Loretta

Loretta Goggi (b. 1950) is an Italian, singer, actress and TV host. Goggi is also an acclaimed singer and her records have always entered the Italian pop charts. She reached second place at the 1981 Festival Della Canzone Italiana with the song 'Maledetta Primavera', her biggest pop hit.

Loretta Chase is a successful American novelist.

I always associate this name with 1970s Southern country and western singers. I have always liked the name :-) I was looking into some family history and I have discovered this name was fairly common in medieval England. One of my distant ancestors was Anglo-Norman noblewoman Loretta la Zouche born in 1205 and died in 1279, she was from the town of Ashby de la zouch in Leicestershire which took her family name.

Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums over a career of almost 60 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She is the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade.

I keep thinking of Monty Python's Life of Brian: "I want you to call me Loretta."

A famous bearer is Loretta Devine, actress.

"Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a woman, but she was another man
All the girls around her said "She's got it coming."
But she gets it while she can
Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged
Get back Loretta!" - "Get Back" by Paul McCartney

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Amusingly, John Lennon made up this variant of the lyrics:
"Sweet Loretta Modern thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan!"

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I've never heard of anyone with this name besides the song.

Famous bearer: Loretta Lynn Morgan. She's better known as "Lorrie" Morgan. "Lorrie" was named after Loretta Lynn, and happens to be a country singer as well.

Loretta is Cleveland Brown's (now ex) wife on Family Guy.

Loretta Switt is the actress who played Maj. Margaret Houlihan on the 1970's American TV programme, M*A*S*H.

Loretta Lux is a German fine art photographer who creates surreal portraits of young children.

Famous bearer, Loretta Lynn, country singer from the USA.

Loretta Lynn was actually named after classic actress Loretta Young.