English

Alternative forms

• Loretta

Proper noun

Lauretta

1. A female given name.
   • 1775 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1419148745, page 58

     Lauretta, ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names; if you had called her Deborah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.