The cara Surname

cara Name Meaning and History

Southern Italian: from the feminine form of caro ‘dear’ (see Caro).
Spanish and Portuguese: from cara ‘face’, presumably applied as a nickname for someone with a beautiful or otherwise distinctive face.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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cara Family Facts

Distribution of cara Families in the US in 1920

Number of cara families

14-25

5-13

1-4

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Cara Family - Cornwall (UK)- Italy - Melbourne (AUS)	Peggy	1
Cara/Hanna/Ireland-PA-IL	Susan Ulfers Campbell	3
Looking For relatives	Mary Ann Cara Larison	8

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