Talk:Lara (name)

Notables with the name

Brewcrewer (talk · contribs) reduced the accompanying article from 930 bytes to 148, summarizing

silly to have a list of people with such a common name. there's no list of people named John

I'm reverting since it seems that opinion is just off the top of one user's head: there are 2,604 articles in Category:Given names. Rather than look at the first 10 (fearing that

1. Aadu
2. Aaron (given name)
3. Abba (disambiguation)
4. Abban
5. Abbas
6. Abbas I
7. Abbas II
8. Abbo
9. Abdellah
10. Abdi

my not be typical, i'm going to the last letter before the middle of the alphabet, and going to the top of the "next 200" of the presumably ~ 13 page list, where the 1st 10 are

1. Mughira (name) is Arabic, where all names (of males, at least) are given names of the person's father or son, or place or tribe names, connected by prepositions and maybe articles; two of these have "Mughira" in those someone-else role and one functioning as close to a given name as Arabic tradition recognizes
2. Mulgrew, 2 surnames one given
3. Muriel, 4 entries for given names of real people
4. Murphy (disambiguation), in addition to Murphy Brown, one real person so given-named
5. Murtaza 5 real people with precisely that given name
6. Murtuza 2 entries for given names of real people
7. Mussa 5 entries with Mussa is neither the first nor last of the names; 3 African, 2 apparently SW Asian
8. Myles (disambiguation) 5 entries for given names of real people
9. Myra (disambiguation) 2 entries for given names of real people
10. Myron (given name) only current real-person entry is the putative first instance, an ancient Greek sculptor

The reasoning given, based on the hardest or one of the hardest handful to take on, is fallacious.
IMO, articles in this style are not new, but are endorsed by at least a de facto consensus; there is likely to evidence at WP:WikiProject Anthroponymy of a formal consensus, and if not, that is the place to start in figuring out where to get a consensus wider than this one article.
(BTW, it's not relevant, but someone is bound to think it is, so i'll mention that i have opposed having such lists anywhere, but the effort put into some of them and the template infrastructure invested in them make me believe that they have become the object of a consensus. And my only reason for creating such pages is to get the lists off of Dab pages, since users are so unlikely to expect to find, e.g. Meyer Lansky at (or via) Meyer; entries on Dabs for real people given-named Meyer obstruct access to the entries for people surnamed Meyer, fic-chars given-named Meyer but with unstated or generally unnoted, companies named "Meyer something", etc.)
Thus i am rv'g the removal, based on the de facto consensus i perceive.
--Jerzy•t 23:53, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

• Yes, the reason was "off the top of my head," but it makes sense (and it is easier to understand). In regard to this "de facto concensus," please. That just won't work. The above list that you provided is irrelaent to my this page and my point. I might agree that rare names can provide a small list of names in the article about the name. But to provide a list of all people named David, Jack, Paul, is utterly ridiculous, time consuming, and space consuming. It serves no informative purpose whatsoever. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 20:23, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

I have to disagree on the basis that it is not unusual to only know part of someone's name and not be certain whether it is given or sur. Thmazing (talk) 17:35, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

The Spanish name is not from Russian

It goes back many centuries in Spain. See also [1]. I'm not sure what the etymology of the Spanish name is, however I have found no indications of the Spanish name being from Russian. A is putting the smack down (talk) 00:25, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

problem with the Infobox: it is also a surname. Kind of common. There is even an anchorwoman at KABC-TV news in L.A. with the surname [2]. A is putting the smack down (talk) 00:35, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Bomben name

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