Given name
Loredana
Loredana connects an Italian literary heroine with an older Venetian surname.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
How it developed
In Italian usage, Loredana is a feminine form of LOREDANO.
The story
Luciano Zuccoli appears to have created Loredana for his novel L’amore di Loredana. Its form points toward the Venetian surname Loredan, which in turn connects with the place name Loreo.
Loredana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 273
- 0 boys · 273 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 12 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 940 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Loredana’s family of names
In Italian usage, Loredana is a feminine form of LOREDANO.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Loredana
- Loredana BertèItalian singer (1950-)
- Loredana CannataItalian actress (1975-)
- Loredana DinuRomanian épée fencerborn 1984
- Loredana NusciakItalian actress (1942-2006)
- Lory Del SantoItalian actress and modelborn 1958
- Loredana BobocRomanian Gymnastborn 1984
- Loredana TomaRomanian weightlifterborn 1995
- Loredana GrozaRomanian actress, singer, and entertainerborn 1970
- Loredana ErroreItalian singer (1984-)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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