Tara

• It's a great name because you can't derive any nickname from it. Tara is always Tara and only an idiot can misspell it. Easy name for children to grow up with. Uncommon also, hardly any other Tara's in class. Add a monosyllabic middle name.
• Its a nice old Irish kinda romantic name, my idiot hubby says it sounds like what goes on an Italian road...he wrecks all my pretty names
• sweet, short and simple, yet still beautiful and sort of heavenly.
• Because it is simple yet exotic, and is the name of a goddess.
• Cute, sporty and the name of my favorite athlete!

Tara is an anglicization of the Irish name Teamhair. This ancient Irish name probably derives from an Old Irish word meaning "eminence." In Irish mythology, Teamhair was a woman who gave her name to the Hill of Tara, the seat of the High Kings of Ireland. Because of this, the name Tara has been associated with the word "hill." Since the name Teamhair sounds a bit like "tor," it has been confused with that word as well, meaning "a high craggy hill." Tor comes from the Old English word torr, whose roots also give us the modern English word tower." Tara is most popular in the USA and Canada, where it took off after the film Gone With the Wind came out, where Tara was the name of the plantation. In Ireland, it was sporadically used from the 1800s on, where it was mostly a boy's name.

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