Variant of Lawrence/Laurence, from Latin Laurentius meaning 'from the place of laurels'.
Lorence is a variant spelling of Lawrence or Laurence, a name rooted in the Latin *Laurentius* — meaning "from Laurentum," an ancient city near Rome whose own name derives from *laurus*, the laurel. The laurel was the sacred plant of Apollo and the symbol of victory and intellectual achievement in the Greco-Roman world; Roman emperors wore laurel crowns, and the poet laureate tradition carries this symbolism directly into the present. A name literally meaning "crowned with laurel" carries an archetype of honor and creative distinction.
Saint Lawrence (San Lorenzo), the third-century Roman deacon martyred on a gridiron in 258 CE, became one of the most widely venerated saints of the early Church. His feast day on August 10th was so beloved that the Perseid meteor shower, peaking on that date, was long called the "Tears of Saint Lawrence" across Christian Europe. E.
H. Lawrence recast it through the lens of passionate literary transgression. The spelling Lorence situates the name at an interesting cultural boundary.
Common in Filipino communities, where Spanish colonial naming traditions merged with indigenous phonology, and occasionally found in African American families as a distinctive variant, Lorence preserves the name's classical dignity while marking a particular cultural journey. It is a name that has traveled — from Roman Italy to medieval Europe to the colonial Philippines to contemporary America — accumulating meaning at every crossing.