Meaning & Story
Named after one of Jupiter's moons, or the Oceanid nymph of Greek mythology, suggesting otherworldly beauty and cosmic elegance.
Elara is a name with genuine celestial credentials: it is the name of one of Jupiter's moons, discovered in 1905, and before that, one of Zeus's mortal lovers in Greek mythology — a woman of extraordinary beauty who became the mother of the giant Tityos. The name has the cool, vowel-rich elegance of space-age naming that is currently having a major cultural moment. Pets named Elara tend to have an ethereal, slightly untouchable quality — beautiful in a way that seems to come from somewhere else entirely. A name that feels both ancient and futuristic.