Name: Cara
Gender: Female
Usage: Cara, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Cara are in general originating from Dominican Republic, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Cara across the world, see Cherie.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Cara is: Friend.
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Numerology of the first name Cara: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Cara is ranked on the 1,010th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 525100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.008% of the population. The name Cara has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Cara for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Cara is 12 November.
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History and Origin
Cara is a female given name of Latin and Irish origin. It has been frequently used mostly in recent times, especially in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Cara means friend in Irish. Cara also means beloved in Latin and the names Carina, Cherie and Cheryl derive from it.
Kara, the alternative spelling, is from the Cornish word, meaning love. This is likely cognate to the popular Welsh girls' name Carys.
The name is also that of an island in the Inner Hebrides island group, Scotland; Cara Island lying just off the southern tip of the Isle of Gigha.
In Turkey the word Kara means "dark", which may or may not be related to the Gaelic Ciara of the same meaning.
English: 20th-century coinage, from the Italian term of endearment cara ‘beloved’ or the Irish Gaelic vocabulary word cara friend. This is not normally used as a given name in Italy, where such innovations are held in check by the hostility of the Roman Catholic Church to baptismal names that have not been borne by saints.
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