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Jan2026x · 2025-06-06T05:53:54+00:00

Would you spell it with out without an accent? Cárá Cára Cara Cará

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MrsPositivity1 · 08/06/2025 14:32

Why are you complicating things? Just use Cara

MolkosTeenageAngst · 08/06/2025 10:47

Cara. I have seen it spelt Kara too but personally prefer the C.

IfIDid · 08/06/2025 10:46

BangersAndGnash · 08/06/2025 10:13

Çãrrâ

or

Cara

😀

eggandonion · 08/06/2025 10:35

Caragh entered the code top 100 in 2024. If you go with Cara you risk having to say there's no gh! My kids are in their 20s and 30s, and we're at school with lots of Clara's.
I haven't met a baby Ciara in a long time!

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 10:30

AuntDympna · 08/06/2025 10:04

Surname Caffrey - from Cabhra, not recent.
Carthach is another similar name historically popular. Hence Carthy.
I don't think there's evidence for Cara being used historically, but correct me if I'm wrong.
To be honest, in words like
car (because)
thar (over)
mar (like)
dar liom (i think)

All these the ar sound is more like the usual pronunciation of the name. The r drags the a.

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I actually don’t know what you mean. None of those words sound like the first syllable of Cara!

Cárthach is not the same as cabhrach.

Just did a very quick google and I can’t see that cabhrach is related to the surname Caffrey either. That seems to be related to the name Godfrey?

Anyway, I just think it’s very misleading to tell OP that Cabhrach is an Irish first name that can sound like Cora. It isn’t and it doesn’t!!

It has made the thread more interesting I suppose 😁
For me at least. I suspect some others are bored stiff by my witterings😅

Lins77 · 08/06/2025 10:29

BangersAndGnash · 08/06/2025 10:13

Çãrrâ

or

Cara

First one could be a new spelling of Sarah 😄

AuntDympna · 08/06/2025 10:22

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:57

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/cabhrach

It doesn’t matter what labhair sounds like, does it? It’s a different word.

Probably by associating with comhair.
I'm just trying to make the thread more interesting.

Andoutcomethewolves · 08/06/2025 10:17

Cara. Although my NI friend is Caragh but I'd just go for simple

BangersAndGnash · 08/06/2025 10:13

Çãrrâ

or

Cara

SomersetBrie · 08/06/2025 10:05

Depends how you want to pronounce it.

Cornettoninja · 08/06/2025 10:04

I also knew a Kara about twenty years ago. Like the sea so I presume a Russian/slavic influence.

Nothing to do with the Kardasians.

AuntDympna · 08/06/2025 10:04

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:37

Also, I’ve never heard of Cabhra or Cabhrach used as a name. It’s not listed in Irish baby name records kept since the 1960s, so it must be very rare if it’s used at all. They don’t include names used fewer than 3 times a year on the public sites.

Surname Caffrey - from Cabhra, not recent.
Carthach is another similar name historically popular. Hence Carthy.
I don't think there's evidence for Cara being used historically, but correct me if I'm wrong.
To be honest, in words like
car (because)
thar (over)
mar (like)
dar liom (i think)

All these the ar sound is more like the usual pronunciation of the name. The r drags the a.

Lins77 · 08/06/2025 10:03

Cärǎ

ScoliMum · 08/06/2025 10:00

Cah-rah

Absolutely no need to start over complicating things with different spellings etc.

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:57

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/cabhrach

It doesn’t matter what labhair sounds like, does it? It’s a different word.

Irish Pronunciation Database: cabhrach

How to pronounce 'cabhrach' in Irish

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fuaim/cabhrach

AuntDympna · 08/06/2025 09:49

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:25

Cabhra/cabhrach would be pronounced Cow-rock (approximately, it’s a ch like in loch not a k really) or Cow-ra usually, depending on dialect. Cow-rock in the south, Cowra in the north.
Where does it sound like Cora @AuntDympna ?

Cára would be Caw-ra in Munster and Connacht though the pronunciation could work in Ulster all right. It doesn’t mean friend anymore once you spell it with the fada though OP.
Cár without the last a means car.

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In Ulster - not on teanglann but labhair is pronounced like that on teanglann.

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:42

Sorry, cár means teeth more!!
Carr is car. They sound very similar.
Need coffee or something, sorry about that😂

LittleBearPad · 08/06/2025 09:42

Cara is a lovely name and that’s how it’s spelt.

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:37

Also, I’ve never heard of Cabhra or Cabhrach used as a name. It’s not listed in Irish baby name records kept since the 1960s, so it must be very rare if it’s used at all. They don’t include names used fewer than 3 times a year on the public sites.

MissJoGrant · 08/06/2025 09:31

Car?-Aaaargh!

Lastmoon · 08/06/2025 09:25

Cabhra/cabhrach would be pronounced Cow-rock (approximately, it’s a ch like in loch not a k really) or Cow-ra usually, depending on dialect. Cow-rock in the south, Cowra in the north.
Where does it sound like Cora @AuntDympna ?

Cára would be Caw-ra in Munster and Connacht though the pronunciation could work in Ulster all right. It doesn’t mean friend anymore once you spell it with the fada though OP.
Cár without the last a means car.

AuntDympna · 08/06/2025 08:52

Cabhra or Cabhrach would be an Irish name. (Pronounced like Cora in some places, Cov-ra in others.) Means helper, coworker, hard to translate. Someone who shows up to help with big tasks like bringing the hay in. A friendly practical person.

Cara might well be a misreading of the Irish word for friend and used to reflect Irish heritage by diaspora, like Colleen. It might have been pronounced correctly as in Irish at first, and then altered due to contact with English.
Although there is no síneadh fada on cara you'd need one in Irish to get the usual pronunciation Cára, like in the words lár and lárach.

Theextraordinaryisintheordinary · 08/06/2025 08:13

Cara or Kara (no accents needed)

MiddleClassProblem · 08/06/2025 08:10

theunbreakablecleopatrajones · 07/06/2025 23:56

Is your surname Kardashian?

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There are plenty of Kara’s in the world and have been for centuries particularly across Europe so with a K is perfectly normal choice tbh.

Butdidyou · 08/06/2025 04:43

Denimrules · 08/06/2025 01:25

Basing this on friend of many years who is Irish origins Kiwi

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That's fine, I'm just telling you that it's a nightmare for the individual who has to spend their entire life saying "there's a "gh" at the end...you don't pronounce it...haha yeah it is unusual" every time they have to spell their name.