Lara is the Russian short form of Larisa — possibly from the Greek Larissa (a city in Thessaly) or the Latin lares (household gods). Lara Croft — protagonist of the Tomb Raider video games (1996-present) — the most iconic female video-game character in history; the franchise has sold over 95 million units. Lara Logan — American journalist. Top-300 US baby name continuously since 2018.
Lara 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 Lara reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.