Loretta is an Italian-English elaboration of Laura — possibly also from the Italian shrine of Our Lady of Loreto in the Marche region. **Loretta Lynn (1932-2022)** — **American country singer-songwriter whose autobiographical 1970 song "Coal Miner's Daughter" defined country music's working-class poetics**. **First woman named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association (1972); 24 #1 country hits**. **Married at 15 to a 21-year-old; had four children by age 19; wrote about birth control ("The Pill," 1975) and Vietnam ("Dear Uncle Sam," 1966) when both were taboo in country music**. **Loretta Young (1913-2000)** — American actress; Oscar (1947).
Subject of Michael Apted's *Coal Miner's Daughter* (1980) starring Sissy Spacek (Oscar).
Loretta reduces to six — the number of Coal Miner's Daughter.