Cara
A Latin name meaning friend, or dear one. In Poland it barely registers: around 30 women carry it, and most Poles have never met a Cara.
Cara Pronunciation
Cara is pronounced TSAH-rah (/ˈt͡sara/).
What Cara means
Where Cara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cara comes from Latin. The root is carus, meaning dear or beloved, and cara is its feminine form. Before it was a name it was an ordinary word, the kind a Roman used for someone held close. English speakers later took it up as a given name and kept that meaning near the surface.
The second half of the meaning, friend, has its own anchor. In Irish, cara is the everyday word for a friend. Both senses stay with the name, beloved from the Latin, friend from the Irish word.
On a Polish class register, Cara reads short and clear, four letters with no diminutive to trim. It has no standard nickname. What the name gives back is its meaning: beloved, and dear.
How many people are named Cara
1 in 751461 women in Poland is named Cara. 30 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7447 among female names.
Cara as a middle name
Cara is a first name for 30 women in Poland and a middle name for another 8, a 79/21 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2718th, between Brunhilde (8) and Carine (8).
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#2716 Birgit8
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#2717 Brunhilde8
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#2718 Cara8
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#2719 Carine8
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#2720 Catrin8