Cara
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Cara Origin and Meaning
The name Cara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dear; friend; face".
Cara is a simple, sweet, Italian endearment that enjoyed its greatest popularity from the 1970s through the 1990s, reaching a high of Number 189 in 1977. Despite the rising celebrity of English model/actress Cara Delevingne, who played Enchantress in Suicide Squad, Cara dropped off the Top 1000 in the US in 2020, perhaps because it sounds too close to the dreaded Karen.
I Cara remains a highly popular choice in Ireland, perhaps used as an Anglicized form of the Irish Ciara or Ceara. the Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited, the Cara character is French.
Damon Wayans took the endearment aspect even further when he named his now-grown daughter Cara Mia.
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# 908 in the US
Cara Rank in US Top 1000
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Famous People Named Cara
- Cara Jocelyn DelevingneEnglish model and actress
- Cara JenkinsEnglish actress
- Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat)American actress
- Cara BlackZimbabwean tennis player
- Cara SeymourEnglish actress
- Cara Elizabeth DillonIrish singer
- Cara LockwoodAmerican novelist
- Cara PifkoCanadian actress
- Cara LuftCanadian singer,songwriter
- Cara Hain WakelinCanadian model and actress
- Cara ZavaletaAmerican model and actress
- Cara Elizabeth DeLiziaAmerican actress
- Cara ReadleWelsh actress
- Cara Renee GorgesMiss Kansas USA 2007
- Cara Elizabeth QuiciAmerican singer,songwriter
- Cara BuonoAmerican actress
- Cara Connolly (b. 1974)daughter of comedian Billy Connolly
- Cara Mia Dianne Wayans (b. 1987)daughter of actor/comedian Damon Wayans
- Cara Rose (b. 1989)daughter of baseball player Pete Rose
- Cara Ethel KennedyCuomo (b. 1995), daughter of politician Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy; granddaughter of politician Robert F. Kennedy; twin of sister Mariah Matilda
- Cara Nicole Gosselin (b. 2000)daughter of reality TV personalities Jon & Kate Gosselin
- Cara Morkel (b. 2011)daughter of cricketer Albie Morkel
Cara in Pop Culture
- CaraIrish Gaelic word for "friend", explaining why it's so popular in Ireland.
- Caracharacter in "Teen Idol" by Meg Cabot
- Caracharacter in the Divergent trilogy
- Cara Coburncharacter on TV's "The Tomorrow People"
- Cara Masoncharacter in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
- Caracharacter in "Atlantia" by Ally Condie
- "Caraphernelia"a song by the band Pierce The Veil in which the title is a play on of the word paraphernalia and the name Cara
- Carasynthia "Cara" Dunecharacter in Star Wars show "The Mandalorian"