Lorna (name)
Lorna is an English and Scottish female given name .
variants
- Woman: Lornah
- Male: Lorne
Origin and Distribution
Lorna is a feminine form of the name Lorne , which the author Richard Doddridge Blackmore invented for the main character of his novel Lorna Doone (1869). It was mainly this novel that established Lorna as a woman's name.
name day
Since there is no saint of this name, the name day can be celebrated on All Saints' Day ( November 1st ).
Name bearer
- Lorna (* 1983), Panamanian singer and rapper
- Lorna Arnold (1915–2014), British historian
- Lorna Boothe (* 1954), British hurdler
- Lorna Bracewell (* 1984), American musician
- Lorna Byrne (born 1953), Irish writer
- Lorna Chávez , Costa Rican model
- Lorna Crozier (* 1948), Canadian writer
- Lorna Dyer (* 1945), American figure skater
- Lorna Gray (1917-2017), American actress
- Lorna Griffin (* 1956), American athlete
- Lorna Hodgkinson , Australian educator
- Lorna Ishema (* 1989), Ugandan-German actress
- Lorna Luft (* 1952), American singer and actress
- Lorna Maitland (born 1943), American actress
- Lorna Marshall (1898–2002), American ethnologist
- Lorna Paz , Colombian actress
- Lorna Raver (born 1943), American actress
- Lorna Simpson (* 1960), American artist
- Lorna Utz , Australian tennis player
- Lorna Vevers (* 1981), Scottish curler
- Lorna Volare , Australian actress
- Lorna Want , British actress
- Lorna Wing (1928-2014), British psychiatrist
Variant of Lornah
- Lornah Kiplagat (* 1974), Dutch long-distance runner