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Dara

Girl or boy · Irish

Dara

Say it: DAR-uh

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Meaning

From Mac Dara 'son of oak' (dair 'oak'), the name of a Connemara saint.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Its wave through time

Most used in the 1980s

In the United States

010203018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 1981per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 13,524 babies given this name since 1893
  • At its height in 1981, about 1 in 3,700 girls
  • 194 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

Irish

The family of the name

Other spellings: Darach, Darragh

Famous bearers

  • Saint Mac Dara of Connemara

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Where this comes from

  • Lives of the saints and early Christian martyrologies
  • National birth statistics of European countries source
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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