Interestingly "Kiran" also sounds somewhat related to a Hebrew name "Keren," קרן which means "ray of light" (it can also mean "horn," by the way, which is why people used to think Jews have horns -- the Bible says Moses had "keren"s coming off him, and it got mis-translated, and.... But I digress!) People sometimes then turn "Keren" into "Karen" as they are nearly indistinguishable in sound (a slightly shorter "eh" in the first vowel in Hebrew
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Socially you can have people address you however you want. Take the name for a test drive and have the people closest to you use it in a normal everyday fashion for a spell to see if it feels so right hearing it that it drowns out the worrying doubt or if it just gets everyone worked up. Ancient root names have some cultural leeway especially if you are not combining them with some pretentious gimmick or fad.
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Take the name for a test drive and have the people closest to you use it in a normal everyday fashion for a spell to see if it feels so right hearing it that it drowns out the worrying doubt or if it just gets everyone worked up. Ancient root names have some cultural leeway especially if you are not combining them with some pretentious gimmick or fad.
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