Lorna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Invented by R.D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869); sometimes found in Ireland (Irish first names)
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 52 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
Lorna is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 36th most common given name. Lorna is also written לורנה in Hebrew, Лорна in Cyrillic and Λορένα in Greek.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 600(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lorna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #397 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 597 (inferred from the name graph)
253,461 named Lorena, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lorna in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Cyrillic and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lorena in AR Argentina, MX Mexico, BR Brazil and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Invented by R.D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869); sometimes found in Ireland.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Irish first names
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lorna, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lorna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #300 | 253,461as Lorena | 1 in 835 | 253K | Lorena | 191 |
| MX Mexico | #108 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | 2.2K | Lorena | 233 |
| PH Philippines | #65 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 597 | — | Lorna | 115 |
| AR Argentina | #80 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 391 | 64 | Lorena | 163 |
| CO Colombia | #56 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 521 | 34 | Lorena | 182 |
| CL Chile | #89 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 443 | 2 | Lorena | 145 |
| SV El Salvador | #71 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 471 | — | Lorena | 63 |
| PY Paraguay | #36 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 593 | — | Lorena | 58 |
253,461 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lorna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Invented by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone (1869), child captive of the outlawed Doones on Exmoor, who is eventually discovered to be in reality Lady Lorna Dugal, daughter of the Earl of Dugal. Blackmore seems to have derived the name from the Scottish place name Lorn(e) (Gaelic Latharna), a LORNE territory in Argyll. The given name is now popular in Scotland.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Aname invented by R.D. Blackmore for his novel Lorna Doone (1869). It is sometimes found in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
In English, A female given name from Scottish Gaelic of mostly Scottish usage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Lucea, Lucee, Lucet, Luceta, Lucete, Alude a una región de Escocia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In German, in den i96oer-Jahren entlehnter weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lorna Wingb. 1928GBBritish autism researcher (1928–2014)
- Lorna Luftb. 1952USAmerican television, stage and film actress and singer
- Lorna Pattersonb. 1956USAmerican actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)85 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 52 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lorna mean, and where does it come from?
- Invented by R.D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869); sometimes found in Ireland. Recorded by Irish first names.
- Is Lorna a male or female name?
- Lorna is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as female; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Lorna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 253 thousand people named Lorena, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Mexico, Philippines, Argentina and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lorna?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 253,461 people named Lorena in 2022, about 1 in 835 residents.
- How common is Lorna compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lorna is the 300th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lorna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lornaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lorna” — ranked 121st in Brazil (IBGE, 2022). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.