Cara

Where Cara comes from

20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cara
  • Vowel-ended
Cara through the years
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1979
    Cara Black born
    Zimbabwean tennis player
  3. 1985
    Peak, #184
    1,465 babies named Cara, the most in any year.
  4. 1992
    Cara Delevingne born
    English model and actor
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #386.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes
  • Cara Delevingne · English model and actor, born 1992
  • Cara Black · Zimbabwean tennis player, born 1979
  • Cara Buono · American actress, screenwriter, and director, born 1971
  • Cara Williams · American actress, 1925–2021
  • Cara Cunningham · American Internet personality, songwriter, and recording artist, born 1987

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.