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Gender | Female |
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Origin | |
Word/name | from Medieval Latin Lotharingia, "Lothar's realm"[1] |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Loraine, Lorayne |
Nickname(s) | Lori/Lorri(e), Raine(y), Reina |
Related names |
Lorraine is a feminine given name, which is simply from the name of the region of Lorraine in France. It has been used in the English-speaking world (especially the United States and Canada) since the Franco-Prussian War, during which events brought the region to the North American public's attention.[citation needed] It is a Danish, English, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish modern form of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of Hlūdaz and Harjaz).[2]