Lora is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lora is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Lora. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lora is #2,617 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 43,268 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lora. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Lora annualy. This means that there have been girls named Lora who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Lora have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Lora even more than any other time: in 1881, it holds its present record of rank #165 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lora was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lora has never been ranked higher than #165. In 2022, she rivaled the 2,737 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 53 girls named Lora were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lora were born, there have been 227 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lora is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lora and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lora, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lora
Lora
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
O
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lora sounds like this:
