Lorraine is used as a feminine name, meaning "From Lorraine, France

Lorraine (région)

Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...

". The name is of French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 origin, and is above all in the United States

United States

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 and Canada

Canada

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, after World War I

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, during which events brought Lorraine, France

Lorraine (région)

Lorraine is one of the 27 régions of France. The administrative region has two cities of equal importance, Metz and Nancy. Metz is considered to be the official capital since that is where the regional parliament is situated...

 to the North American

North American

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 public imagination. Variations include: Lori, Lorri, Lorrie, Lorena. Rainey, Reina, Reigna, Laura, Laurène, Lareine, and Lorena.

People with the given name include:

• Lorraine Baines McFly, Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy
• Lorraine Bracco
  Lorraine Bracco
  Lorraine Bracco is an American actress. She is best known for her TV roles as Dr. Jennifer Melfi on HBO series, The Sopranos, and Angela Rizzoli on the TNT series, Rizzoli & Isles...
  
  , American actress
• Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick
  Lorraine Broderick is an American television soap opera writer who got her start on All My Children as a protégée of the show's creator, Agnes Nixon.-Bio:...
  
  , American television soap opera writer
• Lorraine Chase
  Lorraine Chase
  Lorraine Chase is an English actress and model. She became well known for her strong cockney accent and frequent use of cockney slang, and found fame through a series of television commercials for Campari before embarking on an acting career.-Television:After initially working as a model, Chase...
  
  , English actress and model
• Lorraine Collett
  Lorraine Collett
  Lorraine Collett Petersen was an American model hired to promote a corporate trademark as the "Sun-Maid Girl".Lorraine Collett was born to George Dexter Collett and Martha Elizabeth Falkenstein in Kansas City, Missouri...
  
  , American model
• Lorraine Ellison
  Lorraine Ellison
  Lorraine Ellison was an American soul singer, best known for her recording of the song "Stay with Me" in 1966.-Life and career:...
  
  , American soul singer
• Lorraine Fenton
  Lorraine Fenton
  Lorraine Fenton is a retired Jamaican athlete who specialized in the 400 metres....
  
  , Jamaican athlete
• Lorraine Hansberry
  Lorraine Hansberry
  Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays...
  
  , American playwright
• Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
  Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
  Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was an American mezzo-soprano, known for the dramatic power of her vocal artistry as well as her commitment to performing infrequently-heard Baroque era and contemporary works...
  
  , American soprano
• Lorraine Kelly
  Lorraine Kelly
  Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter, journalist and actress, best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on Lorraine.-Early life:...
  
  , Scottish TV journalist
• Lorraine McIntosh
  Lorraine McIntosh
  Lorraine McIntosh is the female vocalist, with the Scottish pop band, Deacon Blue, and is married to lead singer Ricky Ross. They have three children...
  
  , female vocalist, with the Scottish pop band, Deacon Blue
• Lorraine Segato
  Lorraine Segato
  Lorraine Segato is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for and a principal songwriter of new wave and pop rock group Parachute Club, with which she continues to perform.- History :...
  
  , Canadian pop singer-songwriter
• Lorraine Swanson, a character played by Mo Collins on the television show MADtv

See also

• Loraine (disambiguation)
• Lorraine (disambiguation)
• Lorrain (disambiguation)
• House of Lorraine
  House of Lorraine
  The House of Lorraine, the main and now only remaining line known as Habsburg-Lorraine, is one of the most important and was one of the longest-reigning royal houses in the history of Europe...
  
  
• Harry Lorayne
  Harry Lorayne
  Harry Lorayne is an American magician and a memory-training specialist and writer who was once called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine. He is well known for his mnemonic demonstrations and has appeared on numerous television shown including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...