Ara means the sky, the day and time itself in Guarani, the indigenous language of Paraguay — a word as wide as the heavens.
Simple and open, it carries the whole bright expanse of the sky.
Ara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ara reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.