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Lorna?

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longsocksandsandals · 31/08/2008 12:42

What are opinions on Lorna?
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Elasticwoman · 31/08/2008 14:55

Judy Garland. Knew it would come to me.

Elasticwoman · 31/08/2008 14:55

Lorna Luft - daughter of whatsername in Wizard of Oz.
Lorna Sage - now deceased, writer of acclaimed autobiography
My cousin Lorna - least said the better .

Kbear · 31/08/2008 14:44

I like it. My friend has a Lorna who is five. She is Scottish and the accent makes it I think.

ThinWhiteDuchess · 31/08/2008 14:24

Agree with you Flame for questioning the downmarket comment! My parents would be aghast to think any of our names was thought to be 'downmarket'!! lol.

Flamesparrow · 31/08/2008 14:21

Downmarket????

I like Lorna

flyinglizzards · 31/08/2008 14:11

Wendy - also a created name that first appeared in James Banie's Peter Pan.

I like Lorna much more that the similar popular names like laura and lauren.

It is ageless which I like

seb1 · 31/08/2008 14:05

Heather and Lorna are quite Scottish names are you after a Scottish name?

hw2004 · 31/08/2008 13:57

I think it's very underused and very pretty.

ThinWhiteDuchess · 31/08/2008 13:24

My sister's middle name and she hates it. Not too keen myself tbh.

hughjarssss · 31/08/2008 13:19

Agree MerryMarigold

3andnomore · 31/08/2008 13:19

like Lorna

MerryMarigold · 31/08/2008 13:17

oh didn't know he was first to use...but that's historical enough, innit? I see it was first published in 1869, so it's about 150yrs old as a name, which is good enough I think! History is a moving process.

zippitippitoes · 31/08/2008 13:01

i like Lorne but that is a boys name so not much use to you

i prefer laura

mrswoolf · 31/08/2008 12:55

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MerryMarigold · 31/08/2008 12:53

who's 'the author'? I know 2 Lorna's quite different in age though - one is Irish and one is Afro Caribbean!

mrswoolf · 31/08/2008 12:50

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hughjarssss · 31/08/2008 12:49

I love it.
We had real problems picking a girls name for dd as we couldn't find one we liked. We ended up gpoing with a family name.

Lorna is the first girls name that I really like.

Its now top of my list for next time

MerryMarigold · 31/08/2008 12:44

I really like it. Well done! It is unusual but well known iyswim. Very pretty. I think it's Irish (not sure), but not so much that you would have to be from there.

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