Tarah is a variant spelling of Tara or Terah; in Hebrew tradition Terah is a biblical patriarchal name.
Tarah is an alternative spelling of Tara, a name that draws from one of the most storied places in Irish mythology and history. The Hill of Tara in County Meath was the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland — a ritual and political center dating back to the Neolithic period, associated with the goddess Medb and later with the legendary king Cormac mac Airt. In Old Irish, 'teamhair' (anglicized as Tara) may derive from a word meaning a high, eminent place — a fitting name for a summit both literal and symbolic.
The name gained international currency through Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, in which Tara is the O'Hara family plantation — named to honor the heroine Scarlett's Irish heritage — and becomes the emotional anchor of the entire narrative. Vivien Leigh's portrayal of Scarlett in the 1939 film carried Tara into millions of households across the English-speaking world, and the name surged in popularity through the mid-20th century. The spelling Tarah adds a soft, individualized flourish — an extra 'h' that gives the name a slightly more breath-opened ending.
Beyond Ireland and its diaspora, Tara appears in Sanskrit as a name for a star and for the Buddhist bodhisattva Tara — goddess of compassion and protector of travelers — making it a name of remarkable geographic spread and spiritual depth. The Tarah spelling signals both the Irish roots and a contemporary independence, the sense that this particular bearer arrived at an ancient name by her own path.