Leora

Where Leora comes from

Possibly a variant of the modern Israeli name transliterated as Liora, from Hebrew, ליאורה "my light", or an American contraction of Leonora.
— Wiktionary's entry for Leora
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #294 among girls with 28 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1890
    Leora Spellman born
    American actress
  3. 1923
    Leora Dana born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Leora Dana · American actress, 1923–1983
  • Leora Spellman · American actress, 1890–1945
  • Leora Auslander · Professor of European Social History, University of Chicago, born 1959
  • Leora Bilsky · Israeli legal scholar, born 1967

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.