Lura

Where Lura comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Lura.

  • Vowel-ended
Lura through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #211 among girls, with 53 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #200
    88 babies named Lura, its best rank.
  3. 1934
    Lura Lynn Ryan born
    First Lady of the U.S. state of Illinois
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,768.
  5. 1975
    Lura born
    Capeverdian singer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Lura · Capeverdian singer, born 1975
  • Lura Lynn Ryan · First Lady of the U.S. state of Illinois, 1934–2011
  • Lura Beam · American writer, 1887–1969

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.