How to write “Kara or Cara” in Korean
카라 ka-ra
What Korean friends call you
- 카라야 ka-ra-ya — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
- 카라 씨 ka-ra-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work
Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.
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Korean spellings of Kara
- 카라 7 (100%)
Korean labels of 7 people named Kara on Wikidata (English-speaking countries), October 2026. Wikipedia leans to the official spelling.
Well-known people named Kara or Cara, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):
- Cara Delevingne — 카라 델러빈
- Kara Mustafa Paşa — 카라 무스타파 파샤
- Cara Black — 카라 블랙
- Cara Buono — 카라 부오노
100,945 babies were named Kara in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 459th most common name.
Block by block
- 카 = ㅋ + ㅏ · 4 strokes
Also in 카: Jessica 제시카 · Kyle 카일 · Lucas 루카스
- 라 = ㄹ + ㅏ · 5 strokes
Also in 라: Nicholas 니콜라스 · Ryan 라이언 · Isabella 이저벨라
카라 takes 9 strokes in all.
More names: Ariel 아리엘 · Roy 로이 · Bethany 베서니 · Clayton 클레이턴 · Ruth 루스
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