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Lorena is a feminine given name with different origins. It can be used as an Italian Portuguese and Spanish version of Lorraine or alternately as a Latin version of Lauren. As used in the United States it may have come from the song title of a popular 1856 song by Rev. Henry D.L. Webster and Joseph Philbrick Webster who are said to have derived the name from an anagram of the name Lenore a character in Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem The Raven.