Lorena

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lorna in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 10 more and Lorraine in FR France, GT Guatemala, PA Panama.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Lorena is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name699K records spelled Lorena23 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Loreña, Loréna, Lörënä, Lorèna, Lõřénå

• a separate given name62K records spelled Lorena3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Ecuador

  Also written Loreña, Lôrena

• Croatian given name47K records spelled Lorena27 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Russia, Philippines

  Languages: Croatian, Russian, Czech

  Also written Лорена, Лорэна, Loreña, Loréna, Лярэна

• Indonesian given name8.0K records spelled Lorena5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, United States

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Loreña, Lörënä, Loréna

• Albanian given name5.9K records spelled Lorena2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, United States, Italy, Spain

  Also written Lôreñâ

65 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Lorena 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.

• Latinate elaboration of the girl’s name pLoren.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• In Portuguese, Lorraine (a cultural region, former administrative region, and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est region)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Spanish, Del francés Lorraine; región de Francia, antigua Lotaringia, 'tierra de Lotario'.

  as a name·Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

• que lleva la luz, referido a Venus, la Natural de Lorena, región de Francia

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Swedish, Lorena är en spansk och italiensk form av Laurena som är en bildning till → Laura. Se även → Lauren.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Silvia Manríquezb. 1953MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
• Lorena Galeb. 1958CACanadian actress (1958-2009)
• Lorena Herrerab. 1967MXMexican actress, singer and model
• Lorena Rojasb. 1971MXMexican singer and actress (1971-2015)
• Lorena Berdún Villegasb. 1973ESSpanish actress
• Lorena Ochoab. 1981MXMexican professional golfer
• Lorena Kotōb. 1985JPJapanese actress
• Lorena Mirandab. 1991ESSpanish water polo player
• Lorena Wiebesb. 1999NLDutch cyclist
• Kylie Cantrallb. 2005USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,070 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lorena?

We estimate roughly 460 thousand people bear Lorena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Lorena have the most bearers?

Lorena is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled lorena.

How common is Lorena compared with other names?

In Argentina, Lorena is the 87th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.

Is Lorena a male or female name?

Lorena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Lorena mean?

Recorded meaning: Spanish equivalent of }Lauren (see main dictionary).