Will this be pronounced wrong alot

[narnia2025]

I know that in America this name is pronounced differently to over here but when I have mentioned it to people they have asked me which way we would pronounce it which has surprised me as I thought it was exclusively pronounced one way here.

The name is Clara.

I want to pronounce it is clarr-ruh and this is the way I love. But I am genuinely worried people will pronounce it Claira which honestly I don't like at all. What do people think?

You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Maria and Sophia used to be Mar-eye-a and Soph-eye-a too.

Agree - I have only ever heard it pronounced Clara to rhyme with Lara, in the UK. And I'm middle aged! Didn't Heidi (in the book of the same name) have a friend called Clara? Lovely name!

eh?

I genuinely don't.
Why do you say that ?

I also said when, not what as the original post said "used to".

No they don't really but if I add an A on the end they sound very similar.
Para = Parr-ah
Paira = Pair-ah
Out loud I barely hear a difference.
My hearing must be odd.
Seriously though @narnia2025 99% of people will say Clara how you want it.
1% who maybe have a non local to you accent might say it slightly differently.
For example at my daughters primary there was a boy with a name like Billy (not his real name but that type of name). One of the teachers was East European and she would say it as something like "Beeel-eee".
It was just her accent.
Clara is lovely 🙂

You’re overthinking this OP! You live in the SE of the UK. Nobody will mispronounce the name.

Agreed.

Not an issue. It's Clara here. Just don't go to the US if you are bothered they might say it wrong. They say and spell a lot of stuff their own stupid way wrong. I cba to get annoyed.

I would pronounce it Clah rah

@Freshrain , depends how old you are. With Clara and Maria maybe 100+ years ago. Sophia until maybe 1980-ish.
Sophia Gardens in Cardiff and Sophia Coutts-Money are both Soph-eye-a.
Black Maria is Mar-eye-a.

It won’t be mispronounced in the SE of England. It will be universally said the way you would like it to be said. I didn’t even know the other way was a thing. I’ve literally never heard it and my dd1 went to school with a Clara for many years.

edited for a typo

It’s pronounced Clara everywhere. It only sounds like Claira in an American accent in the same way Harry sounds like Hairy.

SE England, long ah in first syllable. Which I think is the way you want to pronounce it.

There will be some people who think that because Clare is pronounced the same as Claire, the same pronunciation can be applied to Clara. They will be wrong. I don’t think there will be many, though.

No, it won't. It's not a commonly mispronounced name. I have never heard Americans pronouncing it 'Claire -a'. Allowing for regional and national accent variations, it's always pronounced 'Clah -ra'.

The only mistake you may get is if someone misreads it or mistranscribes it as 'Clare' but that kind of error can happen with a wide range of names.

As a teen in SE UK I knew a girl a bit older than me who went by “Clair-a” spelled Clara. I thought it was very pretentious even then. Otherwise I have only ever heard it pronounced Clara.

I've heard of it as a Claire -a too, on an eighty something person in the West Midlands so it has been said like this at times

My friends name is Clara, pronounced Claire-a she’s mid 40s and from southern. England

I think it's a pretty safe bet in the UK, the only person I have ever heard to say Claira moved to the UK from the US, watch the current season of Bake Off for reassurance! And even if you end up meeting people from the US they will learn quickly (and it's your daughter who will have the name not you and she might not mind either way if she ends up moving to the US or whatever and you'll still pronounce it the same way 😀)

I knew an old lady years ago whose name was Claira, she also told me there were a couple of Claira's at her school. Long gone now, she probably would be about 120 now, so I wonder if that name was quite popular back then 😀

I had a friend as a teenager about twenty years ago who pronounced it Claira, I was surprised but it means it’s not totally unheard of. North of England.

@NamingNoNames "It used to be Clair-a in the UK. I doubt many will say it that way now."

It was my grandmother's name and she was born in 1890. Nobody has ever pronounced it Claira.

I’d say Clare-ah. But I prefer Clare aanyway!

Same.
Don't worry about it.

My Gran was born 1892, and was a Clara, pronounced Clare-uh

I had an auntie Clara pronounced Claira. She would have been about 100 now. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it since.

I'm south east born and bred and I'd say Clara the way you like. Lovely name!