Laoura for a girl?

[FirstTimeMom12]

What do you think? Pronounced as La-oo-ra

Yes so exactly the same as Italian then... I was pretty sure it wasn't Laoora.

When I see Laoora I think...
La-Oora, La-Oora, La-Oora, La-Oora aayyyyyyy. Come on Eileen!

That's not a name!

You just put an 'o' in a real name didn't you

It looks daft and sounds very daft if you pronounce an oo.
I like Lowri though, could you go for that if you want the sound.

It looks like a typo in paper... Sorry, am not keen on the name

ON paper

Laura is a beautiful name, please don't mangle it with added ooos or hhh, it's lovely just as it is.

I actually snorted at this. Come on!

When ds was a baby we went to a class where another child was named Samuel. I asked the mum if he was a Sam or Samuel and pronounced Samuel in the usual (at least round here) way of Sam-yule. She corrected me and said no it is pronounced Sam-you-ell. I thought then I wonder how many times a day he would have to correct the pronounciation of his own name. Just such a tedious thing to inflict on a child.

It's not pronounced La-oo-ra, more like Low(as in cow)-ra.

Just use Laura and pronounce it the Spanish way. Do you have any Spanish heritage?

In theory it should be a pretty name but I agree with other posters that it'll be a real headache to keep explaining its pronunciation.

Had a girl been called this when I was at school the cruel/creative kids would've called her Danny Laoura. This joke is probably lost on anyone under the age of 38.

Gosh OP no. It's not good.

I like it. Pronounced Low-ra. But then I do like Borgen

Round here it's Sam- you- el have never heard samyule.

OP what everyone else says.

In Spanish it's spelled Laura and pronounced Laow-ra. If you're Spanish that's fine. If you're not, then it's plain bonkers and just setting the poor brat up for a lifetime of correcting people.

I've never heard of Sam-yule either. Always Sam-u-el.

Me too. Not massively Sam- u- ELL, but certainly not Sam-yule.