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 [ 2 syll. ta-ra, tar-a ] The girl name Tara is pronounced as TEHRah KEY. 1: Tara is used mostly in the English language and its language of origin is Celtic. Literally from the element 'tara' meaning hill. The first name is derived from the Irish place name 'Teamhair na Rí', translated to English as Hill of Tara; the place is located in County Meath, former seat of the high kings of Ireland and therefore known also as 'Hill of the King'. Another derivation suggests the origin as Temair, the name of the earth goddess in Irish mythology, of the meaning 'dark one'. The given name was first adopted by English speakers at the end of the 19th century. It later appeared as the name of the estate inherited by Scarlett O'Hara in the movie Gone with the Wind (1939), thereby promoting the popularity of the name in the USA. In England, the name was popularized in the 1960s by the character Tara King in the television series The Avengers. The name Tara is widely used; it has 29 variant forms that are used in both English and other languages. Variant forms of Tara used in English include Tahra, Taira, Tairra, Taraea, Tarai, Tarasa, Tarasha, Taraya, Tarha, Tari, Taria (used in Indian and German as well), Tarila, Tarilyn, Taris, Tarisa, Tarise, Tarisha, Tarissa, Tarita, Tarreara, Taryn, Tayra, Tera, and Terra (used in Italian and Portuguese as well). The variant spellings Tarah, Tareh, Tarra, and Tarrah are other English forms. A variant form of Tara in other languages is the Indian Tarika. 2: Tara's language of origin is Sanskrit and it is predominantly used in Indian. Here, the meaning is 'star; savior'. In Hinduism, the name was borne by a goddess, also known as Devi, perceived as the source of all life, and also by the second wife of the Hindu God Brihaspati, also known as Taraka. The name was borne in Buddhism by a female Buddha representing liberation. A form of the name is the English, Indian, and German Taria. Tara is an all-time favorite. Today it is still a rather popular baby girl name, but to a lesser degree than it was previously. The name grew in popularity from the 1940s up to the 1970s; prior to that, it was of only irregular use. At the modest height of its usage in 1972, 0.448% of baby girls were named Tara. It had a ranking of #38 then. The baby name has seen a steep decline in frequency since then. In 2008, it ranked at #632 with a usage of 0.023%. Within the family of girl names directly related to Tara, the English Taryn was the most popular. It was more commonly used than Tara by 32% in 2008. Baby names that sound like Tara include the English Teara, the English Tera, the English, Italian, and Portuguese Terra, the French Terre, the English Tahra, the English Taira, the English Tairra, the English Tarah, the English Taraya, the English Tareh, the English Tarha, the English Tari, the Finnish Tarja, the English Tarra, the English Tarrah, the English Taura, the English Tayra, the English Terah, the English Teri, and the English Terie. A famous person named Tara is Tara Reid, Actress, born 8 November 1975, Wyckoff, New Jersey. KEY: English pronunciation for Tara: T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
