Lauretta, ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names; if you had called her Deborah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.
1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, St. Patrick's Day, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, page 58