that first appeared in the nineteenth century when similar sounding names like Cora, Dora and Nora were in fashion. Aurelie, sometimes spelled Ora Lee, has been suggested as an explanation
A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling
() First appeared in the nineteenth century when similar sounding names like Cora, Dora and Nora were in fashion. Possibly shortened from Aurelia, sometimes spelled Ora Lee, or Aura Lea in the American civil war song.