Laura

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Laura is a female first name and a short form of Laurentia , the counterpart to the male Latin first name Laurentius , which means “from the city of Laurentum ”, but was reinterpreted to “ laurel wreath ” based on laurus “laurel ”.

name day

distribution

The extraordinary popularity of the name since the end of the Middle Ages is due to the influence of the Italian poet Francesco Petrarca , who in his Canzoniere sings about the love for an unattainable lover called Laura, who has become unreachable even through death from the middle of the work, and through this work the Love poetry and love conception had a lasting impact throughout Europe for the following centuries.

After the name was given less often in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, it experienced a sharp rise in popularity at the end of the 1970s. Since the 1990s it has often been among the ten most frequently given female first names.

variants

Well-known namesake

Laure

As a family name

Literature and film

  • Laura , name of the lover sung about by Francesco Petrarca in his collection of poems, Canzoniere
  • Laura -Oden of the young Friedrich Schiller
  • Laura , feature film from 1944
  • Laura , title of a television film from 1962 with Hildegard Knef in the title role.
  • Laura and Luis , name of a six-part television series produced by ZDF in 1989
  • Laura's star , title of a picture book series and the film of the same name
  • Laura Leander , main character in a series of novels by Peter Freund

Known songs

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics on "Popular first names"