Meaning & Story
Of Japanese origin, Nara can mean oak or be related to the ancient capital city of Nara, Japan — also a Welsh word for nearest or closest one, suggesting proximity, warmth, and the particular beauty of an ancient landscape.
Nara is a name with a lovely layered quality — depending on your frame of reference, it evokes ancient Japanese deer parks (the city of Nara is famous for its freely roaming deer), Welsh warmth, or simply the clean, resonant beauty of two open syllables. For a pet with a gentle, dreamy quality — a soft-eyed dog, a graceful cat — Nara has a natural elegance. It's the kind of name that sounds like it came from somewhere beautiful and brings a little of that beauty with it everywhere it goes.