Lolita (given name)

Lolita (,, or ) is a female given name of Spanish origin. It is the diminutive form of Lola, a hypocorism of Dolores, which means "sorrows" or "pains" 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

 * Lolita Ananasova (born 1992), Ukrainian swimmer
 * Lolita Ayala (born 1951), Mexican journalist
 * Lolita Carbon (born 1952), Filipino singer, member of Asin (band).
 * Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1969), British actress
 * Lolita Chammah (born 1983), French actress
 * Lolita Čigāne (born 1973), Latvian politician
 * Lolita Davidovich (born 1961), Canadian actress
 * Lolita de la Colina (born 1948), Mexican singer
 * Lolita Einzinger (1931–2010), Austrian singer
 * Lolita Files (born 1963), American writer
 * Lolita Flores (born 1958), Spanish actress and singer
 * Lolita Kreivaitienė (born 1960), Lithuanian designer
 * Lolita Lebrón (1919–2010), Puerto Rican political activist
 * Lolita Lempicka (born 1954), French fashion designer
 * Lolita Milyavskaya (born 1963), Russian singer and actress
 * Lolita Morena (born 1960), Swiss actress
 * Lolita Pille (born 1982), French writer
 * Lolita Ritmanis (born 1962), Latvian-American composer
 * Lolita Rodrigues (born 1929), Brazilian actress
 * Lolita Rodriguez (1935–2016), Filipino actress
 * Lolita Sevilla (1935–2013), Spanish actress
 * Lolita Tizol (1890–1933), Puerto Rican educator
 * Lolita Torres (1930–2002), Argentine actress
 * Lolita Coffin Van Rensselaer (1875–1947), American clubwoman
 * Lolita Yermak (born 1996), Ukrainian ice dancer


 * People known as Lolita
 * Amy Fisher (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'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. Not to be confused with the popular Japanese fashion genre beginning in Harajuku in the 1980’s, that is referred to by the same name; Lolita Fashion. Though the fashion is seen as a feminist, anti-sexual fashion movement for young Japanese girls to reclaim their sexuality back, and to dress elegantly to avert the male gaze. It is not linked in any way to the novel by Nabokov.