Girl · Italian, through English
Kara
Say it: KAIR-uh
Meaning
Usually a spelling of Cara, taken from Italian cara 'dear'; it is also a short form of Scandinavian names in Kar-.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A 20th-century American name, most popular in the 1970s to 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 100,539 babies given this name since 1896
- At its height in 1991, about 1 in 572 girls
- 422 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Cara, Karah
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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