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 OBE (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

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.