Loredana

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Loredana is a feminine given name .

Origin and meaning

The name probably comes from the Venetian family name Loredan , which means "coming from (the place) Loreo ".

The name was used and popularized by the French writer George Sand in her novel Mattea (1833), and later by the Swiss-Italian writer Luciano Zuccoli in his novel L'amore di Loredana (1908).

Name bearers

Individual evidence

  1. Patricia Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A concise dictionary of first names, Oxford University Press , 1997, ISBN 0198600941