Morena is a girl's name of Spanish origin meaning “brown, brown-haired.” In 2024 it was given to 5 girls in the United States.
Morena at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Spanish · Italian
Meaning
“brown, brown-haired”
About the name Morena
Morena belongs to the Spanish and Italian tradition. Its meaning — “brown, brown-haired” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Morena first appears in Social Security records in 1957. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #5398 in 1959, and in 2024 5 babies received the name — 287 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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