Lura is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Lura in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lura in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Lura by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Lura ranks at #9,265. That means there are 9,264 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lura.
You may not know anyone named Lura, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 26 states are home to women and girls named Lura. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Lura living in one state or another. If your name is Lura and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Tennessee, which has the most people named Lura relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,224 women and girls their names before you hear Lura as an answer just once.
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 Lura 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 Lura 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 Lura, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lura
Lura
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
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
U
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. Lura sounds like this:
