Mara

Mara can be either a surname or a female first name. As a surname, it may be:
Irish: a shortened form of O’Mara;
Hungarian: from a pet form of the personal names Márkus (Hungarian form of Marcus or Mark) or Márton (Hungarian form of Martin), or from a short form of the old ecclesiastical name Marcel;
Czech (Mára): from a pet form of the personal name Marek or Martin.
Mara as a female first name is pronounced MAHR-ah most of the time, but can be pronounced as rhyming with Sarah in Jewish-American and Southern United States culture. It is of Hebrew origin, and the meaning of Mara is "bitter", which carries the implication "strength". Biblical: Naomi, mother-in-law of Ruth, claimed the name Mara as an expression of grief after the deaths of her husband and sons. It also means "Lady" in Aramaic, because Mar means "Lord", and is a title of bishops in the Syriac Christian church. It is also the name of a bitter lake in the Bible, and a title of the Kabbalistic sephira Binah. Mara means joy in Arabic and can be a unisex name. (Ar:مرح)
May also be used as a Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek or Eastern European variant of Mary, Marianna, Maria, Marzanna and as a short form of Tamara. It is a variant of Maura, an Anglicization of the Irish name Máire, the Irish name of Mary, or the Scottish name Moira. It can also be a feminine version of Mauro, meaning a dark-skinned person. In Hindu, and Southeast Asian Buddhist cultures, it is etymologically related to the Sanskrit terms Mala (rosary), Mallika (jasmine) or Mayura (peacock) and is a unisex name or a surname, etymologically unrelated to anything demonic in Sino-Tibetan and modern Indic languages because the letters R and L are sometimes conflated (cf. in Japanese). It is a popular name in Latin America and the United States, for it has been in the top 1000 in the United States since 1950.

Māra is a Latvian feminine given name. The associated name day is March 25.

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Gaelic word for sea. Hindu goddess of destruction, death, winter, and the moon. Bitter, sorrow in Hebrew.

Mary, Maria

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Kate Mara	1983	American actress
2	Rooney Mara	1985	American actress
3	Mara Wilson	1987	American playwright, singer, blogger, writer and actress
4	Mara Jade		Fictional character in Star Wars
5	John Mara	1954	American football executive
6	Wellington Mara	1916	American businessman
7	Mara Maravilha	1968	Brazilian singer and TV host
8	Tim Mara	1887	American football executive
9	Mara Corday	1930	American actor and model
10	Mara Brock Akil	1970	Screenwriter, producer
11	Mara Liasson	1955	American journalist
12	Mara Hobel	1971	American actress
13	Adele Mara	1923	American actress
14	Ann Mara	1929	Socialite, Philanthropist
15	Mara Carfagna	1975	Italian politician
16	Mary Mara	1960	American actress
17	Mara Abbott	1985	American racing cyclist
18	Mara Lopez	1991	Filipino actor and surfer
19	Mara Schiavocampo	1979	American journalist
20	Timothy J. Mara	1939	American businessman
21	Kamisese Mara	1920	President of Fiji
22	Mara Bergmann	1982	German television presenter and journalist
23	Mara Davi		American actress
24	Mara Carvalho	1961	Brazilian actress
25	Mara Lima	1961
26	Mara Kayser	1966	German singer
27	Mara Escalante	1968	Mexican actress
28	P. J. Mara	1942	Irish politician
29	Mara Lane	1930	Austrian actress
30	Mara Branković	1416	Wife of Ottoman Sultan
31	Mara Croatto	1969	Puerto Rican actress
32	Mara Takla Haymanot		Ruler of Ethiopia
33	Mara bar Serapion on Jesus
34	Jack Mara	1908	American football executive
35	Mara Venier	1950	Actress
36	Paul Mara	1979	American ice hockey player
37	Mara Cubeddu	1956	Italian singer
38	Mara Goyanes	1942	Spanish actor and Vedette (1942-2006)
39	Mara Dierssen Sotos	1961	Spanish professor
40	Mara Scherzinger	1989	German actress
41	Mara Yamauchi	1973	British long distance track, and road running athlete
42	Mara Santangelo	1981	Italian tennis player
43	Mara Goyet	1973	French writer
44	Mara Tremblay	1969
45	Mara Selvini Palazzoli	1916	Italian psychiatrist
46	Mara Darmousli	1981	Greek model
47	Mara Keisling	1959	American transgender activist
48	Mara Maionchi	1941	Italian record producer
49	Mara Carlyle		British singer-songwriter
50	Bogdan Mara	1977	Footballer
51	Mara Reyes	1977	Mexican stock car racing drivers
52	Mara Davis	1969	American radio personality
53	Mara Buneva	1902	Bulgarian revolutionary
54	Mara Gaye	1920	American showgirl
55	Moussa Mara	1975	Malian politician
56	Mara MacDonald		American television reporter
57	Lala Mara	1931
58	Mara Karma	1926
59	Mara Bar-Serapion		Syrian author
60	Thalia Mara	1911	Ballet teacher and author
61	Mara Rúbia	1918	Brazilian actress
62	Mohamed Mara	1996
63	Mara Lakić	1963	Bosnian basketball player
64	Mara Aranda	1968	Spanish singer
65	Māra Cielēna	1954
66	Mara Galeazzi	1973	Italian ballet dancer
67	Dan Mara		American basketball coach
68	Tânia Mara	1983	Brazilian singer
69	Alessandro Mara	1973	Italian singer
70	Patrick Mara		Amercian politician
71	Mara Manzan	1952	Brazilian actress
72	Lya Mara	1897	Star of the German silent cinema
73	Māra Zālīte	1952	Latvian writer
74	Mara Andeck	1967	German journalist and writer
75	George Mara	1921	Ice hockey player
76	Mara van Vlijmen	1979	Dutch television actor and film actor
77	Mara Mattuschka	1959	Austrian film director
78	Gertrud Elisabeth Mara	1749	German operatic soprano
79	Mara McAfee	1929	American actress and dancer
80	Mara Titarsolej	1999
81	Tevita Mara		Fijian chief
82	Mara Hvistendahl	2000	American journalist
83	Wil Mara	1966	American writer
84	Mara	1968	Italian singer
85	Pol Mara	1920	Belgian painter
86	Mara Abrantes
87	Finau Mara	1960	Fijian politician
88	Mara Bizzotto	1972	Italian politician
89	Mara Zampieri	1951	Italian Opera singer
90	Mara Thompson	1967	Barbadian politician
91	Mara Berni	1932	Italian actress
92	Mara Torres	1974	Spanish journalist
93	Mara Neusel	1964	Mathematician
94	Mara Cruz	1941	Spanish actress
95	Mara Lee	1973	Swedish translator and writer
96	Mara Sapon-Shevin		American academic
97	Mara Kovačević	1975	Serbian judoka
98	Alehana Mara	1989	New Zealand rugby league player
99	Mara Bergman		American writer
100	Mara Candelaria Reardon		American politician
101	Māra Ķimele	1943
102	Mara Eggert	1938	German photographer
103	Mara Mather		American psychologist
104	John Andrew Mara		Canadian politician
105	Mamoudou Mara	1990	Footballer
106	Michele Mara	1903	Italian cyclist
107	Celia Mara	1961	Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer
108	Mara Galassi	1956	Italian musician
109	Mara Navarria	1985	Italian fencer
110	Mara Ahmed
111	Mara Kapaiwai		Fijian noble
112	Mara Del Rio	1928	Italian singer
113	Gary Mara	1962	Australian rugby league player
114	Mara Scagni	1955	Italian politician
115	Mara Genschel	1982	German author
116	Mara Devereux	1932	American artist
117	Mara Djordjević	1916
118	Mara Mucci	1982	Italian politician
119	Mara Đorđević-Malagurski	1894	Serbian ethnographer
120	Mara Rosolen	1965	Athletics competitor
121	Mara Jones	1974	Canadian rower
122	Mara Zini	1979	Italian short track skater
123	Mara Recatero
124	Mara Fullin	1965	Basketball player
125	Mara Carisi	1919	Italian actress
126	Mara Malavenda	1945	Italian politician
127	Uerdi Mara	1999
128	Mara Laue	1958	German writer
129	Mara Naceva	1920	Macedonian political commissar and politician (1920-2013)
130	Mara Sacchi	1948	Italian freestyle swimmer.
131	Mara Mäntyniemi		Finnish guitarist
132	Peter Mara	1947	Canadian ice hockey player
133	Mara Servetto	1957	Italian architect and designer
134	Mara Petrova	1921	Bulgarian musician
135	Mara Elliott
136	Mara Margaret Helmuth	1957	American composer
137	Mara Aiacoboae	1994	Romanian diver
138	Elidion Mara	1997	Albanian footballer
139	Mara Santos	1969	Spanish canoer
140	Mara Bâtea	1995	Romanian association football player
141	Mara Cantoni	1951	Italian playwright and writer
142	Mara Heinze-Hoferichter	1887	German writer (1887-1958)
143	Mara Kralj	1909
144	Mara Valdinosi	1959	Italian politician
145	Alcide Mara	1970	French poet (1970-2012)
146	Māra Mennika	1978
147	Mara Carocci	1954	Italian politician
148	Mara Brunetti	1976	Olympic synchronized swimmer
149	Mara Salminen	1964	Finnish record producer
150	Mara Švel-Garmišek	1900	Croatian novelist and poet
151	Pio Mara	1900	Italian association football player
152	Ulrike Mara	1946	Austrian writer
153	Mara Leão	1991	Brazilian volleyball player
154	Mara Buzzanca	1976	Italian basketball player
155	Ignác František Mara
156	Mara Kakko	1940
157	Mara Puškarić-Petras	1903	Croatian painter (1903-1998)
158	Mara Lazarevic Brankovic
159	Mara Feldern-Förster	1866	German actress
160	Mara Hüsemann		Brazilian actress
161	Candida Mara	1877	Italian singer
162	Māra Lāce	1954
163	Mara Pringsheim	1897	German singer (1897-1965)
164	Mara Silva	1930
165	Mara Marini		Argentinian painter
166	Mara León	1970
167	Mara Mauri	1928	Italian singer
168	Mara Gabrilli	1967	Brazilian psychologist and politician
169	Enrico Mara	1912	Italian bicycle racer
170	Mara Aguirre	1978	Argentinian poet
171	Mara Pop	1992
172	Māra Grīva	1989
173	Punji Mara
174	Mara Angelina Galvão Magenta	1959	Botanist
175	Mara Bešter	1922	Slovene economist (1922-2010)
176	Mara De Paulis		Italian journalist and writer
177	Mara Kalan	1934
178	Mara Colla	1950
179	Māra Svīre	1936
180	Mara Nimis	1969
181	Margaux Kindhauser	1983	Swiss comics artist
182	Mara Colombo	1993
183	Mara Mareș	1992	Romanian politician
184	Mara Janković	1925
185	Mara Allen	1987	American rower
186	Mara Clarke
187	Mara Šlajpah Zorn	1919	Slovenian librarian
188	Mara Ivanova Belcheva	1868	Bulgarian poet (1868-1937)
189	Mara Rekar	1937
190	Mara Apih-Pečar	1900
191	Mara Lamut	1884
192	Mara Tavčar	1882
193	Mara Braun	1978	German writer
194	Māra Timermane	1960
195	Johann Mara	1744