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Lorna is a modern Grammatical gender#Personal names|feminine given name . The name may have been first coined by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone , which appeared in 1869. http://www.yourdictionary.com/lorna Webster's New World College Dictionary
The name Lorna is most popular in Scotland and is often regarded as the feminine version of the masculine given name Lorne , which itself comes from the area of Lorne, Scotland .
In the U.S. , according to the 1990 census, http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Lorna Think Baby Names: Lorna the name ranks 572 of 4275. As a surname , Lorna ranks 62296 out of 88799.
People
Lorna (rapper)|Lorna Aponte , Panama nian rapper who recorded the popular song "Papi Chulo (Te Traigo el Mmmm)"
Lorna Arnold , British historian of the UK's nuclear weapons programmes
Lorna Boreland-Kelly|Dame Lorna May Boreland-Kelly , UK|British magistrate and member of the Judicial Appointments Commission
Lorna Dee Cervantes , Chicana American poet
Lorna Cordeiro , a singer from Goa , India
Lorna Crozier , Canadian poet and essayist
Lorna Fitzgerald , British actress
Lorna Goldberg , American social worker, psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and researcher of cults
Lorna Goodison , Jamaican poet
Lorna Griffin , American shot putter and discus thrower
Lorna Hill , British author, primarily of children's books
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 Raver , American actress who played Sylvia Ganush in the 2009 horror film Drag Me to Hell
Lorna Sage , British literary critic and author
Lorna Simpson , American photographer
Lorna Tolentino , Filipina film actress
Lorna Yabsley , British actress and photographer
Other uses
Lorna Doone , 1869, a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Lorna, the Barbarella (comic book)|Barbarella -like comic book character by Alfonso Azpiri which features some fun-poking at Star Wars . She is also the protagonist of the video game of the same name.
Lorna Dane, alter-ego of the female X-Men member Polaris (comics)|Polaris
Lorna, the younger sister to Margaret "Maggie" Beare in Mother and Son
Lorna (film)| Lorna , a 1964 film by Russ Meyer starring Lorna Maitland
Lorna, principal character in the 2008 Belgian film '' Lorna's Silence
Lorna from the MMORPG Mabinogi (game) edutainment series "Lorna & Pan's Fantasy Life!"
Little Lorna from Juilio Sinope 's Erotic Comic Book "The Adventures of Little Lorna" a graphical random serial in which a young heroine is thrown into sexually compromising situations.
The Kyushu Q1W used by the Imperial Japanese Navy had the reporting name "Lorna"
References
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