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According to what I could find on my name. Ara was the greek goddess of vengence and distruction. Ara is a constillation and a type of Parrot. They don't have any of that on here. They have it on here as masculine as well but the only time it's been on the top 1000 it was a feminine name! I'm a girl and Ara sounds like a girls name. WDYT?
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I have only a small contribution to make. There doesn't seem to be any Greek goddess named Ara.
http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Arai.html
According to this, there are demons in Greek mythology called arai (singular ara). The word apparently means "curses", and is a group title, not a name.
The name for the parrot or macaw seems to come from a Tupi (native South American) word. In any case it is irrelevant since people aren't normally named after types of macaw.
As for Ara's use as a feminine name in the USA, if you check the popularity data, Clara and Sarah/Sara were very popular names at that same time. Cara, Cora, Dora, Era and Ora were also in the Top 1000 in the same time frame. Perhaps Ara's usage at that time could be explained by its trendy sound. Maybe Ara could have been a shortening of Arabella or Araminta (both were in the Top 1000 at the same time as Ara), or have come directly from the Latin word ara meaning "altar".
http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Arai.html
According to this, there are demons in Greek mythology called arai (singular ara). The word apparently means "curses", and is a group title, not a name.
The name for the parrot or macaw seems to come from a Tupi (native South American) word. In any case it is irrelevant since people aren't normally named after types of macaw.
As for Ara's use as a feminine name in the USA, if you check the popularity data, Clara and Sarah/Sara were very popular names at that same time. Cara, Cora, Dora, Era and Ora were also in the Top 1000 in the same time frame. Perhaps Ara's usage at that time could be explained by its trendy sound. Maybe Ara could have been a shortening of Arabella or Araminta (both were in the Top 1000 at the same time as Ara), or have come directly from the Latin word ara meaning "altar".
This message was edited 7/27/2012, 8:05 AM
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The name Ara on this site is the Armenian name, which those of us who are Baby Boomers in the USA remember as the given name of Ara Parseghian, a famous football coach at Notre Dame University:
http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/parseghian_ara00.html
The Greek goddess and the constellation have names with different origins from the Armenian male name. The constellation is named from the Latin word for "altar".
There probably are other possible derivations for Ara as a female name.
http://www.und.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/parseghian_ara00.html
The Greek goddess and the constellation have names with different origins from the Armenian male name. The constellation is named from the Latin word for "altar".
There probably are other possible derivations for Ara as a female name.
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