Girl
Lora
As a girl's name, Lora traces back to Latin, where it is understood to mean "Latin laurus, laurel". It has not kept pace since its 1960s peak. In the current registry, it is a name plenty of people share. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
EtymologyVariant of Laura
LatinLatin "laurus" – "laurel"
Births by decade
1900s
1,636
1910s
3,025
1920s
3,411
1930s
2,900
1940s
3,140
1950s
6,310
1960s
14,223
1970s
7,778
1980s
4,135
1990s
1,685
2000s
852
2010s
466
Peaked in the 1960s · 49,561 total U.S. births since 1900