Lolita (given name)


Lolita is a female given name of Spanish origin. It is the diminutive form of Lola, a hypocorism of Dolores, which means "suffering" in Spanish.

Popularity

According to the United States Social Security Administration, the popularity of the name Lolita peaked in the United States in 1963, when it was the 467th most popular female name. The SSA has not ranked Lolita in the top 1000 most popular female names given since 1973,
and in the 1990 United States Census, Lolita was ranked the 969th most frequent female name out of 4,275 unique names.
The name remains popular in some other countries, e.g. Latvia where its name day is 30 May.

Notable people named Lolita

;People known as Lolita
;Fictional characters
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 and its film adaptations in 1962 and 1997. A UK retail chain was criticised in January 2008 for branding as "Lolita" a bed aimed at young girls.

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