Baby name
Kara
/KAH · rah/
Meaning
“Turkish for 'black' or 'dark'”
Turkish for 'black' or 'dark', and also an English variant of Cara from Latin meaning 'dear'; the dual etymology gives it multicultural reach.
How it ages.
Clean and versatile; wears well across cultures without feeling borrowed.
The cultural moment.
Used in Turkey as a word name; popular in the United States and Ireland in the 1970s-1990s.