Lorenza

Where Lorenza comes from

Lorenza hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #781 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1901
    Peak, #727
    9 babies named Lorenza — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1927
    Lorenza Mazzetti born
    Italian writer and film director
  5. 1989
    Lorenza Izzo born
    Chilean actress and model
  6. 1997
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lorenza Izzo · Chilean actress and model, born 1989
  • Lorenza Mazzetti · Italian writer and film director, 1927–2020
  • Lorenza Guerrieri · Italian actress, born 1944
  • Lorenza Indovina · Italian actress, born 1966
  • Lorenza Correa · soprano (1770s-c.1831), 1770–1831

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.