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.
Famous people with this name
- Cara Dillon (born 1975) — Northern-Irish singer
- Cara Murray (born 2000) — Irish cricketer
- Cara Hunter (born 1995) — Northern Irish politician
- Cara Augustenborg (born 1978) — Irish and American environmental scientist
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Cara on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
Meanings follow Ó Corráin & Maguire's Irish Names and Woulfe; pronunciations give the commonest Irish-English form. Know this name better — a dialect pronunciation, a family tradition? Tell us. · All Irish names A–Z