First name origin & meaning: Latin: Glory First name variations: Glora, Glorya, Glory, Gloriana, Glorianne, Glorea, Gloriah, Gloriela, Gloriella, Gloryah Last name origins & meanings:
- metronymic from the female personal name
Gloria.
- according to Morlet, an occupational nickname
for a singer, from ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’, part of the mass.
- A family named Gloria from Rouen was in Quebec city by 1652;
another, also called Desrochers, from Angoulême, was in Repentigny,
Quebec, by 1694.
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