Lorena
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Lorraine (a cultural region, former administrative region, and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est region)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/loɾena/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lorena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 36th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 411(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 502
- CLChile≈1 in 579
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lorena itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #397 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 463 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 411 (inferred from the name graph)
253,461 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lorna in PH Philippines.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Spanish equivalent of }Lauren (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lorena is read(measured from records)
Lorena is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish74%
Del francés Lorraine; región de Francia, antigua Lotaringia, 'tierra de Lotario'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- English8.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lorena in English.
- Portuguese5.7%
Lorraine (a cultural region, former administrative region, and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est region)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lorena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #300 | 253,461 | 1 in 835 | 253K | Lorena | 191 |
| PH Philippines | #65 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 738 | — | Lorna | 115 |
| AR Argentina | #80 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 411 | 64 | Lorena | 163 |
| CO Colombia | #56 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 779 | 34 | Lorena | 182 |
| ES Spain | #71 | 62,508 | 1 in 800 | 63K | Lorena | 209 |
| CL Chile | #89 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 579 | 2 | Lorena | 145 |
| SV El Salvador | #71 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 502 | — | Lorena | 63 |
| PY Paraguay | #36 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 643 | — | Lorena | 58 |
253,461 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lorena is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Spanish equivalent of }Lauren (see main dictionary).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Latinate elaboration of the girl’s name pLoren.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
que lleva la luz, referido a Venus, la Natural de Lorena, región de Francia
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Swedish, Lorena är en spansk och italiensk form av Laurena som är en bildning till → Laura. Se även → Lauren.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Silvia Manríquezb. 1953MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Lorena Galeb. 1958CACanadian actress (1958-2009)
- Lorena Herrerab. 1967MXMexican actress, singer and model
- Lorena Rojasb. 1971MXMexican singer and actress (1971-2015)
- Lorena Berdún Villegasb. 1973ESSpanish actress
- Lorena Ochoab. 1981MXMexican professional golfer
- Lorena Kotōb. 1985JPJapanese actress
- Lorena Mirandab. 1991ESSpanish water polo player
- Lorena Wiebesb. 1999NLDutch cyclist
- Kylie Cantrallb. 2005USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 102 sources across 52 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 253K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 252K | #121 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 112K | #437 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 63K | #145 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 62K | #78 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 60K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #121 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 64 | #943 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 34 | #87 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Lorena?
- A machine transcription gives /loɾena/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Lorena come from?
- Spanish equivalent of }Lauren (see main dictionary). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Lorena a male or female name?
- Lorena is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Lorena?
- In the etymology graph, Lori, Lorraine and Lorie are forms of the same name in other languages; Laurena is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Lorena?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 253,461 people named Lorena in 2022, about 1 in 835 residents.
- How common is Lorena compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Lorena is the 300th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Lorena have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 253 thousand people named Lorena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lorena.
- What does the name Lorena mean?
- In Portuguese, Lorraine (a cultural region, former administrative region, and former duchy in eastern France; since 2016 part of the region of Grand Est region)
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lorenaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lorena” — the 300th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.