Karah

Meaning of Karah

Karah, a gentle murmur in the melody of names, dances between the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany and the mist-veiled moors of ancient Ireland, bearing within its syllables a dual heritage—Italian cara, ‘beloved,’ and Gaelic ciará, ‘little dark one’—that wraps the bearer in an embrace at once intimate and storied. Pronounced KAIR-uh (/kɛərˈə/), this name unfurls like a velvet ribbon across an olive grove at dusk, evoking moonlit lakes shimmering with silent poetry and the tender hush of evening breezes in Venetian alleyways. Its rare bloom in the United States—just nine newborns in 2024—lends an air of exclusive enchantment, a whispered secret carried softly from one generation to the next, and parents who choose Karah often delight in its elegance as though discovering a stray biscotti tucked into a crisp linen napkin—unexpectedly charming, utterly irresistible. Since first glimmering on naming charts in the 1970s—cresting modestly in the early 2000s before settling into a subtle, persistent grace—Karah endures as a testament to timeless beauty and the promise of both shadow and light held within a single, luminous name.

Pronunciation

English

  • Pronunced as KAIR-uh (/kɛərˈə/)

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