Dara
Fewer than 50 people in Poland carry it, mostly women with a handful of men: meeting one would stick with you. The root is Slavic, meaning wisdom, or the one who holds it.
Dara Pronunciation
Dara is pronounced DAH-rah (/ˈdara/).
What Dara means
Where Dara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dara grows from Slavic roots. Polish readers hear in it mądrość, wisdom, and posiadacz mądrości, one who holds that wisdom. The sense of wisdom settled onto the name over time rather than sitting in its first syllable.
There is a second Dara, unrelated by blood. In Irish it descends from Dáire and means oak tree. The spelling matches, the lineage does not. A Polish child called Dara and an Irish one share four letters and little else. The Irish Dáire even names a figure from old legend, Dáire mac Fiachna, keeper of a famous bull in the Táin.
On a class register the name is short and quick to read. It needs no diminutive to soften it, and the grounding lists none. What stays, after the etymology is set aside, is a Slavic name meaning posiadacz mądrości.
How many people are named Dara
1 in 683146 women in Poland is named Dara. 40 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6106 among female names.
Dara as a middle name
Dara is a first name for 40 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2388th, between Damir (15) and Domingos (15).
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#2386 Dacjusz15
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#2387 Damir15
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#2388 Dara15
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#2389 Domingos15
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#2390 Don15