[name_m]Hi[/name_m]!!!
I live in Australia, so our accent is very different from [name_u]America[/name_u] and other countries, which makes it hard when choosing a name, mostly because of pronunciation. I am IN [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] with [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f] ( Seer-sha ) but it is very difficult to pronounce in an Australian accent, especially the ‘r’. But I love it so much and I really want to use it. I would especially love some advice from any aussie’s out there. What do you all think??
[name_m]Hi[/name_m]! Aussie here. I think you would get almost everyone mispronouncing it, unfortunately… I had no idea how to pronounce [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f] until nameberry, and I’m a name-nerd teacher used to a big variety of names. I also still have to double check how to spell it. Having said that, you can’t necessarily NOT use it… but be aware that the correct pronunciations first off will be a big rarity, if at all. Some people here will never get how to pronounce it. You just have to decide how much that bothers you 
[name_m]Even[/name_m] as someone who loves interesting and unique names, the pronunciation of [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f] does my head in! It looks so pretty, but I can never remember how to say it.
I do think a lot of Aussies would struggle to say it, but then there are a lot of names that can be hard to pronounce. I guess it comes down to how big of a problem this is for you - if you are comfortable knowing that you will have to answer the question “how do you say that?” then go for it, but if that idea annoys you and makes you unhappy then may chose a different name. There a many other Irish/Gaelic names that are either more familiar to most people or are easier to say.
I think the name is recognisable enough as an Irish name that people know the pronounciation would be different to what they think. I personally love this name, and I am Aussie. My husband is Irish and has a sister with this name who lives in Australia too. She occasionally has the odd stranger mispronounce her name but once she meets someone once and let’s them know how to say it she doesn’t have a problem. There other sister has more people mispronounce her name ([name_f]Sian[/name_f]) than [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f].
I’m Australian and while I know how to say [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f] (but I would automatically use the other pronunciation of sair-sha) most people wouldn’t but Australia has a pretty large Irish minority (about 10.4% of the population) so there would be many people who could say it. The R problem should really be one since most people I know pronounce r’s in the middle of a word correctly it’s just at the end it would be an issue.
Why don’t you use Sairsha? I think altering the spelling is fine. Purists will adamantly disagree, but most every single word we use in this day and age has been 'altered’from the original utterance in some way or another. I, too, [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] Seersha (and [name_f]Sorcha[/name_f]) or Sairsha (I prefer the latter) and once you introduce her and say it a few times it will be fine! There are so very many unusual names nowadays very few people will bat an eye!