Lola

Where Lola comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Lola.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lola
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1821
    Lola Montez born
    Irish dancer and actress
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #117 among girls — 138 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1904
    Peak, #99
    624 babies named Lola — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1972
    Lola Pagnani born
    Italian actress
  5. 2010
    The comeback
    Back to #211 after sinking to #3,506 in 1993.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Lola Pagnani · Italian actress, born 1972
  • Lola Montez · Irish dancer and actress, 1821–1861
  • Lola Albright · American actress and singer, 1924–2017
  • Lola Dueñas · Spanish actress, born 1971
  • Lola Glaudini · American actress, born 1971

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.