great aunt (who was born, also over 100 years ago, in England when it was the standard pronunciation, Clara in the Heidi books was German and actually in the original books spelt Klara, spelling was anglicised in later editions I think) , and am irritated at the ignorant comments you always get. Same kind of thing happens with Aaron, people start denying it was ever pronounced other than 'aron'. They seem proud of their ignorance. Same thing will happen with Alicia I suspect.

It's beautiful. I would have loved it if I had a girl (plus I went to see the Nutcracker yesterday so I was thinking only then what a lovely name it was)

This was my favorite girl’s name - never got to use it as ended up having 2 boys 😀

Beautiful, classic and not too many of them around.

Claire is fine, Sarah is fine, obviously both a bit dated at the moment as typically 70s names. Claire-a is like saying Freda should be pronounced Fred-a instead of Free-da. Clara isn't Claire with an a on the end, just like Sarah isn't Sara- a.

I know a few babies called Clara is quite popular at the min

Blueskies'
no it isn't 'like saying Freda should be pronounced Fred-a'. That would be a made up pronunciation. With Clara there are at least two pronunciations, clair-a is the old English one. Why is this so hard to understand? Some names have more than one pronunciation, each equally valid. Like 'Eva' is pronounced eev-a in English speaking countries, but the same as 'Ava' in Spanish speaking countries. And I hate to break it to you, but 'Sara' can either be pronounced 'Sah-ra' or Saira the same as Sarah. But you've probably never heard of that either.

picklemethis that is interesting, I'm so out of the TV character loop!

I like it. It is getting more popular now, it was in the top 100 baby names last year.

Thanks folks I'll feed all that back to her (I did check it was okay to poll the name online). It's interesting the pronunciation sparked a bit of a debate (slightly controversial perhaps? 🙄).