What do you think of Alora?

[Salmonisthebestfish]

Alora for DD due August.

And middle name suggestions. Last name is Smith.

You've made your mind up. Call your daughter that. You have your opinions, we have ours.

@SalmonisthebestfishAlora is my daughter’s name. Her middle name is Grace.

The name Alora finds its origins in the African - Bantu culture of Botswana. Derived from the Bantu language, Alora carries the profound meaning of My Dream.

she was a Rainbow baby and given my DH is African it really fits.

Only if it has cultural/family significance, otherwise people will think it's a "try too hard" made up name.

Although another margarine!

I stayed in a village in Spain called Alora.

Doesn't that have an accent on the A?

I was friends with an Alora at secondary school. She was constantly explaining her name…no, it’s not Laura; how to spell it; etc. Some of the boys made fun of her—said that her name was Laura, but she was too stupid to remember it, ie, uh…Laura.

If she speaks Hebrew then she'll know that it's transliteration is El like ELijah or MichaEl or ELiezar or NathaniEL. It's a word for God so it really doesn't get spelled as Al on English.

Lovely name, makes me think of Alora/Elora Danan the baby from Willow.

Alora laughs

RIP Cilla

Because I have a job and believe it or not I’m not sat on MN 24/7 to constantly reply to comments???

https://nameberry.com/b/girl-baby-name-alora

See name history and definitions here

The defensiveness is crazy 😂😭

No they won’t

She claimed I was “ignoring posters” because I had not reposed in less than 24 hours?? I am allowed to defend myself.
I’m not an influencer, I have a life outside of this thread.

Every name is made up. That’s how it works.

Not just that one, like every reply you’ve posted has been so defensive. I get it, you probably didn’t expect so many people to dislike the name so strongly but you don’t actually have to listen to us and you could just use it anyway.

I doubt you’re going to convince anyone that it’s a nice name unless they already think so but if you like it, what does it matter?

So sorry you had to read this thread!

Your daughter has a beautiful name

@Salmonisthebestfish ,nameberry is not a reliable source.

I’m not going to copy and paste the entire internet.
Google the name. Everything says that name either means “the lord is my light” or “my dream”.

Don’t come asking for opinions and then get arsey because you got opinions 🤷🏼‍♀️
If you like it - use it
You clearly don’t care what others think anyway; so on the whole a wasted exercise 😵‍💫

FWIW I also saw the suet reference first glance and prefer “Laura”

Here is what your link said:
Alora feels like a hybrid name – part authentic, part synthetic – maybe because it is. It squeaked onto the Top 1000 in 2017 as part of the trend for girls' names starting and ending with A, and has since increased its popularity, recently entering the Top 200. It is likely a spelling variant of Elora, but also sounds a lot like the Italian word allora, meaning "so, then, therefore, well.*

Not exactly an endorsement, @Salmonisthebestfish

Double LL in Italian but “Allora" is a versatile word used to express various meanings, including "then," "so," "well," or to introduce a new topic or pause for thought.
Not a good choice for a name

Most names have a lovely meaning if you look for it, doesn’t necessarily mean they sound lovely. But “margarine” and “my dream” do sound similar so just go for it if you’re not bothered about people mixing the two up.

You asked what people thought and they told you. Don’t ask the question if you don’t want the answer 🤷🏼‍♀️

Personally, I think it’s pretty and had no idea it was used in Italian. Obviously I have heard of Flora & Atora, but I don’t think these are things she would be teased for.

This ^