Comments for the name Isaura

From Greek origin this name means "soft air".

Isaura is the name of the heroine of the Brazilian soap opera, A Escrava Isaura (Isaura the Slave Girl). The soap opera is based on the book of the same name by Bernardo Guimarães.

Isaura is the name of a city in Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities". It is said to be the city of a thousand wells.

I believe the Spanish pronunciation is ee-SOW-rah.

I think it could easily work as an English name, like Lydia, which has similar origins. An English-speaker would probably pronounce it i-ZAWR-ə or ie-ZAWR-ə. [noted -ed]

Izora is likely an English variant of Isaura. Izora was the 517th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 1880. A famous bearer was Izora Armstead (1942–2004), who was half of the '80s American pop group The Weather Girls, best known for their single "It's Raining Men".

The French form of this name, Isaure, has been popular with the upper classes in France during the last couple of decades. [noted -ed]

There is also an uncommon masculine form, Isauro.