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 "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, Ukrainian swimmer
- Lolita Ayala, Mexican journalist
- Lolita Carbon, Filipino singer, member of Asin (band).
- Lolita Chakrabarti, British actress
- Lolita Chammah, French actress
- Lolita Čigāne, Latvian politician
- Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress
- Lolita de la Colina, Mexican singer
- Lolita Einzinger, Austrian singer
- Lolita Files, American writer
- Lolita Flores, Spanish actress and singer
- Lolita Javier, Filipina politician
- Lolita Kreivaitienė, Lithuanian designer
- Lolita Lebrón, Puerto Rican political activist
- Lolita Lempicka, French fashion designer
- Lolita Milyavskaya, Russian singer and actress
- Lolita Morena, Swiss actress
- Lolita Pille, French writer
- Lolita Ritmanis, Latvian-American composer
- Lolita Rodrigues, Brazilian actress
- Lolita Rodriguez, Filipino actress
- Lolita Sevilla, Spanish actress
- Lolita Tizol, Puerto Rican educator
- Lolita Torres, Argentine actress
- Lolita Coffin Van Rensselaer, American clubwoman
- Lolita Yermak, Ukrainian ice dancer
- Amy Fisher, American woman known as "the Long Island Lolita"
- Lolita, 12-year-old Dolores Haze in Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.
- 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.