Leora

Where Leora comes from

Possibly a variant of the modern Israeli name transliterated as Liora, from Hebrew, ליאורה "my light", or an American contraction of Leonora.
— Wiktionary's entry for Leora
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Leora through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #294 among girls with 28 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1890
    Leora Spellman born
    American actress
  3. 1923
    Leora Dana born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Leora Dana · American actress, 1923–1983
  • Leora Spellman · American actress, 1890–1945
  • Leora Auslander · Professor of European Social History, University of Chicago, born 1959
  • Leora Bilsky · Israeli legal scholar, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.