Cara

Where Cara comes from

20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Cara
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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.