Bára is the Faroese and Icelandic word for "wave" — particularly a single ocean wave. The Faroese are descended from Norse settlers of the 9th century.
Bára is widely used in the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
Bára does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bára reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.