Karra as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Karra

What is the meaning of the name Karra ?

The baby name Karra is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced KAIR-uh.

Karra is English, Latin in Origin.

Karra is most securely explained as a modern English respelling of Cara or Kara. The underlying root is Latin carus, with the feminine form cara, an adjective meaning dear, beloved, or costly. In naming use, Cara preserves that feminine Latin shape, while Karra adds a doubled medial consonant by analogy with English surname spellings and late-20th-century creative variants; the extra r has no separate etymological force.

Cara appears in Italian and Spanish as both a word and a given name, and Kara became familiar in English partly as an alternative spelling. Karra is much rarer, recorded mainly in the United States as a feminine name from the mid-20th century, with its strongest baby-name use in the late 1980s. Turkish Kara, meaning black, is a distinct homonym rather than the usual source of the Anglophone feminine Karra.