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Lurlene doesn't look much like Lorelei to me either. I'd have to see some convincing evidence of how that came about.
Lurlene looks to me more like an invented name from the heyday of Marlene, Darlene, etc., so maybe 1920s-40s. The first syllable may have been from Lura, which was not exactly a common name at that time, but was regularly used.
I've seen a few rhyming names like Shirlene, Myrlene, Pearlene.
Lurlene looks to me more like an invented name from the heyday of Marlene, Darlene, etc., so maybe 1920s-40s. The first syllable may have been from Lura, which was not exactly a common name at that time, but was regularly used.
I've seen a few rhyming names like Shirlene, Myrlene, Pearlene.
This message was edited 6/1/2014, 1:28 PM
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The Lura connection sounds promising. Do you know what that name means?
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Hmmm...good question. Lura is not listed on this site or in any of the name dictionaries that I consider reliable. Yet it appeared on the US Top 1000 from 1880 to 1949, and ranked as high as #202. If I had to guess, I'd surmise that it is a dialectal variant of Laura.
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