🔥Mara

Hebrew
"bitter"

Mara Origin and Meaning

The name Mara is a girl's name of Hebrew, Czech origin meaning "bitter".

Mara is the evocative ancient root of Mary, appearing in the Book of Ruth, in which Naomi, devastated after the death of her two sons, says "Call me not Naomi, call me Mara." It's one of the girl names starting with M that both fits in and stands out.

Mara is a multicultural name, also a Kiswahili word meaning "a time," and could be conceived as a geographical name, being a river flowing through Kenya and Tanzania.

As a child actress, Mara Wilson played leading roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire.

# 582 in the US

Mara Rank in US Top 1000

# 239 on Nameberry

Mara Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Mara Popularity

Famous People Named Mara

  • Mara Elizabeth Wilson
    American actress
  • Mara Schiavocampo
    American news correspondent
  • Mara Hoffman
    American fashion designer
  • Mara Branković
    daughter of Serbian monarch Đurađ (George) Branković, member of the harem of Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Empire
  • Mara Liasson
    American journalist
  • La Mara
    pen name of German writer Marie Lipsius
  • Kate Mara
    American actress
  • (Patricia) Rooney Mara
    American actress

Mara in Pop Culture

  • Mara aka Marzanna
    Slavic goddess of winter, death, and harvest
  • Mara Jade Skywalker
    character in the "Star Wars Extended Universe" series
  • Mara
    a goddess of love and compassion from "The Elder Scrolls" videogames
  • "Mara: Daughter of the Nile
    " novel by Eloise McGraw
  • Mara Jaffray
    a character on TV's "House of Anubis"
  • Mara
    antagonist of "The Clockwork Forest," by Doug Macleod
  • Mara Aramov
    character in the "Syphon Filter" video game series
  • Mara Wade
    character in 1965 movie "Mara of the Wilderness"
  • Mara Amrita Dyer
    title character in Michelle Hodkin's novel series
  • Mara
    one of seven Gods in David Eddings' series "The Belgariad"
  • Mara Carlyle
    main character in novel "Spontaneous" by Aaron Starmer
  • Mara
    a tempter figure in Buddhism