Lorna

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Lorna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 87th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Invented by R.D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869); sometimes found in Ireland.

rarermore common
  • COColombia1 in 305◐
  • ARArgentina1 in 358
  • CLChile1 in 442

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈460K ●

across 8 countries

#330 ●

of 16M given names

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
410 ●

3.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 769 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

LorenaLatin · Spanish●3.8M records
לורנהHebrew · Hebrew●1.3K records
ᲚორენაGeorgian · Georgian●338 records
ЛорнаCyrillic · Russian●23 records
ลอร์นาThai · Thai●5 records
ΛορέναGreek · Greek●2 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lorena in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 9 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●

Invented by R.D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869); sometimes found in Ireland.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Lorna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#871,906,5691.2M rec.—64Lorena154
MX Mexico#111505,313374K rec.—2.2KLorena221
BR Brazil#192253,461△70K rec.1 in 835253KLorena189
PH Philippines#58223,346203K rec.——Lorna108
CO Colombia#52204,20849K rec.—34Lorena173
CL Chile#91203,72014K rec.—2Lorena138
US United States#582107,405549K rec.1 in 3.1K107KLorna410
PE Peru#334101,29577K rec.——Lorena100
VE Venezuela#28688,70351K rec.——Lorena80
GB United Kingdom#34782,53366K rec.—4Lorna212
ES Spain#9562,508157K rec.1 in 80063KLorena197
EC Ecuador#15321,198△2.3K rec.1 in 79721KLorena91

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English548K77%
  • Spanish40K6%
  • Swahili25K4%
  • 18K2%
  • French12K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English547,76777%
Spanish39,5896%
Swahili25,2234%
17,5802%
French11,5692%

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◐

Lorna is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name70K records spelled Lorna6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Lórna

53 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●

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.

Over time●

0200400600800190019502000758 · 1957

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Lorna in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2025
Yearrecords
18856
18886
18895
18918
189212
189317
189414
189519
189620
189724
189828
189921
190030
190126
190226
190331
190438
190531
190638
190741
190841
190951
191051
191185
1912104
1913109
1914135
1915204
1916218
1917211
1918218
1919222
1920234
1921277
1922249
1923364
1924304
1925334
1926295
1927320
1928348
1929296
1930328
1931390
1932386
1933324
1934309
1935329
1936290
1937313
1938330
1939368
1940416
1941464
1942518
1943441
1944388
1945428
1946426
1947475
1948432
1949440
1950463
1951514
1952662
1953721
1954707
1955740
1956705
1957758
1958688
1959691
1960678
1961592
1962561
1963484
1964524
1965510
1966360
1967368
1968280
1969295
1970234
1971207
1972173
1973125
1974144
1975133
1976104
197799
197897
197980
198084
198193
198276
198391
1984108
1985112
1986116
198780
198877
198982
199068
199172
199277
199392
199479
199570
199687
199762
199862
199978
200069
200180
200264
200381
200466
200569
200667
200751
200846
200938
201033
201128
201247
201339
201434
201536
201628
201731
201837
201945
202053
202136
202240
202342
202450
202556

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 138 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Lorna Wing, b. 1928Lorna Raver, b. 1943Lorna Heilbron, b. 1948Lorna Luft, b. 1952Lorna Cook, b. 1953Lorna Patterson, b. 1956Lorna Simpson, b. 1960Lorna Tolentino, b. 1961Lorna Cepeda, b. 1970Lorna Fitzgerald, b. 1996

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●

Attested in 83 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Lorna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202026K#1,364
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20241.3K#2,915
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—356#1,042
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025313#304
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—267#21,213
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022223—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—222#23,511
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—214#4,578
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—205#4,005
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—203#8,927
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021176—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—171#5,860

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 837 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lorna?
We estimate roughly 460 thousand people bear Lorna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Lorna have the most bearers?
Lorna is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled lorena.
How common is Lorna compared with other names?
In Argentina, Lorna is the 87th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Lorna a male or female name?
Lorna 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 Lorna mean?
Recorded meaning: Invented by R.D. Blackmore for Lorna Doone (1869); sometimes found in Ireland.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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” — the 87th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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