Lola (given name)

Lola
	A statue of Our Lady of Sorrows, the title for the Virgin Mary from which the name Lola is derived.
Gender	female
Origin
Word/name	Spanish short form of Dolores and German short form of Aloisia
Meaning	"sorrows"
Region of origin	Spain
Other names
Related names	Dolores, Lolita

Lola is a female given name in Spanish, Romance languages, and other language groups.

It is a short form of the Spanish name Dolores, meaning "sorrows", taken from one of the titles of the Virgin Mary: Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, or Our Lady of Sorrows. Lola is also a short form of the unrelated German name Aloisia. The name Lola is also common in Africa; in Nigeria, many feminine names are shortened to Lola, such as Temilola, Omolola or Damilola. Lola (Tajik for tulip) is also a feminine name in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. It is derived from the Persian لاله or lâleh. The short form Lola has been rising in popularity in several countries in the past decade. It was the 270th most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2007, up from 279th place in 2006 and 375th place in 2005; was ranked as the 64th most popular name for baby girls in Spain in 2006; was ranked as the 51st most popular name for baby girls in England and Wales in 2007; was the 17th most popular name for baby girls in France in 2004; and was the 20th most popular name for baby girls in Belgium in 2006.^[1]

Though the name originated with a title for the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, Lola has also acquired a number of contrasting sensual associations. American authors Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz noted in their 2008 book Cool Names for Babies that the name has a sultry image and that people associate the name with the song "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets" from the musical Damn Yankees, in which the character of Lola is the Devil's "best homewrecker".^[2] The name also has associations with the Irish-born Lola Montez, who became famous in the nineteenth century as an actress, Spanish dancer, courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

Lolita is a Spanish diminutive form of Lola. The name is sometimes used as a term to indicate a sexually precocious girl, due to its association with the title character of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita^[3] and its film adaptations in 1962 and 1997.^[4] The name's sexually charged image in certain countries is also due to associations with "Lola", a 1970 song by The Kinks about a young man's encounter with a transvestite named Lola.

The title character in the 1998 German feature film Run Lola Run may also have raised the name's profile, as has Lola, a clever and inquisitive child character in a recently published series of children's picture books by Lauren Child.

The naming of several children of celebrities in the past decade has increased the popularity of the name. Madonna uses the nickname "Lola" for her daughter Lourdes Leon, born in 1996. Entertainers Kelly Ripa, Chris Rock, Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, Carnie Wilson and Annie Lennox all have daughters named Lola. The name was also used for a granddaughter of Camilla Parker Bowles.

People named Lola

Lola (singer) (born 1981), French singer
Lola Albright, American singer and actress
Lola Almudevar, British journalist and news reporter
Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer
Lola Anglada, Spanish writer and illustrator
Lola Astanova, Russian-born classical pianist
Lola Beeth (1861 – 1940), Austrian soprano opera singer
Lola Beltrán, Mexican ranchera singer
Lola Berthet, Argentine actress
Lola Bobesco, Belgian violinist
Lola Braccini, Italian actress
Lolah Burford, American author
Lola Cotton, American vaudeville hypnotist and mentalist of the early 20th century
Lola Dueñas, Spanish actress
Lola Falana, American dancer and actress
Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress
Lola Forner, Spanish actress
Lola Gaos, Spanish actress
Lola Glaudini, American actress
Lola Graham, Australian musician
Lola Herrera, Spanish actress
Lola Lane, American actress
Lola J. May, American mathematics educator, author and consultant
Lola Lemire Tostevin, Canadian poet and novelist
LoLa Monroe, Ethiopian-born hip hop model
Lola Martinez (broadcaster), news broadcaster
Lola Monaghan, Australian burlesque dancer under the stage name Lola the Vamp
Lola Mora, Argentine sculptor
Lola Muñoz, Spanish singer
Lola Novaković, Serbian writer
Lola Pagnani, Italian actress
Lola Petticrew, actress from Northern Ireland
Lola Ridge, Irish-born anarchist poet and editor of Marxist publications
Lola Rodríguez de Tio, Puerto Rican poet
Lola Todd, American actress
Lola Van Wagenen Redford, consumer advocate and ex-wife of Robert Redford
Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, British artist, writer, and peer

Fictional characters

Films

Lola, in the 1958 film, Damn Yankees!
Lola, character in Shark Tale
Lola, the title character of Run Lola Run, a 1998 German film
Lola Lola, a dancer played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1930 German tragicomedic film The Blue Angel
Lola, the name of the titular character of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1981 film Lola
Lola Lovell, the name of Kylie Minogue's character in the 1989 film The Delinquents

Television

Lola Bunny, a character from the Looney Tunes universe, girlfriend of Bugs Bunny
Lola, in later Plaza Sésamo television series
Lola, character in animated series CatDog
Lola, character in sitcom series in South Park
Lola, the name of Agent Phil Coulson's car in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Lola, character in the novel Atonement
Lola, character in American television series Reign
Lola Luftnagle, alter ego of the character Lilly Truscott on the Disney TV series Hannah Montana
Lola Mbola, main character and African-American girl in Robotboy
Lola, a character on the Spanish television series Lola & Virginia
Lola, a sketch comedy character played by Catherine O'Hara on SCTV
Lola, main character in telenovela Lola...Erase una vez
Lola Boa, character in American animated television series Brandy and Mr. Whiskers
Lola Spratt, in American black comedy television series and web series Childrens Hospital
Lola Loud, a character from the American animated television series The Loud House
Lola Martinez, character in American comedy-drama television series Zoey 101

Literature

Lola Lola, the infamous seductress of Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat
Lola Sonner, one of the main characters from children's book Charlie and Lola
Lola Limekiller, a minor character in the comic strip Bloom County
Lola Cep, character in the novel Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Lola, a character in Graham Greene's 1937 short story "The Innocent"
Lola, a supporting character in Coco Ouwerkerk's webcomic Acception
Lola Osborne, in the 1900 novel Sister Carrie

Music

Lola, the subject of The Kinks' 1970 single "Lola"
Lola, the main character in the Barry Manilow song, "Copacabana".

Musicals

Lola, in the Broadway musical comedy Damn Yankees
Lola, in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots

Others

Lola "La Trailera" (Lola "The Truck Driver"), a fictional character for Mexican actress Rosa Gloria Chagoyán that made her a Mexican action and low-budget films actress in the 1970s
"Lola" is a nickname given to the female portrayal of "Shepard", the central protagonist of the video game series Mass Effect. She receives this nick name in Mass Effect 3 from her crew mate, Lieutenant James Vega.
Lola Rembrite, a dateable character in the dating simulation videogame Huniepop
Lola Pop, a candy-themed clown with the power of body inflation from Nintendo's Arms.

Notes

^ Behind the Name
^ Rosenkrantz, Linda, and Satran, Pamela Redmond (2008). Cool Names for Babies. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-37786-1.
^ "Lolita". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
^ "Help, my name's Lolita", BBC News, 13 February 2008.

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[1] Behind the Name

[2] Rosenkrantz, Linda, and Satran, Pamela Redmond (2008). Cool Names for Babies. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 978-0-312-37786-1.

[3] "Lolita". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 June 2011.

[BBC20080213-4] "Help, my name's Lolita", BBC News, 13 February 2008.

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