About the name Dara
Dara belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Dara first appears in Social Security records in 1893. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #470 in 1981, and in 2024 244 babies received the name — 13,484 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.