Cara

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

1) Latin carus = 'beloved' ^{[1] [2]}

2) Short form of Carola and Carolina ^[2]

3) Variant spelling of Kara ^[3]

Related Names

Cara	♀

See also Carina, Kara

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1827 ^[2]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[4]		18	28	1	1
Denmark[5]		14	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[6]		0	24	0	0
Finland[7]		n.a.	47	n.a	4
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Cara.

Sources: ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

References

1. ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Own theory. No references found, yet.
4. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
7. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi