Comments for the name Isaura

Comments for ISAURA:

From Greek origin this name means "soft air".

-- indigopearl  8/1/2006

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.

-- hprocks25  10/25/2007

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

-- Anonymous User  10/9/2009

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]

-- SeaHorse15  8/18/2010

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".

-- SeaHorse15  9/7/2010

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

-- clevelandkentevans  3/28/2012

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