Name: Tara
Gender: Female
Usage: Tara, of scottish-gaelic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Tara are in general originating from Belgium, Canada, India, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Tara is: Crag, Tower.
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Numerology of the first name Tara: 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 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Tara is ranked on the 304th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 2035900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.028% of the population. The name Tara 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 Tara for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Tara is a given name with multiple meanings in different cultures.
It is also sometimes a nickname for Tamara, as an alternative to Tammy. In the Royal Engineers it is a common for a Sergeant Major to be referred to as Tara, after the wrestler who was a Sergeant Major and served in Burma during World War II, although the practice is now dying out.
The name is popular in Ireland and Australia. It was popular in the United States during the 1970s, probably due to Tara being the name of the O'Hara's plantation in the 1939 movie Gone with the Wind, and the characters Tara King in the 1960s British television The Avengers and Tara Martin on the American soap opera All My Children in the early 1970s. In Ireland, from 2000–2005 it ranked between the 30th and 40th most popular girl's name.
Since 1968 the name Tara is currently accepted as being exclusively a female name in Western societies, although there have been men who carried the name (such as Tara Browne). It is also often considered a female name in the east, due to its connection to several goddesses. For instance, Tara is a female Buddha in Buddhism and a goddess in Hinduism. Additionally, "Tara" is also a common male or female name meaning "star".
English: from the name (meaning ‘hill’) of a place in Meath, seat of the high kings of Ireland. It has been used as a female given name in America since around 1940, probably as a result of the success of the film Gone with the Wind, in which the estate of this name has great emotional significance. In Britain it was not much used before the 1960s, and its popularity since then seems to be the result of its use for the character Tara King in the television series The Avengers.
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