Lola
Meaning of Lola
Lola is the kind of name that twirls onto the scene, all swingy skirts and bright laughter. Born as the Spanish nickname for Dolores—“sorrow” that, in a charming twist, sounds anything but—she carries a history that’s both soulful and spirited. From the show-tune tease of “Whatever Lola Wants” to the indie-cool heroine dashing through Run Lola Run, she keeps popping up wherever a free-spirited lead is needed. In the U.S., her popularity has bobbed like a beach ball for more than a century, lately hovering around the mid-200s, proof that parents still fall for her breezy, retro-fresh vibe. Pronounced “LOH-lah,” Lola feels equally at home on a playground or a jazz club marquee, offering a little sparkle to the everyday and whispering to any baby girl, “Go on—your story’s waiting.”
Pronunciation
Spanish
- Pronunced as LOH-lah (/ˈlo.la/)
American English
- Pronunced as LOH-lah (/ˈloʊ.lə/)
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Notable People Named Lola
| Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexico's first woman photographer, was a postrevolutionary art pioneer whose acclaimed compositions earned the 1964 Premio Jose Clemente Orozco and places in major museums like MoMA. |
| Lola Flores was a Spanish actress, flamenco dancer, and singer who rose from a teenage debut in Jerez to stardom in Madrid, breaking through in 1943 with Zambra alongside Manolo Caracol. |
| Lola Falana is an American singer, dancer, and actress who earned a 1975 Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for Doctor Jazz. |
| Lola Ridge was an Irish born New Zealand American anarchist and modernist poet and an influential editor of avant garde feminist and Marxist publications best known for long poems and poetic sequences published widely and collected in five books. |
| Lola Eniola-Adefeso - Omolola Eniola-Adefeso is a Nigerian American chemical engineer and incoming dean of the University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering. |
| Lola Lennox Fruchtmann is a British and Israeli singer, songwriter, and model, sister of Tali Lennox and daughter of Annie Lennox and film producer Uri Fruchtmann. |
| Lola Maverick Lloyd, a Texas-born American pacifist, suffragist, feminist, and world federalist, married William Bross Lloyd and together they used their family wealth and influence to support Progressive Era causes. |
| Lola Rodríguez de Tió was a celebrated Puerto Rican poet and activist who championed womens rights, the abolition of slavery, and Puerto Rican independence. |
| Lola Astanova is an American pianist born in Uzbekistan. |
| Lola Yoldosheva, known as Lola, is an Uzbek singer, songwriter, and actress who rose to fame with the 2003 hit Muhabbatim and records in Uzbek and Russian. |
| Lola the Vamp, also known as Lola and Meghann Montgomery, is an Australian neo burlesque performer and scholar whose Griffith University PhD included her stage work and who is a senior lecturer at the SAE Creative Media Institute in Brisbane. |
| Lola Greeno is an Aboriginal Australian artist, curator, and arts worker who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania in 1997. |
| Lola Lane, an American actress and member of the Lane Sisters, performed on Broadway and in films from the 1920s to the 1940s. |
| Lola Ponce is an Argentine singer and actress. |
| Lola de la Torre was a Canarian musician and a pioneer of musicology in the Canary Islands. |
