Lolita (, , or ) is a female
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a ...
of
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
origin. It is the diminutive form of
Lola
Lola may refer to:
Places
* Lolá, a or subdistrict of Panama
* Lola Township, Cherokee County, Kansas, United States
* Lola Prefecture, Guinea
* Lola, Guinea, a town in Lola Prefecture
* Lola Island, in the Solomon Islands
People
* Lola ...
, a
hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for I ...
of
Dolores, which means "sorrows" or "pains" in Spanish.
Popularity
According to the
United States
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Social Security Administration
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, 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
In Christianity, a name day is a tradition in many countries of Europe and the Americas, among other parts of Christendom. It consists of celebrating a day of the year that is associated with one's baptismal name, which is normatively that of a ...
is 30 May.
Notable people named Lolita
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Lolita Ananasova (born 1992), Ukrainian swimmer
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Lolita Ayala (born 1951), Mexican journalist
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Lolita Carbon (born 1952), Filipino singer, member of
Asin (band).
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Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actress
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Lolita Chammah
Lolita Chammah (born 1 October 1983) is a French actress.
Background
Chammah is the daughter of and Isabelle Huppert. She grew up in Paris and already had her first roles during childhood.
Lolita Chammah has one son, Gabriel Merz Chammah. At ...
(born 1983), French actress
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Lolita Čigāne
Lolita Čigāne is currently an international consultant with a unique experience in politics, elections, election campaign financing, law-making, electoral campaigns, anti-corruption, civil society participation and EU law and integration. She ...
(born 1973), Latvian politician
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Lolita Davidovich
Lolita Davidovich ( sr-Latn, Lolita Davidović, italic=unset; born July 15, 1961) is a Canadian-born film and television actress, best known for portraying Blaze Starr in the 1989 film '' Blaze'', for which she received a Chicago Film Critics As ...
(born 1961), Canadian actress
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Lolita de la Colina
Dolores de la Colina Flores (born 26 December 1948, Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico) is a popular singer and songwriter from the 1970s based in Mexico. She has written songs for Manoella Torres, Lupita D'Alessio, Sophy, José José, José Luis Rod ...
(born 1948), Mexican singer
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Lolita Einzinger (1931–2010), Austrian singer
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Lolita Files (born 1963), American writer
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Lolita Flores (born 1958), Spanish actress and singer
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Lolita Kreivaitienė (born 1960), Lithuanian designer
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Lolita Lebrón
Lolita Lebrón (November 19, 1919 – August 1, 2010) was a Puerto Rican nationalist who was convicted of attempted murder and other crimes after carrying out an armed attack on the United States Capitol in 1954, which resulted in the wound ...
(1919–2010), Puerto Rican political activist
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Lolita Lempicka
Lolita Lempicka (real name Josiane Maryse Pividal in Bordeaux, 1954) is a French fashion designer and perfumer.
Early life
An admirer of her mother's work as a seamstress, Lolita Lempicka dressed Barbie dolls herself at the age of six; ...
(born 1954), French fashion designer
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Lolita Milyavskaya (born 1963), Russian singer and actress
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Lolita Morena
Lolita Laura Morena (born 15 October 1960) is a Swiss model and television hostess.
Miss Switzerland
She was a student of Egyptology when she won the Miss Switzerland pageant in 1982. She went on to represent her country at Miss World 1982 and Mi ...
(born 1960), Swiss actress
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Lolita Pille (born 1982), French writer
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Lolita Ritmanis (born 1962), Latvian-American composer
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Lolita Rodrigues (born 1929), Brazilian actress
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Lolita Rodriguez
Dolores Marquez Clark, better known by her screen name Lolita Rodriguez (January 29, 1935 – November 28, 2016), was a multi-awarded actress in the Philippines. She was paired with Eddie Arenas in ''Gilda'' (1956), in which she won her first F ...
(born 1935), Filipino actress
*
Lolita Sevilla
Ángeles Moreno Gómez (20 March 1935 - 16 December 2013), better known as Lolita Sevilla, was a Spanish actress and singer, whose career spanned over 40 years.
Born in Seville, she began singing at the age of ten, in 1945 and also had a film ...
(1935–2013), Spanish actress
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Lolita Tizol (1890–1933), Puerto Rican educator
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Lolita Torres
Lolita Torres (born Beatriz Mariana Torres; 26 March 1930 – 14 September 2002) was an Argentine film actress and singer (contralto).
She began her career at age 11, performing folk songs in a theater in Buenos Aires. In 1944 she began acting ...
(1930–2002), Argentine actress
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Lolita Yermak (born 1996), Ukrainian ice dancer
;People known as Lolita
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Amy Fisher
Amy Elizabeth Fisher (born August 21, 1974) is an American woman who became known in the media as "the Long Island Lolita" in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of Joey Buttafuoco, with whom ...
(born 1974), American woman known as "the Long Island Lolita"
;Fictional characters
*Lolita, 12-year-old Dolores Haze in Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel ''
Lolita''. (Nabokov commented, "I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.")
*Lolita Pulido, the central female character of Johnston McCulley's 1919 novel ''
The Curse of Capistrano'', adapted to film in 1920, 1940 and 1974 as ''The Mark of Zorro''; in the 1974 version her given name was changed to Teresa to avoid confusion with the Nabokov character, whose name had by that time become a byword for a sexually precocious nymphet.
Usage as a word
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
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (russian: link=no, Владимир Владимирович Набоков ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Bor ...
'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.]["Help, my name's Lolita"]
by Brendan O'Neill, BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broad ...
, 13 February 2008
Related
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See also
* Lolita (disambiguation)
*'' Lolita'', a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
*Loleatta Holloway
Loleatta Holloway (, ; November 5, 1946 – March 21, 2011) was an American singer known for disco songs such as "Hit and Run" and "Love Sensation". In December 2016, ''Billboard'' named her the 95th most successful dance artist of all time. Acco ...
References
External links
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