girls:
9.5k births since 1880
#1653 (71st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1919
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
9.5k births since 1880
#2753 (64th percentile)
The name Lura is the #2,753 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,546 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 64.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,653 (71.1% percentile) for all time with 9,541 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1919.
Lura has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1919 for boys). Birth data for Lura is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lura has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lura reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 35.9% percentile (ranked #370) with 205 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 620 births per million (ranked 29.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lura ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lura reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #535) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1919.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lura".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lura.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lura", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Lura.
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lura. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Lura is pronounced as LOO-ruh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LYOO-ruh, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Lura? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Lura. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Lura, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L UH1 R AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker