Lura

Where Lura comes from

Lura hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #211 among girls — 53 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1885
    Peak, #200
    88 babies named Lura — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    Lura Lynn Ryan born
    First Lady of the U.S. state of Illinois
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,768.
  5. 1975
    Lura born
    Capeverdian singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lura · Capeverdian singer, born 1975
  • Lura Lynn Ryan · First Lady of the U.S. state of Illinois, 1934–2011
  • Lura Beam · American writer, 1887–1969

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.