Lura
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 4 babies a year in England and Wales.
Lura by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Lura. In the US, 14 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 230 babies in 1917, so it is a 1910s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Lura
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lura. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Lunamoon5,327 in the US (2017)
- Lucabringer of light3,266 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lauralaurel tree; symbol of victory939 in the US (2017)
- Lukafrom Lucania; variant of Luke177 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lyralyre, a musical instrument643 in England and Wales (2025)
- Larahousehold god; or shining, famous465 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Lura
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