The Valonqar prophecy appears in the fourth book, but we are introduced to the Maegi annoucing it before, in the third one.
Gawen is a good man, but his wife is Sybell Spicer. He should never have wed her. The Westerlings always did have more honor than sense. Lady Sybell’s grandfather was a trader in saffron and pepper, almost as lowborn as that smuggler Stannis keeps. And the grandmother was some woman he’d brought back from the east. A frightening old crone, supposed to be a priestess. Maegi, they called her. No one could pronounce her real name. Half of Lannisport used to go to her for cures and love potions and the like.” He shrugged. “She’s long dead, to be sure. And Jeyne seemed a sweet child, I’ll grant you, though I only saw her once. But with such doubtful blood . . .”
“Maegi, they called her. No one could pronounce her real name”
Cersei didn’t understand it either.
“I don’t recall the woman’s name. Something long and eastern and outlandish. The smallfolk used to call her Maggy.”
“Is that how you say it?” (Cersei-VIII)
So, there is a chance she didn't understand the word the Maegi told her in High Valryian. Could it be she never said Valonqar but that, later in life, Cersei heard the word, or tried to remember it, and settle on this one?
It would also align perfectly with the self-fulfilling prophecy theory : with her hatred and terrible toward her brother, she will push Tyrion to be the one to kill her (directly or indirectly).
And of course, let’s not forget that Tyrion thinks of murdering his sister within the same chapter that the first Maegi mention (ASoS, Tyrion-III)
My lords, grant me the men, and I will sort out Lysa Arryn.” He could think of nothing he would enjoy more, except perhaps strangling Cersei.
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