Lola
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Short form of Dolores; from Spanish dolor, 'pain, sorrow'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/loʊlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 94th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 1.8K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
41,482 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Common hypocoristic of Dolores; in Sicily also a short form of Lorenza.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lola is read(measured from records)
Lola is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Lola in English.
- French23%
Short form of Dolores; from Spanish dolor, 'pain, sorrow'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Diminutif de Dolores; origine latine, « douleur ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Diminutif de Dolores; souvent associé à la Vierge des Douleurs.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- Spanish20%
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lola, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 41,482 | 1 in 8K | 41K | Lola | 297 |
| FR France | #262 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 77K | Lola | 312 |
| ES Spain | #211 | 27,191 | 1 in 1.8K | 27K | Lola | 174 |
| AR Argentina | #621 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 1.1K | Lola | 95 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Lola | 7 |
| BE Belgium | #818 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 82 | Lola | 65 |
| BO Bolivia | #94 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Lola | 28 |
41,482 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Guinea town; also Hawaiian/Spanish name forms meaning 'crowned with laurels' / 'full-grown, strong'.
as a nameAfrican Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melob. 1699PTnot in their usual namePortuguese noble and diplomat (1699–1782)
- Lola Montezb. 1821IEIrish dancer and actress (1821–1861)
- Lola Falanab. 1942USAmerican singer, dancer, and actress
- Lola Dueñasb. 1971ESSpanish actress
- Lola Glaudinib. 1971USAmerican actress
- Lola Pagnanib. 1972ITItalian actress
- Lola Karimova-Tillyaevab. 1978UZUzbekistani diplomat
- Lola Dewaereb. 1979FRFrench actress
- Lola Kirkeb. 1990USEnglish-born American actress
- Lola Bessisb. 1992FRFrench actress and film director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 127 sources across 63 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 77K | #44 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 41K | #1,022 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 27K | #277 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 23K | #173 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 1.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 1.1K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 350 | #352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 103 | #1,022 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 82 | #95 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Lola?
- In the etymology graph, Dolores, Lolita and Dolly are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Lola come from?
- Common hypocoristic of Dolores; in Sicily also a short form of Lorenza. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- Is Lola a male or female name?
- Lola is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lola mean?
- In French, Short form of Dolores; from Spanish dolor, 'pain, sorrow'.
- In which country does Lola have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 41 thousand people named Lola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lola.
- How common is the name Lola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,482 people named Lola in 2020, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Lola compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Lola is the 94th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Lola?
- A machine transcription gives /loʊlə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Lola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lolaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lola” — the 94th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.