Baby name
RISING
🇦🇺 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 Elora
/eh · LOR · ah/
Meaning
“Possibly”
Possibly from the Indian heritage site Ellora, or a variant of Eleanor or Flora. Used as a given name in English-speaking countries since at least the 1988 fantasy film Willow.
Nicknames
ellie
Vibe
warm
How it ages.
Fresh and melodic; the fantasy-film origin is forgotten enough that it now simply feels modern.
The cultural moment.
Rising in the US and Australia since the 2010s; fits neatly into the Ellie-Ella-Flora trend.