Alora is a given name and surname of various origins. As an English given name, it is sometimes considered a modern spelling variant of the name
Elora. Alora is a Spanish word meaning "at that hour".
Álora
Álora is a town and municipality in southern Spain in the province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Located c. 40 km from Málaga, on the right bank of the river Guadalhorce and on the Córdoba-Málaga railway, within ...
is also a town in southern
Spain
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Usage
It was in use as early as 1940, when Dorothy Lyma, an aspiring actress in Hollywood who had a
rumored affair with
Frank Sinatra, used the stage name Alora Gooding. It has been among the 1,000 most used names for newborn girls in the United States since 2018 and among the top 300 names for newborn American girls since 2022. It has been among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in England and Wales since 2021.
Fictional characters
*Alora, a character in the video game ''
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy''
*Alora, a character in the 1978 film ''
The Big Fix''
*Alora, a character in the 1999 film ''
Walking Across Egypt
''Walking Across Egypt'' is a 1999 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Paul Tamasy, based on Clyde Edgerton's novel of the same name. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark ...
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Notes
Feminine given names
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