Female first name (English): Lorraine, Old French (Geographic name as first name), originally a common surname in England for immigrants from Lorraine, a province in France, the name of the province 'Lorraine' (German 'Lorraine') comes from the Latin 'Lotharingia ', again derived from the name of a king Lothar / Lothair, only since the end of the 19th Century as a first name in use