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Lura

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lura has been given to 9,555 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 230 recorded.

Babies named Lura, 2024

1 in 371,000

Lura over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lura: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lura means

Lura is a given name.

The naming story behind Lura

Wikidata records Lura as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q96051748, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,550 girls were recorded with the name Lura between 1880 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 230 in 1917; its best national rank was #202 in 1885.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lura between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1919; its best national rank was #4,550 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lura?

Lura had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 180,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lura sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lura. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Luras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lura was born before 1923 — so the typical Lura is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,022
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 17.1% of all recorded uses (1,629).

Is Lura rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (230)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#202
1885

Spellings of Lura

Lura is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 16.5% against Lura's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lura is used

Across 1910–2025, Lura was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 37,221 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 10,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 10,000
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 12,500
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  6. 6Alabama1 in 14,286
  7. 7Arkansas1 in 14,286
  8. 8Missouri1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lura has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lura around the world

Where Lura ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Lura

People whose public names include Lura, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lura in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lura. Linked forms have their own page here.

LoraLauraLurLurra

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lura by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#202
1885
Peak year
1917
230 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
9,550
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,550
1919
Peak year
1919
5 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lura

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AuraMauraNuraAmouraNouraAzuraSuraEuraAlauraSakuraIsauraAluraRosauraAlluraLurlineLureneLurenaLurdesLurleneAlouraLureeLouraDuraUra

Names with a curve like Lura

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lura, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LinnieAlvinaDovieOnaLeliaDessieVinaGertieVestaFannyAlphaHester

Sibling names for Lura

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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