[name_m]Hi[/name_m] everyone!
I’ve been rewriting my favourites list recently, and I came across the Irish name [name_f]Ciara[/name_f]
I adore it, for a lot of reasons:
I’m part-Irish myself and would love to honour that in a name.
The basic reason that my name also begins with a ‘C’ due to an Irish spelling, despite the fact mine isn’t pronounced as a hard ‘C’.
I think it looks beautiful written down.
I’ve known a lot of lovely people with the name, or something similar, so I have a lot good associations with it
My only problem with it is finding a perfect middle name! At the moment I’ve paired it with [name_f]Noelle[/name_f], and I like that, but I don’t love it the way I love [name_f]Alba[/name_f] [name_f]Juliet[/name_f] and [name_f]Margot[/name_f] [name_f]Anneliese[/name_f]. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions?
This is my current favourites list, but I find girls’ names much harder than boys, so I am open to any suggestions for names that aren’t here:
- [name_f]Alba[/name_f]
- [name_f]Hazel[/name_f]
- [name_f]Annaliese[/name_f]
- [name_f]Annika[/name_f]
- [name_f]Maisie[/name_f]
- [name_f]Margot[/name_f]
- [name_f]Lyra[/name_f]
- [name_f]Juliet[/name_f]
- [name_f]Elowen[/name_f]
- [name_f]Cassia[/name_f] ([name_u]Cass[/name_u]-ee-ah)
- [name_f]Sylvie[/name_f]
- [name_f]Elodie[/name_f]
- [name_f]Bianca[/name_f]
- [name_f]Lucille[/name_f]
- [name_f]Calliope[/name_f]
- [name_u]Marley[/name_u]
- [name_f]Camille[/name_f]
- [name_f]Noelle[/name_f]
- [name_f]Isla[/name_f]
I know there are a lot of ways to pronounce [name_f]Ciara[/name_f] (See-ahra/[name_u]Sierra[/name_u]/[name_f]Kiera[/name_f]) but I pronounce it [name_f]Kia[/name_f]-rah (similar to [name_f]Kira[/name_f])
Thanks for your help!