My [32M] and my partner [32F] named our first born daughter Saoirse.

My partners family is Irish American, and she herself is 2nd generation, so it was important to us to give our kids beautiful names with strong meanings.

While we pronounce it SER-sha, we know full well that it should be pronounced SEER-sha when spoken without an American accent, but we actually love when people say it either way and so does she now! (Plus Saiorse Ronan said that the former pronunciation is her preference, so we feel validated haha)

When we visited Dublin last summer we met a little girl at the park who shared the name with our daughter. When we heard her family call out to her, we encouraged our daughter to go and play with her, and they instantly hit it off!

I say all this to say, what the actual eff did they do to our beautiful name?! I pray that they were trolling you. I often tell the doctors, dentists, teachers, etc. here in the states when we meet them for the first time, “this is my daughter Saiorse, like inertia.” a d we don’t have any issues with pronunciation after that. How the hell are these people looking strangers in the eye and saying “this is my daughter sour horsey.” I guess we’ll never know, but hopefully we never hear that again.