What Does The Name Tara Mean?

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What Does The Name Tara Mean?

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It's Irish and it means hill, and it also has something to do with wind. My names that and my mom says it means strong, so that might be true, she wouldn't lie. Also, look up google what does my name mean sight and then type in your name, they will tell you! It's gotten really popular, and I wanted my name to be unique... Oh- well :(.... So anywho, also, my dad named me and he's only seen 'Gone with the wind' once, a movie I ahven't seen but my family loves it... Says its cool and funny we don't have a good copy so I'm getting one from my grandparents... Anyway, it;s about a spolied girl and it was made a long time ago and she lives in a beautiful home/ land called Tara!!! I wasn't named after that, though.

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My mom named me tara and without knowing my last name is hill...funny she never knew my first name meant my last name...n the name goes so perfectly with me...

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My mom named me tara after gone with the wind

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My name is tara and I love it to death!!!

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Anonymous answered

The name tara means "star"

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My mamma named me tara aftr when she looked in the alf. Soup the letters spelled out my name

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Tara is an old Gaelic word meaning "hill." It was the name of a place in County Meath in Ireland, which was the place where the High Kings of Ireland had their halls; so it has always had significance in Irish history.

Tara was not used as a given name before the 1940s in the US, and later in the UK. The name probably began to be used because of the huge success of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel "Gone With the Wind" and its equally famous film version in 1939. In "Gone With the Wind" Tara is the name of the O'Hara family plantation, and is of central importance in the novel and film.

The name then became still more popular in Britain in the 1960s due to the fame of a character called Tara King in the "Avengers" series. Famous Tara today include the actress Tara Fitgerald.