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, Aloisia

Lola is a feminine given name and nickname in the 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.

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 honorofic 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]

People named Lola

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
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
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 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
Zorana Lola Novaković (1935–2016), Serbian writer
Lola Pagnani (born 1972), Italian actress
Lola Petticrew (born 1995), Northern Ireland actress
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

Fictional characters

Films

Lola, in the 1958 film, Damn Yankees!
Lola, the title character of Lola, a 1961 French film
Lola, a 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 Alvarez, character in the 2022 Netflix film A Perfect Pairing, also played by Victoria Justice
Lola Lovell, the name of Kylie Minogue's character in the 1989 film The Delinquents
Lola Perez, character from the 2016 remake of Adventures in Babysitting
Lola Scott, character from the 2008 Disney Channel film Camp Rock

Television

Lola Bunny, a character from the Looney Tunes franchise
Lola, in later Plaza Sésamo television series
Lola Caricola, 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 Rhodes, Charlotte Rhodes character on Gossip Girl (season 5 & 6)
Lola Skumpy, a character from the American animated television series Big Mouth
Lola Spratt, in American black comedy television series and web series Childrens Hospital
Lola Sonner, one of the protagonists in Charlie and Lola
Lola Loud, a character from the American animated television series The Loud House
Lola Martinez, character in American comedy-drama television series Zoey 101
Lola, a character in the animated television series Deer Squad
Lola, a character in the animated television series Pat the Dog
Lola, character in the Canadian animated series Lili & Lola

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 and its film adaptation played by Lindsay Lohan
Lola, a character in Graham Greene's 1937 short story "The Innocent"
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".
In 2009, Jennifer Lopez released, Fresh Out The Oven. A promotional single for her upcoming album, Love?. This song featured a persona or character named 'Lola'.
Lola, the mascot of Gerard Way, derived from the album "Hesitant Alien."

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 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
Lola and Carla, two characters from Sega's Joypolis

Video game

Lola, a character in MOBA video game Brawl Stars

Notes

^ 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. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
^ "Help, my name's Lolita", BBC News, 13 February 2008.
^ Williams, Alex (12 June 2021). "Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to 'L': Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are hardly the only new parents gravitating toward quirk, family tradition and "L" names". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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

[2] "Lolita". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2011.

[BBC20080213-3] "Help, my name's Lolita", BBC News, 13 February 2008.

[4] Williams, Alex (12 June 2021). "Lilith, Lilibet … Lucifer? How Baby Names Went to 'L': Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are hardly the only new parents gravitating toward quirk, family tradition and "L" names". nytimes.com. New York Times. Retrieved 3 June 2022.

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