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?

Claira is just a matter of accent.

Harry is pronounced Hairy by many Americans.

In the UK it's going to be pronounced as you pronounce it.
Same with Harry.

I did once assert on a MN thread that all Claras are pronounced the way OP prefers, because every one I’ve ever met or heard of has been.

I was told off by another poster, who assured me that in her family, Clara had always been pronounced Clare-a, in a tone that implied ‘and always will be’. So there may yet be a handful in the UK.

The names you mention have been pronounced in the way that surprised you for many, many decades. As an example, one of my aunts, born about 1910, was Evelyn, pronounced 'Evv-uh-linn', and all the younger Evelyns I've ever met were pronounced the same. My aunt was known as Evvie, not Eevie.

My mum’ mum (died before I was born) was called Clara pronounced Claire-ah. I know a few young Clara’s pronounced Clar-ah.

@mathanxiety , I said I would have been not that I was. I didn't say they weren't pronounced otherwise. My point being that I only was familiar with the pronunciations I'd actually heard.

I think you’re way over thinking this.
I also think you’re completely wrong about Claire, it’s so much classier than Clara. But you do you.

@Flutterbees , Clare is a classic (saint's name) but

• More than one spelling
• Was over-popular about 50 years ago
• Doesn't sound great in some accents

I much prefer it to Clara, and Clara has 2 spellings anyway.

And I think your wrong. To me Clare and Clara are completely different names. But it's personal taste.

They are as different as Eve and Eva, Anne and Anna, Nicole and Nicola, or Joanne and Joanna. Not very different at all.

US pronunciation is to rhyme with Tara and Lara.
There was a silent US movie star called Clara Bow.

You won't like the Australian pronunciation (some Australians, anyway) - it'll be Claaahhhhhrah with the ahhhh sound like Alf Stewart's flamin' galahhhh.

To me all those names have a different feeling to eachother.

Me too. Clare/Claire is someone my age, Clara sounds cold. Eve nice, don't like Eva.
Ann - like, Anna - like but prefer Ann, Anne - filler middle name.
Nicola - someone my age, Nicole - a bit younger.
Joanne - someone my age, Joanna - classic.

I meant the extra R
The OP wrote that she'd expect it to sound clarr-ruh. So two R sounds. I would expect it to sound "cla [space] ra" with no r tacked onto the first a.

There’s only one way to pronounce Clara surely 🤔

@Girliefriendlikespuppies , Klar-uh and Klair-uh.

There's a Margaret Rutherford film from the 1950s called Aunt Clara and her name in that is pronounced clair-a, but in actual real life I've only ever heard it pronounced as clar-uh. You're overthinking things, OP.

And yes, Maria and Sophia were pronounced with an eye-a in England as I suspect they wanted to differentiate them from 'foreign and Catholic' Spanish Marias and Italian Sofias.

The only Clara I've encountered was my Aunt Clara, which was always pronounced Claire-ah.

Except here Tara and Lara are ‘TAH-ra’ and ‘LAH-ra’.

How would you say Dana or Jana?