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Cara
Rank in 2024
#1,296
Born in 2024
178
Peak year
1985 · #184
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 178 girls were named Cara, about 1 in every 9,063.
- It peaked in 1985 with 1,465 babies, ranked #184.
- It first shows up in the records in 1882.
- 53,135 girls have been named Cara since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Cara per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.7Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 546 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 624 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,881 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen X: 15,101 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Millennials: 19,490 babies, 0.69 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,725 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,597 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
20th-century English coinage from Italian cara (“dear”) or Irish cara (“friend”).
- A female given name originating as a coinage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Cara, CC BY-SA 4.0.