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cara Name Meaning and History

  1. Southern Italian: from the feminine form of caro ‘dear’ (see Caro).
  2. Spanish and Portuguese: from cara ‘face’, presumably applied as a nickname for someone with a beautiful or otherwise distinctive face.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cara Families in the US in 1920
Number of cara families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Cara/Hanna/Ireland-PA-IL Susan Ulfers Campbell 3
Looking For relatives Mary Ann Cara Larison 8
Cara Family - Cornwall (UK)- Italy - Melbourne (AUS) Peggy 0
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