Meaning and background
The story behind Liara
Liara is strongly recognisable from Dr Liara T’Soni in BioWare’s Mass Effect games, first released in 2007. The publisher’s original game page confirms the character, while the name’s linguistic derivation remains unverified. Suggestions that it elaborates Lara or relates to Liora are only theories in a user-submitted naming entry. For this profile, the cultural association is firmer than any proposed translation.
- Origin
- Modern popular-culture use associated with the Mass Effect character Liara T’Soni; deeper etymology unverified. Source
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Liara appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2022 New York City dataset.
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Sources and research notes (1)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — all seven available extract years, retrieved 24 October 2026 — Recorded name spellings in NYC licence-period rows, extract years 2016–2018, 2022–2024 and 2026. Evidence selects one stated year per name. Annual snapshots overlap; never sum them as unique dogs. No national popularity, etymology or owner naming-intent claim.
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