Lorenzo
Meaning of Lorenzo
Lorenzo is the Italian and Spanish form of Laurentius, a Roman name for someone from Laurentum, an ancient town near Rome. The town's name may come from laurus, Latin for laurel. Lorenzo is pronounced loh-REN-tsoh in Italian and luh-REN-zoh in English.
Devotion to Saint Lawrence (San Lorenzo in Italian and Spanish), a third-century deacon in Rome, helped spread the name. Lorenzo de' Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was the de facto ruler of Renaissance Florence and a patron of Botticelli and Michelangelo. Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote the librettos for Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte.
In the U.S., Lorenzo rose from 307th in 2012 to its highest rank, 116th, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked 117th, with 3,065 babies given the name, the most in any year.
Pronunciation
Italian
- Pronunced as loh-REN-tsoh (/loˈrɛntso/)
English
- Pronunced as luh-REN-zoh (/ləˈrɛnzoʊ/)
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Notable People Named Lorenzo
| Lorenzo de Medici, known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, was the de facto ruler of Florence and a leading Renaissance patron who backed Botticelli and Michelangelo while balancing the Italic League and surviving the Pazzi conspiracy. |
| Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian and later American opera librettist, poet, and Roman Catholic priest best known for writing the librettos for Mozart operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte. |
| Lorenzo de Zavala was a Yucatan-born physician, politician, diplomat, and author who helped draft the 1824 Mexican constitution and the 1836 Republic of Texas constitution, and was fluent in several languages. |
| Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Renaissance humanist and priest, exposed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery, undermining papal temporal power and foreshadowing the Reformation. |
| Lorenzo Fernando Lamas is an American actor and producer best known for playing Lance Cumson on Falcon Crest, a role that earned him a Golden Globe nomination. |
| Lorenzo Ruiz, a Chinese Filipino Catholic layman of the Dominican Third Order, was executed in Japan during the seventeenth century and is honored as the Philippines protomartyr and patron saint. |
| Spanish businessman Lorenzo Sanz Mancebo was the 14th president of Real Madrid and a former owner of Malaga. |
| Lorenzo Sabine was a Massachusetts congressman best remembered for his pioneering scholarship on Loyalists of the American Revolution. |
| Lorenzo Music was an American actor and writer best known for co creating The Bob Newhart Show and for voicing Garfield and Carlton the Doorman. |
| Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino - Lorenzo di Piero de Medici, ruler of Florence and Duke of Urbino from 1516 to 1519, was the father of Catherine de Medici, Queen Consort of France, and Alessandro de Medici, the first Duke of Florence. |
