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Pronounced
SHEER-ah.
I think it's so pretty. It's cute enough for a little girl but sophisticated enough for a young lady.

My first time hearing about such a lovely name...it sounds like the name of a heroine in a book, but also in real life. :)

Shari and Shira are anagrams of each other; they contain the same letters.

Personal experiences with the name Shira

From the Hebrew for singing/melody/poem.

In Japan the word Shira or Shiro means white. There are some cities and coastal beaches with the name.

Nicknames for Shira

Shirshir, Shiroosh, Shampy, Shirale

Meanings and history of the name Shira

Shira is of Hebrew origin and means "song."

Famous real-life people named Shira

Shira in song, story & screen

In Japan- the name of the Grimm's famous "Snow White" is Shirahime.白姫, pronounced she-ra-he-meh in Japanese, means translated ‘White Princess’.The Kanji characters for white and princess suggest ‘purity’ and ‘goodness’ – both important ideals.

There is a Japanese manga, created by Clamp, called 白姫抄 (she-rahe-meh-shoh), which is a modern variation of the Japanese tale 雪女 (you-ki-on-na = snow woman). The drawings in that manga have a rare subtlety.

spelled differently but pronounced the same, there was the famous 1980's cartoon hero- Shera Princess of Power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She-Ra:_Princess_of_Power

"Shira" (book), a famous novel by Israeli Nobel Prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon

another fictional character on tv: Shira Huntzberger, mother of Rory Gilmore's boyfriend Logan Huntzberger on the WB's "Gilmore Girls"