Comments for FIACHRA:

A name that seems to be admired by many in and outside of Ireland. I even admire it myself. A very strong and powerful name in my opinion.

-- Anonymous User  5/4/2006

Sounds like Viagra to me. :S

-- patsysservant  10/7/2008

I much prefer the French version, Fiacre, but this is an okay name.

-- Anonymous User  1/13/2009

Fiachra does NOT sound like Viagra. It's FEE-akh-ra, just like it says on this site. The "ia" is a diphthong, which means the first part has the long I sound; "ee". The "ch" is pronounced as in loch (one of the few Irish words that has made it to English). This is sometimes a hard sound for English speakers to make (but trust me, you haven't heard the slender r), and some people hate it, because of its throatiness. I pretty sure the "r" is a broad r, which means it's a trilled r, like in Spanish or Italian, which I'm assuming you know how to pronounce. Unless of course it's a slender r, but I'm not that sure how to tell. Perhaps someone will verify it.

-- Undine  3/6/2009

I read somewhere that this name meant "eagle"; wouldn't "raven" be a variant of the stem "bran"?

-- corvina  5/1/2009

No, the meaning is definitely "raven". "Fiach dubh" means "raven" in Irish. Eagle is "iolar", which bears no resemblance to Fiachra. I don't know where you got "bran" from. In Irish, bran means the same as it does in English - the kind of cereal.

-- Anonymous User  7/5/2009

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