A “made up name” that I love

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There’s so many (especially in the US) names that are essentially completely made up and I tend not to like most of them but today I stumbled across Elora on a Facebook baby name page and actually love it. Or could be spelt Allora. I’m fairly sure it’s not a “real” name but think it’s so beautiful. Has anyone ever heard it? General thoughts?

Sounds like fabric conditioner.

My friend has an Elora. I think it's beautiful!

Elora is Hebrew and quite cool and pretty. Check how it sounds with your local accent as could end up being Eh Laura

Allora is Italian for the word ‘then’ so a bit meh imho

I read it in Cilla Black's voice for some unknown reason 😂

It's not made up, I've heard of it a few times. It doesn't sound pretty somehow even though it ticks the boxes for that trend of vowel-heavy, frilly girls' names.

Just fyi Allora is a sort of filler word in Italian. It sort of has the same meaning as "well/ ok then / anyway" in front of a sentence in English.

Sounds beautiful

whatausername I’m surprised I even like it as I tend to favour unisex names for girls. Some of
My favourites are Frankie, Dylan, Alex, Cameron. I don’t tend to me a fan of the “frilly” sounding names at all but this one just caught my eye. I’d never use it though

I know someone who has an Ellora, it's a lovely name

Elora is also the name of the baby princess from the film Willow

Yes Willow! That was my first thought.

I know an Elora, little sister to an Aurelia. I think second child got the nicer name. It's lovely.

I first thought of the movie willow too. The princess was Elora Danan in that so it’s definitely not made up.

I don’t like Allora but I think Elora is lovely.

Definitely spell it Elora

I know someone called elora.

Elora is lovely. I'm really not keen on the 'Unisex' name trend for girls. It never goes the other way e.g a boy called Scarlett

Allora is a no from me.

Elora is ok but it seems to be yet another El name. Laura is nicer.

Elora is nice. Allora is not so great and reminds me of allure which you would not want for a child's name.

My first thought was Elora Danon. It’s lovely.

I know an Elara. Didn't think it was made up, but it may be...? I'm not keen tbh. Think it's a bit if a mishmash of other names. Ellie and Lara. Allora is a bit like Allanah and Laura. I think names which are "made up", unique or extremely uncommon, but sound a lot like other, more mainstream names are a bit blah tbh and lacking in personality.

Where I'm from there is a township called Elora, so I just think of that. I believe it was named after the Ellora caves in India (no idea how they got their name). I think it works well as a girl's name; all the L-heavy names that are around these days certainly aren't my style, but I wouldn't bat an eye at meeting a little Elora.

My sister had a classmate Elora. I remember going to her house to play.

It's lovely. It not a made up name. Besides, all names were made up at some point.

NoemiaElara I tend to agree. I’ve found a lot of MNers though can be incredibly snooty when it comes to baby names. I lived in the US for almost 2 years and a lot of names that were seen as so incredibly normal get absolutely torn to shreds on MN

Aren't all names made up ?