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Where I live, it's never been common so it can't be dated. Which is good! Lorraine, for instance, is dated: it was quite well used in the 1940s/50s.

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I love Laura much more than most names. I could never use it, because it would be trite if used along with Beatrice (Italian Literature 101!), which was my mother's name and which I gladly used. But, given a different mother ...