Kara

Where Kara comes from

Variant of Cara.
— Wiktionary's entry for Kara
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1634
    Kara Mustafa Paşa born
    Ottoman military leader and grand vizier
  2. 1896
    First appearance
    #1,583 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1919
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1988
    Peak, #95
    3,039 babies named Kara — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1989
    Kara Mbodji born
    Senegalese footballer
  6. 2001
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #216.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Kara Mustafa Paşa · Ottoman military leader and grand vizier, 1634–1683
  • Kara Mbodji · Senegalese footballer, born 1989
  • Kara Ahmed Pasha · Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, 1450–1555
  • Kara Walker · American painter and installation artist, born 1969
  • Kara DioGuardi · American music producer, composer and pop singer, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.