Lola (given name)
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 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, Aloisia |
Lola is a feminine given name and nickname in the Romance languages, and other language groups.
It is a hypocoristic 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.
The term Lola is used as an affectionate or honorific term for an elderly woman (a grandmother) in the Philippines. (Synonyms include; lola, impo, lelang, mamang). This is used coinciding with the male honorific of Lolo (Syn.; lolo, apo, lelong, tatang).
Lola is also a short form of the unrelated German name Aloisia and a hypocorism of Lolita, in particular in Russian.
The name Lola is also common in Africa; in Nigeria, many feminine Yoruba 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.
Lola is also used as a short form of the name Karolina, which was especially popular in use in the 1920s in Poland and is still used. It is also a form of Carol and Charlotte.
Though the name originated with a title for 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".[1] 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[2] and its film adaptations in 1962 and 1997.[3] 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.
Names beginning with or containing the letter L have also been particularly fashionable for girls.[4]
- Lola Albright (1924–2017), American singer and actress
- Lola Almudevar (1978–2007), British journalist and news reporter
- Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993), Mexican photographer
- Dolors Lola Anglada (1893–1984), Spanish writer and illustrator
- Lola Astanova (born 1982), Russian-born classical pianist
- Lola Badia (born 1951), Spanish philologist, medievalist
- Lola Beeth (1861–1940), Austrian soprano opera singer
- María Lucila Lola Beltrán (1932–1996), Mexican ranchera singer
- Lola Berthet (born 1977), Argentine actress
- Lola Bobesco (1921–2003), Belgian violinist
- Lola Braccini, born Camilla Cariddi (1889–1969), Italian actress
- Lola Brooke, American rapper
- Lolah Burford (1931–2002), American author
- Carola Lola Costa, (1903–2004), English painter, writer and poet
- Lola Cotton (1892–1975), American vaudeville hypnotist and mentalist of the early 20th century
- Lola Daviet (died 2022), French murder victim
- María Dolores Lola Dueñas (born 1971), Spanish actress
- Lola Beer Ebner, born Carola Zwillinger (1910–1997), Israeli fashion designer
- Loletha Elayne Lola Falana (born 1942), American dancer and actress
- María Dolores Lola Flores (1923–1995), Spanish singer, dancer, and actress
- Lola Forner (born 1960), also known as María Dolores Forner Toro, Spanish actress
- Dolores Lola Gaos (1921–1993), Spanish actress
- Lola Glaudini (born 1971), American actress
- Lola Graham (1918–1992), Australian musician
- Giulia Lola Stabile, known simply as Giulia Stabile (born 2002), Spanish-Italian dancer and television presenter
- María Dolores Lola Herrera (born 1935), Spanish actress
- Lola Lane, born Dorothy Mullican (1906–1981) American actress
- Lola J. May (1923–2007), American mathematics educator, author and consultant
- Lola Lemire Tostevin (born 1937), Canadian poet and novelist
- Lola McEvoy, British politician
- LoLa Monroe born Fershgenet Melaku (born 1986), Ethiopian-born hip hop model
- Lola Martinez (broadcaster), news broadcaster
- Lola Monaghan, Australian burlesque dancer under the stage name Lola the Vamp
- Dolores Candelaria Lola Mora (1866–1936), Argentine sculptor
- Lola Muñoz, Spanish singer
- Lola Nicon (born 1999), French model
- Zorana Lola Novaković (1935–2016), Serbian writer
- Lola Pagnani (born 1972), Italian actress
- Lola Petticrew (born 1995), Northern Ireland actress
- Lola Radivojevic (born 2005), Serbian tennis player
- Rose Emily Lola Ridge (1873–1941), Irish-born New Zealand-American anarchist and modernist poet, and editor of Marxist publications
- Lola Rodríguez de Tió (1843–1924), Puerto Rican poet
- Lola Solar (1904–1989), Austrian teacher and politician
- Lola Todd (1904–1995), American actress
- Lola Tung (born 2002), American actress
- Lola Van Wagenen (born 1938), American historian consumer advocate
- Lola N. Vassall (1906–2002), Jamaican-American physician
- Margaret Omolola Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey (born 1951), British artist, writer, and peer
