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55Tara Wells from Canada: I asked my parents how I came to be known as Tara, and it is simply the first name my parents could agree apon. Mom wanted Tonya, Dad liked Tanya. Their requirements were only that it be two syllables, also, since it started with a T (they were looking in a book on baby names) they figured it was close enough to the names they had each wanted.
Tara Webb from Charleston-USA: My parents named me Tara because they like Gone With The Wind. I think because my name is Tara I watch Gone With The Wind more than I should.
There is another Tara Webb on Tara-page 5 (number 190) and Tara-page 6 (number 255).
Tara Match from USA: My parents were (and are) huge fans of the movie "Gone With the Wind". I was named for the plantation in the film.
Tara Long from Arkansas-USA: I have asked my parents in the past why the name, Tara. One reply, was that immediately after I was born, and the doctor slapped my back, I screamed so loud that the doctor said, "What a terror." My dad told me that, but I think that he was just giving me a hard time. My mother told me, when I was younger, that I was named after the plantation in Gone with the Wind (which happens to be my favorite book) and the actual geographic location in Ireland (I am a small part Irish).
Tara Marquiss from the USA: Tara is an irish place name. It is the ancient home of the irish kings. Also, in the buddist religion, Tara was a savior goddess!!
Tara Haller from Queensland - Australia: Why my parents named me Tara? Well, it has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind, or Ireland, as many of the other Taras have told. My parents just liked the name because it was different. I have read in the other girls messages that the name means "tower". I have found that it means "fighting tower", which my family finds quite amusing as I most definitely have a stubborn streak.
Tara C Robison from The USA: My name? My mom found it in a baby book!!!
62Tara Wells from Canada: I asked my parents how I came to be known as Tara, and it is simply the first name my parents could agree apon. Mom wanted Tonya, Dad liked Tanya. Their requirements were only that it be two syllables, also, since it started with a T (they were looking in a book on baby names) they figured it was close enough to the names they had each wanted.
There is another Tara Wells on Tara-page 4 (number 160).
Tara Match from USA: My parents were (and are) huge fans of the movie "Gone With the Wind". I was named for the plantation in the film.
Tara Long from Arkansas-USA: I have asked my parents in the past why the name, Tara. One reply, was that immediately after I was born, and the doctor slapped my back, I screamed so loud that the doctor said, "What a terror." My dad told me that, but I think that he was just giving me a hard time. My mother told me, when I was younger, that I was named after the plantation in Gone with the Wind (which happens to be my favorite book) and the actual geographic location in Ireland (I am a small part Irish).
Tara Marquiss from the USA: Tara is an irish place name. It is the ancient home of the irish kings. Also, in the buddist religion, Tara was a savior goddess!!
Tara Haller from Queensland - Australia: Why my parents named me Tara? Well, it has nothing to do with Gone with the Wind, or Ireland, as many of the other Taras have told. My parents just liked the name because it was different. I have read in the other girls messages that the name means "tower". I have found that it means "fighting tower", which my family finds quite amusing as I most definitely have a stubborn streak.
Tara from The USA: At the time I was born my mothers favorite movie was "Gone with the Wind". Not sure if you knew, but the name of the plantation was Tara, pronounced Tear-a. My parents decided to make it a little different & it is pronounced Tah-ra. I shall ck out your page & link it from mine.
Tara Dirst from IL-USA: My parents had a daughter before me and her name was Lara, so they named me Tara, which rhymes.
Tara C Conte (Princess Tara) from MA - USA: my mother has a really long name, and, when she was chosing names for my brother and I, she wanted short names that we wouldn't have trouble learning and kids couldn't shorten them to stupid nicknames. My father worked with a woman whose name is Tara, and he had always thought it was pretty, so he suggested it. My father's favorite movie is "Gone With The Wind" so I think that might have had something to do with it.
Tara Salk from California-USA: My Dad had said if he had a daughter he wanted her to be named Tara. Maybe it might have been from Gone With The Wind. I'm not sure.
Tara Costa from Kent-USA: I really don't know why my parents named me Tara. They liked the T's and could name me the same thing as my sister. My mom's name is Terri, so that is all behind my name.
Tara Lynda Abel from Florida - USA: My mother gave me this name because I am of Irish descent. Another reason she gave me this name is because it rhymed with a person's name that she thought had a beautiful name.
Tara Dacey from VA - USA: My name is Irish.
75Tara Gabor from The USA: My mother gave me the name Tara at a time when no one else seemed to be using the name. I was always the only one in school classes with the name Tara. My mother was an avid reader and liked the book Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, it is an American classic. All my time growing up I heard of the book and the movie. Tara was the name of the plantation built in the south by Scarlet O'Hara's father (a character in the book). He was Irish and I'm sure the name comes from the holy site in Ireland where the Celtic Kings gathered.
Tara Ghere from Sanger - USA: My parents named me Tara from the movie "Gone With The Wind". Tara was the name of the plantation.....
Tara Jayne from The USA: my dad thought Tara was a pretty name. My mom would of gotten her way and named me Sara, exept this really annoying little brat lived next door to them and her name was Sara, so they didn't name me that :)
Tara Bal from Singapore: Remember the movie Gone with the Wind? They had a Tara Hall. My parents liked that name plus in the east, it means a twinkling star. (It's strange but now I am a "star"of sorts at my radio station where I work as a presenter.) That's how I got my name. This name is very rare in S'pore where I work.
Tara Fronczkowski from New Jersey - USA: well i got my name two ways. my mom and dad were watching the movie gone with the wind and they saw the plantation was named tara. they loved the name but werent sure if they were going to name me that....then they started watching the tv show the avengers....one of the characters was named tara. my parents loved it so much they decided that was going to be by name. also i just found this out recently, before i was born my dad used to smoke these cigarretes named tarragons. so i guess a combination of all these things led to my name being tara. i love my name. my name was almost starr though (i had hippie parents) it was a toss up and im glad they picked tara, or else i would have been known as starr maria fronczkowski!
Tara (Falina 1980) from The USA: I was given this name because my dad didn't like the name Molly and they had to compromise. My mom definatly had to give me an irish name, and this is as irish as you can get, seeing there's a hill in Ireland named Tara.
Tara Oedayraj Singh Varma from The Netherlands, member of the Dutch parliament for the political party "Groen Links" (Green Left) told me she is named after the Hindu-goddess "Green Tara".
Tara Guthrie from The USA: My mother named me Tara simply because she liked the name, no special reason.
Tara Beiter-Fluhr from Colorado-USA: My mother liked the film "Gone With the Wind," and I was born in Georgia. She wanted to name my brother Rhett, but my father wouldn't have it. So he is Scott Ashley instead. We pronounce it "tear-a," as in the movie.
Tara from Hayward California-USA: It's great reading about all the other Tara's. So far the oldest Tara I've met was about 40. It's embarrassing to say but my mom named me Tara after a character in a soap opera. I would much rather say it was after "Gone With the Wind" or a place in Irland; so much more romantic. But, anyway...I digress-- There is also a beloved deity named Tara who is over fourteen centuries old in the Buddhist faith. She is actually one of the most popular of all Buddhist deities. In Tibet she is the central female deity. Tara, her Sanskrit name, comes from the root word tar, to cross. Tara helps one to cross the Ocean of Existence.
Tara Lynch: I am from Irish descent. my mother wanted to name me siobahn, but my grandmother and father said that people wouldn't be able to pronounce it. they agreed on tara. people still can't pronounce it correctly. i pronounce it tah-ra, not teera or tera.
Randy Hirneisen from The USA: Tara is 7 and from my first marriage, she is my only child. I always liked the name Tara. When I was in high school my girlfriend and I planned to name our first child Tara if she was a girl. As it happened we broke up before marrying or having children. But, she went on to marry someone else and named her daughter Tara also. Before my Tara was born I told my wife I would like to name our baby Maya if it's a girl, but she didn't like that name, so we agreed on Tara. I have since that learned many things about both names Tara and Maya, they are simular in many cultures - they both relate to Mother Earth. The Buddhist Tara is a beautiful god-form.
Tara Ketola (I don't really live anywhere, as I have made a lifestyle of travelling): My parents named me Tara after the name of a psychiatric facility in Africa. I did some research and found that in addition to the Green Tara of Tibet, Tara the mother of Buddha, and Tara the Irish hill of kings, Tara was also an African goddess of perfection, or the manifestation of perfection in human form. Talk about an international ego boost!
Tara Elizabeth Haushalter : My mom gave me this name because she loved Gone With the Wind. For a while she wanted to name me Scarlet, for obvious reasons, but my dad talked her out of it, saying that my last name is so long, that it would be hard for me to write. Every so often though, she says "I should have named you Scarlet, not many people could pull that name off, but you could have." I'm glad she didn't, I'd hate to think of the nick names I would have gotten- Scarface? I used to hate my name, but now I really like it. It's easier for guys to remember, i'm not the ususal Jenny or Nicole. The only thing that really irritates me about my name is that people say Tar-a like road tar instead of Sara with a T.
Tara Lynne : My mom named me Tara because both set of grandparents (maternal and paternal) lived near the hills of Tara in Ireland. My full name is TaraLynne; when my mother was looking through baby name books for my middle name she saw one of the many meanings for Tara was "rocky" and for Lynne "waterfall"...Thus "rocky waterfall"=TaraLynne!
Tara Wings Sluyter from NJ-USA: I first realised that my name was something to be proud of when I was doing a report on Ireland in fourth grade. I had heard that my name meant "crag or rock filled high-piont," from the baby names book, and my parents had told me about the mountain and the plantation, "starlight," "palm tree," and (since we're buddist and used to be hindu) I knew about all of the emanations (the green Tara, the white Tara ,the red Tara...) of Avalokiteshvara (in sanskrit) or Lord Chenrezig (in Tibetan) -- the Budda of compassion, but I hadn't realized how truly important it is until I was doing an interview for this report and my fellow Irishman asked me my name and when I told him that it's Tara he stood out of respect.
I was born in 1980, the same year that some popular soap opera had a character named Tara on it. My mother had wanted my name to be original, and wasn't too happy when she saw billions of couch potato Taras popping up. I also receiced my name in honor of my great grandfathers Teddy and Willum (or Willy). That's why my name is Tara Wings, so that I carry on the innitials. I was always teased about my name. Wings speaks for itself. Tara is "a rat" backwards. Everyone pronounces my last name Slut-er. Oh well.
But here is a story for all of you Taras out there to be proud of. There was once a young baddhisattva named Wisdom Moon. One day she was aproached by some monks who were so impressed with her that they prayed for her to be male in her next incarnation. At this, Wisdom Moon "vowed to reincarnate again and again in female form until the ocean of samsaric existence is dry and all beings liberated from sufeering." "Eventually, after many aeons on the englightenment path, she became Tara, the liberator." This story was taken from Llama Surya Das's "The Snow Lion's Turquoise Mane." Another wonderful book to check out is "In Praise of Tara, Songs to the Saviouress" by Martin Wilson.
I hope I have added a little more to our story, and I thank you all for sharing yours with me.
Mr Polish from The USA: My daughter Tara is now 24 years old and I love this name. It was not as popular as I anticipated when she was young, she was usually the only Tara in the class. But now she is meeting more people through work with this name. I loved it because it was Irish (which I am) and at least I got the Irish in because our last name is Polish. Also, I used to be an avid fan of RYAN'S HOPE and there was a character on the show named TARA. Her name is Tara Michele. LOVE IT!!
Tara Lowry from The USA: My mom says that she named me after someone she knew, plus the fact that I'm half Irish. It goes well with my last name, which, I am told, was changed from O'Lowry.
Tara from California - USA: hi my name is tara too!! my mom named me that cause she is 100% irish. i am 12 years old and i live in s.f., which is in california if you didn't know. i like a lot of different things like leonardo dicaprio,soccer,basketball, and many more things!! and for the other Tara's a little info: the name is a hill where gods were, in hindu it is the goddess of compassion, and the name means craig, stone,earth anything like that.
95Tara Piediscalzi from Giddings Middle School (USA): I was named after the plantation in 'gone with the wind' and a 'general hospital' actress in the 70s. My name is pronounced like sara, but with a t; same as in 'gone with the wind.'
