Meanings
- A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
"If we live in a country where so many people could elect Donald Trump, then that's not a country I want to live in," 17-year-old Lara Godoff told the Associated Press.
2017 January 6, “Is 'Trump-effect' to blame for US students fleeing to Canada?”, in BBC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 20251 more example
Long after the divorce, Moran maintained the habit of giving her name as Lara to the Starbucks baristas. She had once met another Lara at Logan airport, both of them waiting for their coffees, both stepping forward when summoned. The other Lara said her parents had gone through a period of thinking that everything Russian was holy,and had named her Larissa―Lara―after the heroine of a Russian novel. Later, her parents left their hippie-hood behind and gave her younger sisters more normal names: Jennifer, Molly, Aimee.
2014, Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN - A surname.
Origin
- RussianЛа́ра
- EnglishLara
Anglicized from Russian Ла́ра (Lára), a Russian pet form of Larissa, known from the novel (1957) and film (1965) Dr Zhivago.
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French Lara
- Larafemale given name
German Lara
- Larafemale given name
Italian Lara
- Larafemale given name
Portuguese Lara
- Larafemale given name
Russian Ла́ра
- Ла́ра (Lára)female given name
Ukrainian Лара
- Лара (Lara)female given name
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Lara
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Cite this entry
Lara. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lara
“Lara.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lara. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lara,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lara.
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