"Lorena" Songwriter-- Part 6: All About Lorena

"Lorena" became a naming trend.  Riverboats and baby girls share the invented name.  Author Frank Slaughter wrote a novel of the same name, but his heroine was 16 and has the name that wasn't in existence at the time of her birth.

I looked up the name Lorena in Wikipedia and it said that the name "Lorena" might have come from Henry DeLafayette's poem used as the words to "Lorena" in which he used an anagram of Edgar Allan Poe's Lenore in "The Raven."

In Margaret Mitchell's book "Gone With the Wind" (not in the movie, however), Scarlett O'Hara's daughter with Frank Kennedy was named Ella Lorena Kennedy.

There was a list of famous Lorenas.  The only one I recognized  was the wife of John Wayne Bobbitt.

Mighty Scared of Mrs. Bobbitt.  --Old Secesh