Girl
Lola
As a girl's name, Lola traces back to Spanish, where it is understood to mean "Spanish, sorrows". It settled in after its 1920s peak and has held its ground ever since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1919 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
EtymologyDiminutive of Dolores
SpanishSpanish – "sorrows"
Births by decade
1900s
5,964
1910s
11,814
1920s
14,746
1930s
10,454
1940s
7,662
1950s
5,541
1960s
2,865
1970s
1,590
1980s
853
1990s
526
2000s
7,812
2010s
11,198
Peaked in the 1920s · 81,025 total U.S. births since 1900