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Baby name
Lara
Girl
Origin of the name
Lara is a Russian name, made popular by Lara, the heroine of Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, and its film adaptation.
Classic name
30,168births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 222rank at its peak, in 1969
Where babies named Lara are born
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Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Lara is most common in New Jersey (1.7 times), Florida (1.5) and Massachusetts (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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