Lorena (name)

Lorena is a German, English, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish feminine given name with different origins. It can be used as a version of Lorraine or, alternately, as a Latin version of Lauren.^[1] As a Croatian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish name, it is derived from the Latin Laurentius.^[2] As a German and English name, it is a modern form of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of Hlūdaz and Harjaz).^[3] 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.

Lorena

Pronunciation	Lor ay na, or Lor é na
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Latinized form of "Lauren"
Meaning	Laurel wreath-crowned
Region of origin	Spain, Portugal, England, Brazil, Italy

People

• 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 Delgado Varas (born 1974), Swedish politician
• Lorena Feijóo (born 1970 or 1971), Cuban ballet dancer
• Lorena Gale (1958–2009), Canadian actress
• 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 (1937–2024), Mexican actress
• Lorena Zaffalon (born 1981), Italian synchronised swimmer

Fictional characters

• Lorena Krasiki, in the Southern Vampire Mysteries series and True Blood television show
• Lorena Marquez, in DC Comics
• Lorena Wood Parker, in the Lonesome Dove series