Save Gender Feminine Usage English (Rare), Italian (Rare), Romanian (Rare), Albanian, Swedish (Rare), Norwegian (Rare), Danish (Rare), Hungarian, Croatian, Romani (Archaic) Meaning & History Italian elaboration of Lora and variant of Laurina as well as a Scandinavian feminine form of Lorens. Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books, had an older sister named Lorina Charlotte.