Cara

Latin, Italian, Irish, Spanish, and Portuguese

"dear; friend; face"

Cara Origin and Meaning

The name Cara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dear; friend; face".

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. Though the name has been on the decline in recent years, that could change soon due to the rising celebrity of English model/actress Cara Delevingne, who played Enchantress in Suicide Squad. Cara is a highly popular choice in Ireland.

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.

Cara Rank in US Top 1000

# 908 in the US

Cara Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 608 on Nameberry

Cara Popularity

• 908 US 2020
• 608 Nameberry 2024
• 172 Unique 2022
• 373 England 2021
• 130 Scotland 2023
• 28 Ireland 2023
• 333 Germany 2016

20 Names Similar to Cara

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Cara.

• Kara
• Brooke
• Catalina
• Alexa
• Alexandra
• Kira
• Mara
• Calla
• Lana
• Callie
• Carina
• Kate
• Cassandra
• Ellie
• Allegra
• Camilla
• Carmen
• Celia
• April
• Amy

Famous People Named Cara

• Cara Jocelyn Delevingne English model and actress
• Cara Jenkins English actress
• Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat) American actress
• Cara Black Zimbabwean tennis player
• Cara Seymour English actress
• Cara Elizabeth Dillon Irish singer
• Cara Lockwood American novelist
• Cara Pifko Canadian actress
• Cara Luft Canadian singer,songwriter
• Cara Hain Wakelin Canadian model and actress
• Cara Zavaleta American model and actress
• Cara Elizabeth DeLizia American actress
• Cara Readle Welsh actress
• Cara Renee Gorges Miss Kansas USA 2007
• Cara Elizabeth Quici American singer,songwriter
• Cara Buono American actress
• Cara Connolly (b. 1974) daughter of comedian Billy Connolly
• Cara Mia Dianne Wayans (b. 1987) daughter of actor/comedian Damon Wayans
• Cara Rose (b. 1989) daughter of baseball player Pete Rose
• Cara Ethel Kennedy Cuomo (b. 1995), daughter of politician Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy; granddaughter of politician Robert F. Kennedy; twin of sister Mariah Matilda
• Cara Nicole Gosselin (b. 2000) daughter of reality TV personalities Jon & Kate Gosselin
• Cara Morkel (b. 2011) daughter of cricketer Albie Morkel

Cara in Pop Culture

• Cara Irish Gaelic word for "friend", explaining why it's so popular in Ireland.
• Cara character in "Teen Idol" by Meg Cabot
• Cara character in the Divergent trilogy
• Cara Coburn character on TV's "The Tomorrow People"
• Cara Mason character in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
• Cara character in "Atlantia" by Ally Condie
• "Caraphernelia" a song by the band Pierce The Veil in which the title is a play on of the word paraphernalia and the name Cara
• Carasynthia "Cara" Dune character in Star Wars show "The Mandalorian"