Elora

A fantasy name come to earth, Elora first entered American awareness through Ron Howard's 1988 film Willow, where it belonged to a prophesied infant princess. The name has no single etymological home but echoes the Greek Eleonora and the Hebrew Elora meaning the Lord is my light, along with a Canadian village of the same name tucked along a river gorge. It joined the U.S. top 1000 around 2016 and has climbed steadily since. Three lilting syllables, liquid L leading and trailing, the O round at the center. Elora reads storybook without reading precious, imaginative without losing its footing.