Lora
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɔɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lora is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Laos it is the 25th most common given name.
- CACanada≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
- LALaos≈1 in 15K
- USUnited States1 in 489as Laura
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lora itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 452 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
679,856 named Laura, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laura in ES Spain, FI Finland, LA Laos and Lara in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German form of Laura, occasionally also used in the English-speaking world.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lora is read(measured from records)
Lora is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.0%
from a pet form of the personal name Lordnt (see Roland).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lora counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #782 | 679,856as Laura | 1 in 489 | 679K | Lora | 452 |
| BR Brazil | — | 484,191as Laura | 1 in 437 | 484K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 259,183as Laura | 1 in 193 | 259K | Laura | 55 |
| PL Poland | — | 82,455as Laura | 1 in 464 | 82K | — | 2 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 47,856as Laura | 1 in 353 | 48K | Lara | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 26,591as Laura | 1 in 210 | 34K | Laura | 9 |
| DK Denmark | — | 19,337as Laura | 1 in 304 | 19K | Lora | 21 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 15,896as Laura | 1 in 321 | 16K | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 9,485as Laura | 1 in 198 | 9.5K | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | #825 | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 8K | 19 | Lora | 141 |
| LA Laos | #25 | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Laura | 22 |
679,856 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling laura. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lora is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German form of Laura, occasionally also used in the English-speaking world.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Italian, da Laura
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, redução coloquial de Eleonora ou variante de Laura.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, forme abrégée de Laura; du latin laurus « laurier ». Fête: 10 août, saint Laurent.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jane Addamsb. 1860USnot in their usual nameAmerican feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)
- Laura Ingalls Wilderb. 1867USnot in their usual nameAmerican children's writer, diarist, and journalist (1867-1957)
- Gloria Vanderbiltb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)
- Laura Antonellib. 1941ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (1941-2015)
- Laura Bushb. 1946USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Laura Harringb. 1964MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and Miss USA 1985
- Laura Dernb. 1967USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and producer (born 1967)
- Winona Ryderb. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Emily Bluntb. 1983GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1983)
- Amber Heardb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 95 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.1K | #4,798 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7K | #5,001 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.5K | #834 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.5K | #833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5K | #6,287 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 72 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #38,187 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 61 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 29 | #2,964 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lora come from?
- German form of Laura, occasionally also used in the English-speaking world. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Lora have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 680 thousand people named Laura, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Lora a male or female name?
- Lora is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Lora?
- In the etymology graph, Laura, Ellen and Nora are forms of the same name in other languages; Lori, Laurie and Loretta are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Lora?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɔɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lora mean?
- In English, A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura.
- How common is the name Lora?
- In the United States, the national register counted 679,856 people named Laura in 2020, about 1 in 489 residents.
- How common is Lora compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lora is the 782nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lora” — the 782nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.