i cannot be the only person but CLAIR-ah as a pronunciation for [name_f]Clara[/name_f] makes absolutely no sense to me. iāve never heard it and i canāt even say it without it sounding super
weird??
CLAH-rah is the only one i can say 
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Itās similar to Claire, so I suppose thatās why Americans and Canadians say it like āKLAIR-uh.ā Historically, Clara is closely related to Claire too. The most famous Clara with that pronunciation I can think of is Clara Bow, the āIt Girlā in Silent Era, Hollywood movies.
Simply, it boils down to just the fact that there are different accents ā like in the UK, a lot of names ending in āaā are said like āerā because of the prevalence of a non-rhotic accent. It makes life interesting!
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i feel the opposite wat (im american btw). CLAH-rah is very hard for me to say and sounds very unnatural coming out of my mouth
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Funnily enough Iāve known only one [name_f]Clara[/name_f] who was American and used the KLAH-rah pronunciation (or had given up on constantly correcting Scottish people and embraced it, I guess I canāt know for sureā¦)
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idk how hot of a hot take this is but ima say it anyway bc i feel strongly about it lmao
giving your kid a name that doesnāt have an intuitive pronounciation/has an incorrect intuitive pronounciation is not a problem. as a person whose irl name is always, always butchered, correcting the pronounciation of your name or your childās name is a total non-issue. being worried that it will be pronounced incorrectly is absolutely not a reason that you need to not use a name. ive had my name pronounced correctly on the first try maybe two or three times in my life and never once have i wished i had an easier-to-pronounce name
but the point is, ofc if you really want āeasy to pronounceā to be a quality of your childās name, then use a name with an intuitive pronounciationā but if youre on the fence about using a name bc you think it will be pronounced incorrectly, itās not a big deal. the vast majority of people will correct themselves after one or two corrections from you
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I just realized today how much I dislike the name Ashā¦ it just reminds me of the remains of a fire.
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[name_f]Clarabelle[/name_f] would be really cute if it wasnāt a name for a cow
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hi, i know you mean no harm from this, but we try to avoid phrasings like this on nameberry!! especially since this is regarding a real child
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GĀ„psy should not be used as a name
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[name_f]Non[/name_f] Pagans using the name [name_u]Solstice[/name_u] is the same as non Christians using the name [name_u]Christmas[/name_u]. Iām not gonna tell anyone that they canāt, but it is peculiar.
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I might be missing something, but I consider solstice an astronomy term? Iām aware the solstices are celebrated in [name_m]Pagan[/name_m] tradition but they occur in nature regardless of any human belief, whereas [name_u]Christmas[/name_u] is purely religious?
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I agree with @eagleeyes, a solstice is something every human experiences.
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Yes, it does happen to everyone. However, Pagans celebrate the summer and winter solstices as christians celebrate christmas. And considering that our holiday was appropriated to become christmas, and that pagans were persecuted for their beliefs and traditions, itās just peculiar to me.
Like I said, Iām not going to tell anyone that they canāt use it, or that they shouldnāt use it. Iām not even saying that it ābelongsā to us, because the term certainly doesnāt. But I gotta say, itās an interesting experience to be a life long pagan, to have celebrated the solstices and equinoxes every year, to have these names on my list for many years, along with the names of some other pagan holidays, and then to see christians, other religious folks, and people who are not religious at all, or who even have a disdain for religion or belief in much of anything except physics, perhaps, using the name Solstice. Thatās all Iām saying.
Agree. Using that name turns me off a lot and I feel uncomfortable seeing it around because it is a slur in my ears 0_0
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I named one of my chickens it when I was 8 not knowing it was a slur. I call her [name_f]Gigi[/name_f] now but itās really horrible that people use it as a name if they know the meaning. Especially since the child will have to live with it for the rest of their life
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There are some exceptions, but I usually donāt like names ending in -us, they always sound medical to me (that or too official-sounding for a modern person, like Titus). Weirdly, I donāt mind ones that end in -as or -is most of the time.
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[name_f]My[/name_f] hot take of the day: I just donāt get the hype around [name_f]Alice[/name_f]! Itās a fine name I guess, but people here seem to go crazy for it when there are so many other (in my opinion) better names that fit the same vibe (Katharine and Elisabeth!? so sweet and timeless!). I also find it hard to look past the fact that āliceā is in the name 
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[name_f]My[/name_f] hot take is that K names are bad when the name can also be a C. I think itās the Kardashians that most likely ruined it for meā¦ and of course the K names are great, especially if they are cultural like perhaps [name_f]Klara[/name_f] and Karolinaā¦ they just look strange to me. 
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i think this is going to a piping hot take, but-
i have never understood the appeal of the name shepherd and i never will. i know that so many people here love it and seem to have personal connections to it, but it just doesnātā¦seem like a name (??) to me.
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Same hereā¦ but Iām warming up to it 
seeing how much some people here love it has made me appreciate it a bit more!
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