Lora

Where Lora comes from

The dictionaries list Lora as a given name — a female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #173 among girls — 74 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #168
    80 babies named Lora — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1991
    Lora Kitipova born
    Bulgarian volleyball player
  4. 2003
    Lora Hristova born
    Bulgarian biathlete
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura.
Namesakes
  • Lora Hristova · Bulgarian biathlete, born 2003
  • Lora Kitipova · Bulgarian volleyball player, born 1991
  • Lora Aborn · composer, 1907–2005
  • Lora Yakovleva · Russian chess player, 1932–2022
  • Lora Hirschberg · Sound engineer, born 1963

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.