Laura is from the Latin laurus — the bay-laurel tree from which the victors' crown was woven in ancient Rome. Laura Bush (born 1946) — First Lady of the United States 2001-2009; former librarian and teacher; founded the Laura Bush Foundation for America's Libraries (2002), which has distributed millions of books to schools across 47 US states. Laura Branigan ("Gloria" 1982). Laura Mvula — British soul singer.
Laura does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Laura reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.