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Lolita

#10,560 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Lolita has been given to 8,664 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #10,560 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 432 recorded.

Babies named Lolita, 2025

1 in 368,000

Lolita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lolita: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Spanish

What Lolita means

Lolita has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

The name is from Spanish Lolita, diminutive of Lola, from the given name Dolores. The noun derives from the name: see the etymology at lolita for details.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lolita (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Lolita is used in English, French, Latvian, Lithuanian and Spanish. Its origins include Spanish.

Lolita comes through Spanish Lolita.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lola, লল, Dolores and Lolita.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lolita is pronounced /loʊlˈli.ɾə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,664 girls were recorded with the name Lolita between 1890 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 432 in 1963; its best national rank was #468 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,793 in 2020 to #10,560 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,611 in 2015 to #10,560 in 2025.

How common is Lolita?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,560
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lolita sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lolita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lolitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lolita was born before 1963 — so the typical Lolita is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,204
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1960s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (2,496).

Is Lolita rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,165
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,767
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,949
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.1%
Peak was 1963 (432)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#468
1963

Spellings of Lolita

Lolita is not the most common spelling — Lola is, with 34.7% against Lolita's 3.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lolita is used

Across 1910–2025, Lolita was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 3,704 girls, against 1 in 29,237 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

027 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 3,704
  2. 2Illinois1 in 7,143
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 10,000
  4. 4Hawaii1 in 14,286
  5. 5Maryland1 in 16,667
  6. 6Virginia1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lolita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lolita around the world

Where Lolita ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    1973–1990
    #517
    in 1990
  • France
    1914–2025
    #2,729
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1949–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Lolita

People whose public names include Lolita, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Lolita in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lolita. Linked forms have their own page here.

LitaLolaLilita

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lolita by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,560
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,767
Best rank ever
#468
1963
Peak year
1963
432 that year
First recorded
1890
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,664
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Lolita

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Lolita

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lolita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lolita

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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