Lorna

Lorna
	Statue of Lorna Doone, the heroine of R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel of the same name
Gender	Feminine

Lorna is a feminine given name. The name is said to have been first coined by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone, which appeared in 1869. Blackmore appears to have derived this name from the Scottish placename Lorn/Lorne.^[1]^[2] In the U.S., according to the 1990 census,^[3] the name ranks 572 of 4275, and as a surname, Lorna ranks 62296 out of 88799. National Lorna day is held annually on 30 April. It originally started in Staffordshire but is now recognised worldwide.

Notable people named Lorna

Lorna Anderson, Scottish soprano
Lorna Aponte, Panamanian rapper
Lorna Arnold, British historian of the UK's nuclear weapons programmes
Lorna Bennett, Jamaican reggae singer
Lorna Bogue, Irish politician
Lorna Boreland-Kelly, British magistrate and member of the Judicial Appointments Commission
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Chicana American poet
Lorna Cordeiro, singer from Goa, India
Lorna Jane Clarkson, Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur and author.
Lorna Crozier, Canadian poet and essayist
Lorna Dewaraja (1929–2014), Sri Lankan historian
Lorna Dixon, Australian Aboriginal custodian and preserver of the Wangkumara language
Lorna Doom, American bassist for punk band The Germs
Lorna Feijóo, Cuban ballet dancer
Lorna Fitzgerald, British actress
Lorna French, British playwright
Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet
Lorna Griffin, American shot putter and discus thrower
Lorna Hill, British author, primarily of children's books
Lorna Kesterson, American politician, first woman to serve as Mayor of Henderson, Nevada
Lorna E. Lockwood, first female Chief Justice of a state supreme court in the US
Lorna Luft, American singer and actress, daughter of Judy Garland and half-sister of Liza Minnelli
Lorna Mahlock, American Brigadier general (one star) in the United States Marine Corps
Lorna Maitland, American actress
Lorna Maseko, South African chef and ballerina
Lorna McNee, Scottish chef
Lorna Norris, British rower
Lorna Nyarinda, Kenyan footballer
Lorna Patterson, American actress
Lorna Raver, American actress who played Sylvia Ganush in the 2009 horror film Drag Me to Hell
Lorna Sage, British literary critic and author
Lorna Cepeda, Colombian actress known for acting in Betty la Fea as Patricia Fernandez
Lorna Simpson, American photographer
Lorna Verdun Sisely (1916–2004), Surgeon, and founder of the Monash Medical Centre Breast Clinic.[4]
Lorna Slater, Canadian-born Scottish politician and co-leader of the Scottish Greens
Lorna Tolentino, Filipino film actress
Lorna Vinden, Canadian wheelchair athlete
Lorna Yabsley, British actress and photographer

Fictional characters

Lorna Doone, protagonist of the 1869 a novel of the same name by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lorna the Jungle Girl, comics character who debuted in 1953
Lorna Dane, alter-ego of the female X-Men member Polaris
Lorna, protagonist of the 1964 Russ Meyer film of the same name
Lorna, principal character in the 2008 Belgian film Lorna's Silence
Lorna Morello, women's prison inmate in Netflix television series Orange Is The New Black
Lorna, a character from the animated miniseries Over the Garden Wall
LORNA, protagonist of Lynn Hershman Leeson's 1983 Art game of the same name
Lorna, younger sister to Maggie Beare in the ABC Television series Mother and Son (1984–1994)
Lorna, comic book character by Alfonso Azpiri, and protagonist of the video game of the same name
Lorna from the MMORPG Mabinogi (game) edutainment series "Lorna & Pan's Fantasy Life!"
Lorna McNessie, the daughter of the Loch Ness Monster from Monster High
Lorna Shore, a character from the comic book series Batman Confidential, who was briefly in a relationship with Bruce Wayne.

Other uses

"Lorna", Allied WWII reporting name for the Japanese Kyushu Q1W airplane
Lorna Shore, American deathcore band from Warren County, New Jersey

References

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 173, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
^ Lorna, YourDictionary.com, retrieved 8 March 2013. This webpage cites: Webster's New World College Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 2010.
^ Think Baby Names: Lorna
^ Heywood, Anne (30 April 2009). "Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916 – 2004)". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 17 March 2024.

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[1] Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A dictionary of first names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 173, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.

[2] Lorna, YourDictionary.com, retrieved 8 March 2013. This webpage cites: Webster's New World College Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 2010.

[3] Think Baby Names: Lorna

[4] Heywood, Anne (30 April 2009). "Sisely, Lorna Verdun (1916 – 2004)". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 17 March 2024.

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