Lolita: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Lolita | Girls

Lolita

Pronunciation: loh-LEE-tə (key)

Origin of the name Lola:

A diminutive form of the Spanish Dolores, which is derived from dolores (sorrows, aches).

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Related Names:

Lola, Dolores

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French designer Josiane Maryse Pivida who was inspired by Fairytales and fantasy named her Perfume brand "Lolita Lempicka" after Vladimir Nabokav's character from his Novel "Lolita" and as a tribute to Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka.

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I named my daughter Lolita. She's fifteen and adore her name :)

Nicknames for Lolita: | Edit

Lo, Lilo, Lola, Lothen, Lolita, Lolitka, Lolitchen, Lottelita, Lita

Meanings and history of the name Lolita: | Edit

The name was made famous by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita. Due to its associations with the novel's title character, the name has acquired the meaning of a sexually precocious girl.

Famous real-life people named Lolita: | Edit

Dolores "Lolita" Lebron Sotomayor: Puerto Rican activist.
Lolita Files, American author.

Lolita in song, story & screen: | Edit

Lolita, a novel by Vladimir Nabokov about a man who has an affair with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores, Lolita.
Lolita was a bully in the 1994 film Welcome to the Dollhouse

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