Lorena (name)

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

• Lorena Ayala (born 1984), Spanish/Dutch model
• Lorena Berdún (born 1963), Spanish sexologist
• Lorena Bernal (born 1977), Argentine model and former Miss Spain
• Lorena Blanco (born 1977), Peruvian badminton player
• Lorena Bobbitt (born 1970), former wife of John Wayne Bobbitt
• Lorena Briceño (born 1978), Argentine judoka
• Lorena Gale (1958–2009), Canadian actress
• Lorena Giménez (born 1978), Uruguayan writer born in Sweden
• Lorena (singer) (born 1986), Spanish singer, born Lorena Gómez Pérez
• Lorena Herrera (born 1967), Mexican actress
• Lorena Hickok (1893–1968), American journalist and friend (and possibly lover) of Eleanor Roosevelt
• Lorena Klijn (born 1987), Dutch kickboxer
• Lorena Kloosterboer (born 1962), Dutch Argentine artist and author
• Lorena Ochoa (born 1981), Mexican golfer
• Lorena Rojas (born 1972), Mexican actress and singer
• Lorena Velázquez (born 1937), Mexican actress
• Lorena Wood Parker, a fictional character in the Lonesome Dove series
• Lorena Krasiki, a fictional character in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series and True Blood television show

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