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Question:ORA (1)

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English
Perhaps based on Latin oro "to pray".

ORA (2)

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Jewish

Other Scripts: ?????? (Hebrew)
Means "light" in Hebrew.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ORA (1)

Gender: Feminine & Masculine

Usage: English
Perhaps based on Latin oro "to pray".

ORA (2)

Gender: Feminine

Usage: Jewish

Other Scripts: ?????? (Hebrew)
Means "light" in Hebrew.

Your last name is English.

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,
Johnson Name Meaning and History
English and Scottish: patronymic from the personal name John. As an American family name, Johnson has absorbed patronymics and many other derivatives of this name in continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
hope this helps.

Are you looking for a particular Ora Johnson?

Johnson is English and means, literally, John's son.
The name Ora is a complete name - it used to be fairly popular but you rarely find it in modern times.

Johnson is Nordic ==> Anglo ==> " John's son" and extremely common in usage.

Ora is a first name