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Cara

Gender: F Popularity: this week. Origin of Cara: Latin Meaning of Cara: "friend" Cara's Popularity in 2012: #695
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Cara is a simple, sweet, Italian endearment that enjoyed its greatest popularity from the 1970s through the 1990s, reaching a high of Number 189 in 1977.

In the Evelyn Waugh novel Brideshead Revisited, the Cara character is French.

Damon Wayans took the endearment aspect even further when he named his now-grown daughter Cara Mia.

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Cara Delevingne, English model
Cara Mia Dianne Wayans (b. 1987), daughter of actor/comedian Damon Wayans

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Cara, character in Teen Idol

Nicknames & Variations for Cara

Caira, Carabel, Carabell, Carabelle, Caragh, Carah, Caralea, Caralee, Caraleigh, Caralia, Caralie, Caranda, Carely, Caretta, Carey, Carina, Carine, Carrah, Carrie, Carry, Kara, Karina, Karine, Karra, Karrie, Karry

Cara's International Variations

Carra (Irish)

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