Ora
Barely 26 Polish women carry it, and no girl has been given it in Poland this century. Latin at root, from a word for "light": most Poles have never met an Ora.
Ora Pronunciation
Ora is pronounced O-rah (/ˈɔra/).
What Ora means
Where Ora comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ora comes from Latin, and it means light. Short and plainly. The name found a lasting home among Jewish families, where light carries its own long set of meanings, from festival lamps to the first word spoken over creation.
The Latin root ties Ora to the same family that gives us words for dawn and for the golden edge of things. Its meaning stays fixed across those associations: światło, light, the thing that lets you see.
On a Polish school register the name sits in two syllables, easy to read aloud, easy to spell. There is no diminutive to soften it and no masculine twin to answer it. Ora stands as itself.
Whoever carries Ora carries a word that means light.
How many people are named Ora
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Ora. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8363 among female names.
Ora as a middle name
Ora is a first name for 26 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3793rd, between Ona (5) and Orianna (5).
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#3791 Omonigho5
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#3792 Ona5
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#3793 Ora5
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#3794 Orianna5
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#3795 Orysia5