Girl's name
Cara
“KA-ra”
'friend' in modern Irish
The story behind the name
A modern coinage from the everyday Irish word for friend — cara, as in 'a chara', the standard opening of an Irish letter. It happens also to mean 'dear' in Italian, which has helped it travel.
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