Lorena (name)

Lorena
Pronunciation Lor ay na, or Lor é na or Lor ee na
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Latinized form of "Lauren"
Meaning Laurel wreath-crowned
Region of origin Spain, Portugal, England, Brazil, Italy
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Lorena is a feminine given name with different origins. It can be used as an Italian, Portuguese and Spanish version of Lorraine or, alternately, as a Latin version of Lauren.[1] As used in the United States, it may have come from the song title of a popular 1856 song by Rev. Henry D.L. Webster and Joseph Philbrick Webster, who are said to have derived the name from an anagram of the name Lenore, a character in Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem The Raven.[1] In Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara's daughter with Frank Kennedy was named Ella Lorena in reference to the song Lorena. Frank G. Slaughter wrote a book called Lorena in which the character was also called Reeny hence the alternative pronunciation of Lor ee na.

People with the given name Lorena

Notes

Lorena Kićinbaći