Carah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KAH-ra
- Origin
- Italian
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Carah is a girls' name of Italian origin, meaning “dear, beloved”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Carah mean?
Italian: spelling of Kara, itself a spelling of Cara, from Italian cara
“dear, beloved”
Spelling of Cara, from Italian cara, dear; it also matches Irish cara, friend, and Turkish kara, black.
Meaning borrowed from Kara. More on Wiktionary.
Is Carah a girl's or a boy's name?
Carah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Carah in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 5 girls.
Carah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | #7,238 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 1 | #7,664 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 1 | #7,592 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 2 | #7,640 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 1 | #7,017 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 2 | #6,098 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 1 | #5,182 |
How popular is Carah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Carah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2000, with 39 girls. It first appears in the records in 1969.
2025 had more girls named Carah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Carah in the US since 1880 were born between 1991 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 237 girls in the US were given Carah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #963, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Carah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,467 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,112 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,145 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,600 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,268 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,747 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,516 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,123 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,133 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,058 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,216 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,386 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,413 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,310 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,633 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,894 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,179 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,580 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,371 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,771 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,679 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,802 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,544 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,664 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,060 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,307 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,185 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,280 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,965 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,475 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,532 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,745 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,788 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,957 |
| 1977 | 13 | #4,941 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,154 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,469 |
Names like Carah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kiara, Keira, Caoimhe, Eden, Sienna, Cassidy, Clodagh, Caitlin, Niamh, Summer, Hannah, Eilidh
Other spellings of Carah
Names related to Carah
More Italian names
Aria, Enzo, Bella, Gemma, Ariyah, Milani, Ariya, Armani, Bianca, Siena, Ariah, Capri, Emiliana, Jemma, Alfredo, Nella
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Carah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/carah, updated 20 October 2026.