Tara
Its roots pull toward a Greek hero and an Irish hill, but the sense Polish keeps is star. Rare here: most Poles have never met a Tara, and it goes to boys and girls alike.
Tara Pronunciation
Tara is pronounced TAH-rah (/ˈtara/).
What Tara means
Where Tara comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Tara reached Polish parents through English, and its roots pull in several directions. Greek gives Taras, the hero credited with founding the city now called Taranto in southern Italy. In Sanskrit the same syllable names a goddess and means star. In Irish it is a hill, Teamhair, the seat where the old high kings were crowned.
English speakers know it best from Gone with the Wind, where Tara is the O'Hara family estate. Margaret Mitchell took the name from that Irish hill. The star sense, the one Polish keeps as gwiazda, comes from another line entirely.
In a Polish class register Tara sits short and complete, with no diminutive to shorten and no variant to correct. It resists shortening. The name that means star also means a hill in Ireland.
How many people are named Tara
1 in 164554 women in Poland is named Tara. 162 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2541 among female names.
Tara's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Tara is most popular
Tara is most popular in Lesser Poland, 852% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025).
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+852%
Tara as a middle name
Tara is a first name for 162 women in Poland and a middle name for another 49, a 77/23 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 987th, between Sydney (49) and Alia (48).
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#985 Sasha49
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#986 Sydney49
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#987 Tara49
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#988 Alia48
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#989 Anatolia48