Lola

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Lola boys named Lola

By the numbers

Total US births

97,167

Estimated living today

46,000

Median age today

17

Peak year

1919

Best rank

142nd

Rank in 2025

275th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

96,892 / 275

How old the living Lolas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 97,167 babies given the name since 1880, about 46,000 are alive — 47 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lolas

• Lola Pagnani (born 1972)Italian actress
• Lola Montez (1821–1861)Irish dancer and actress
• Lola Flores (1923–1995)Spanish actress, dancer and singer
• Lola Albright (1924–2017)American actress and singer
• Lola Dueñas (born 1971)Spanish actress
• Lola Glaudini (born 1971)American actress
• Lola Anglada (1892–1984)Spanish writer, comics artist and illustrator
• Lola Novaković (1935–2016)Serbian singer

People named Lola with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Lola is most common

• TX7,410
• CA6,022
• IL3,372
• NY3,154
• AL3,017
• NC3,010
• OH2,886
• MO2,819
• GA2,742
• KY2,739

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lola is most concentrated in Arkansas (2.7×), Oklahoma (2.4×), Idaho (2.2×), Kansas (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1919

The most popular girls’ names the year Lola peaked:

• Mary
• Helen
• Dorothy
• Margaret
• Ruth
• Mildred

All the names of 1919

Lola elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Lola: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Lola is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.26% of children were given it – 38 of them.

Lola: rank by region

In 2025, Lola was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Lola was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Spain.

In 2024, Lola was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lola appears in the lists for Province of Namur (42nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (48th), Province of Hainaut (51st), Province of Liège (51st), Province of East Flanders (86th), Province of Antwerp (89th) and Brussels-Capital Region (159th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Lola by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Lola among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Lola lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 27,191 women called Lola were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Lolita
• Lollie
• Loleta

Lola against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Lola vs Lolita
• Lola vs Lollie
• Lola vs Loleta

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