In ancient Rome, laurels meant winning or the desire to do well in music, poetry, or sports. On National Laura Day, buy a bouquet of laurel and wear it around your neck or head with pride.
National Laura Day 2023: This year, December 23 is National Laura Day. In Latin American and English-speaking countries, girls are given the name Laura. There are over 850,000 people in the U.S. with the name Laura, making it number 61 on the list of the 100 most popular names. In the late 1800s, it was a popular choice for girls’ names, coming in at number 17 in 1880. Laura’s weight had dropped to 100 by the 1930s and 1940s. The name got as high as tenth place in 1969, but then it slowly started to go down. In the 1980s, stars like Laura Dern helped bring the name back into style.
Laura is a girl’s name that comes from the Latin word for “bay laurel plant,” which was a sign of success, honor, and fame in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Laura stood for power and success. The first well-known person with this name was Saint Laura of Cordoba. Laura started as a nun and worked her way up to become an abbess. Her name was Mary of Cordoba, and she died in 864 AD. In Chile, the Saint Laura Stadium is named after her, and a day is set aside to remember her.
For her songs “Gloria” and “Self Control,” American singer-songwriter Laura Ann Branigan is best known. She began her career as a backup singer for Leonard Cohen. She worked as a waitress to pay for her time at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. The hit song “Gloria” that she sang in 1982 was a cover of a song by Umberto Tozzi. The version by Branagan went platinum and stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 lists for 36 weeks. She had a song called “Self Control” that was number one in Canada and Germany in 1984. In the US, it got to number four. These days, “Gloria” by Branigan is linked to the NHL team St. Louis Blues, who played it when they won the Stanley Cup in 2019.
As Dr. Ellie Sattler in “Jurassic Park,” actress and director Laura Dern has won some film awards. Dern came into the public eye at a young age. She was born in 1967 to stars Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. She was Miss Golden Globe when she was 15 years old, and her first role was as an extra in the movie “White Lightning,” which starred her mother. Dern will play Dr. Sattler again in “Jurassic World Dominion” in 2022.
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Get a wreath of leaves.
In ancient Rome, laurels meant winning or the desire to do well in music, poetry, or sports. On National Laura Day, buy a bouquet of laurel and wear it around your neck or head with pride.
Take a listen to Laura Branigan
Sarah Branigan writes catchy songs and has a beautiful voice. Play her music and dance away!
Put out a candle
National Laura Day is a good time to light a candle for Saint Laura. Please be quiet for a moment to remember her.
Laura, who wrote a great book
Ingalls Wilder, who wrote “Little House on the Prairie,” began writing when she was forty years old.
Laura, who was born to be in the show
Romanus Linney was a playwright, and his daughter Laura Linney was an actor.
Laura, who was in a show
In the show “Love, Janis,” Laura Branigan played Janis Joplin.
Laura, who made a hero happy
Martin Scorsese said that Laura Dern would be a great actor one day after seeing her work as an extra in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”
The hit song
“How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?” was written by Laura Branigan and Michael Bolton together.
It’s a name that never gets old.
We like to think of the name Laura as old-fashioned. It gets better over time, like “fine wine.”
The name sounds good to the ears.
It could be the syllables or the way you say it. She sounds nice; that’s all we know.
It means success.
Everyone wants to be linked to a good name. Laura is a symbol of success and wealth in everything she does.
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | December 23 | Saturday |
| 2024 | December 23 | Monday |
| 2025 | December 23 | Tuesday |
| 2026 | December 23 | Wednesday |
| 2027 | December 23 | Thursday |
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