Name: Mara
Gender: Unisex (Male and Female)
Usage: Mara, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a unisex (male and female) name.
People having the name Mara are in general originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Mara is: Bitter, Bitter sea.
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Numerology of the first name Mara: 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 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Mara is ranked on the 1,777th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 242700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.004% of the population. The name Mara has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
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History and Origin
Mara is an Irish: shortened form of O’Mara; Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal names Márkus (Hungarian form of Marcus or Mark) or Márton (Hungarian form of Martin), or from a short form of the old ecclesiastical name Marcel; and Czech (Mára): from a pet form of the personal name Marek or Martin.
Mara as a female first name is pronounced MAHR-ah most of the time, but can be pronounced as rhyming with Sarah in Jewish-American and Southern United States culture. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Mara is "bitter" which carries the implication "strength". Biblical: Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth, claimed the name Mara as an expression of grief after the deaths of her husband and sons. It also means "Lady" in Aramaic, because Mar means "Lord", and is a title of bishops in the Syriac Christian church. It is also the name of a bitter lake in the Bible, and a title of the Kabbalistic sephira Binah. Marah, an alternate spelling, means joy in Arabic and can be a unisex name. (Ar:مرح)
May also be used as a Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek or Eastern European variant of Mary, Marianna, Maria, Marzanna and as a short form of Tamara. It is a variant of Maura, an Anglicization of the Irish name Máire, the Irish name of Mary, or the Scottish name Moira. It can also be a feminine version of Mauro, meaning a dark-skinned person. In Hindu, and Southeast Asian Buddhist cultures, it is etymologically related to the Sanskrit terms Mala (rosary), Mallika (jasmine) or Mayura (peacock) and is a unisex name or a surname, etymologically unrelated to anything demonic in Sino-Tibetan and modern Indic languages because the letters R and L are sometimes conflated. It is a popular name in Latin America and the United States, for it has been in the top 1000 in the United States since 1950.
English: of biblical origin, from Hebrew Mara ‘bitter’, a name referred to by Naomi when she went back to Bethlehem because of the famine in the land of Moab and the deaths of her husband and two sons: ‘call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me’ (Ruth 1: 20).
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