Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Lawra is a romanization of Лаура. Лаура comes from Russian, and ultimately from Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1984. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lawra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1984
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1984. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lawra’s family of names
Lawra has a related form in Laura. In Kazakh usage, Lawra is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Лаура.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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