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My name is Tara and i love it because i have only met a few people named Tara also. Maybe 2-3. I do get a lot of confusing about pronouncing and spelling it but thats ok. I have had people spell my name as terra, tera, tarra and the normal spelling of tara. I think its a great name although there aren't any real nicknames for it. :J

My name is also Tara. I have always loved my name, because it is not very common. I do hate it when people mispronounce it or misspell it. I pronounce it, T-Air- Ah. I was never made fun of in school or anything, though my parents sometimes called me tara-ble (terrible) but only in jest.

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My best childhood friend was a Tara and she was the sweetest, kindest, most lovely person I have ever met. The one thing that annoyed her was when people misspronounced her name. Americans pronounced it Terra, and she hated it, so did I it sounds horrid that way. The only way to pronounce it is Tar-rah so both syllables rhyme otherwise, you just ruin the name

My name is Tara. I went to Ireland on vacation and that is exactly how they said it: Tar-rah. It sounded so pretty. Americans mispronounce it. That's all I'm saying. : )

Nicknames for Tara: | Edit

Tari

Meanings and history of the name Tara: | Edit

Female buddha. Known as ''the mother of all buddhas'' and ''the mother of liberation. When she had not yet taken full enlightenment, she was a Nepali princess. She and her Chinese sister, Wencheng, teamed up to marry and consequently subdue the mind of, Songtsän Gampo, the first (buddhist) emperor of Tibet.

In Sanscrit, Tara just means 'star'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhrikuti

Same as the Greek Athena (goddess of wisdom), Quan Yin or Kwannon in China and Southeast Asia (female deity of wisdom), and as she is now, Deborah (Book of Judges leader as well as the last incarnation of Eve).
Great balls of Fire!

Famous real-life people named Tara: | Edit

Tara Reid, American actress
Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, English socialite
Tara Fitzgerald, English actress
Tara Oram, Canadian country singer
Tara Hayes, "Table for 12", sextuplet
Tara Charendoff Strong, Canadian actress/voice actress, also a childhood friend of Cree Summer

Tara in song, story & screen: | Edit

Homestead of the O'Hara family in Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell.
Name of an area that fairies use to replenish their magic, considered the most magical place aboveground, in Ireland in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

Tara King, character in the 1960s British TV show "The Avengers"
Tara Maclay, character from TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Tara Martin, character in the early 1970s American soap opera "All My Children"
Tara Williams, tech-savvy Special Agent for the F.B.I. in the TV Series 'Sue Thomas F.B.Eye'