Gloria
[ˈɡlɔːrɪə]Meaning
means "glory", from the Latin gloria
Background Story
Gloria comes from the Latin gloria, meaning "glory", and was first used as a name in 19th-century literature. It derives from the Portuguese and Spanish titles of the Virgin Mary, Maria da Glória and María de Gloria. The name was introduced to the English-speaking world by E. D. E. N. Southworth's novel Gloria (1891) and George Bernard Shaw's play You Never Can Tell (1898). It is used in Croatian, Hungarian, Latvian, Portuguese, Serbian and Slovene.
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