Kara

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Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Meaning

Kara is both a given name and a surname with various, unrelated origins in various cultures. As an English name, it is usually considered a modern spelling variant of the Italian endearment cara, meaning beloved, or the Irish word cara, meaning friend.

From Wikipedia

Kara first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2011 with 275 babies (rank #186 that year). It was not in the 2024 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Kara

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Kara yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

3,443
Total babies (all years)
21
Years in the data
275
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Girls

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
1996148#255
1997175#230
1998151#257
1999134#275
2000161#247
2001160#248
2002134#283
2003149#276
2004137#300
2005105#381
2006136#324
2007196#256
2008230#221
2009260#197
2010209#235
2011275#186
2012194#254
2013130#352
2014127#357
201594#466
2016138#347