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Lorna
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Origin and Meaning
Fantasy name invented by Richard Doddridge Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone (1869)
Blackmore seems to have derived the name from the Scottish placename Lorn/Lorne (Gaelic Latharna), a territory in Argyll [1] [2] [3]
The place name means '(Territory of) the people of Loarn Mór ('the great fox')' [4]
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| Fox Image by Martin Mecnarowski,[5] licensed under Creative Commons |
Related Names
| Lorna | ♀ |   |
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Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Lorna |
| Genitive: | Lornas |
| - Finnish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Lorna |
| Genitive: | Lornan |
| Partitive: | Lornaa |
| - Norwegian |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Lorna |
| Genitive: | Lornas |
| - Swedish |
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|---|---|
| Nominative: | Lorna |
| Genitive: | Lornas |
Further Information
Earliest Documented Usage
Strongest Period of Usage
Predominant Regional Usage
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[6] |
|
108 | 159 | 108 | 159 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[7] |
 |
41 | n.a. |
41 | n.a. |
0 | n.a. |
| Finland[8] |
|
n.a. |
51 | n.a. |
51 | 0 | 0 |
 Iceland[9] |
  |
5 | 6 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
|
0 | 3 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[11] |
|
66 | n.a. |
66 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Lorna.
References
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ A. D. Mills: Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)
- ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Image by Martin Mecnarowski (www.photomecan.eu), source & license
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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