How popular is the name Lolita?

Lolita ranks 1,534th among girls' names in US records, with 8,655 births since 1890. Over the past decade it accounts for 138.

Is Lolita a unisex name?

No. Lolita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1963, when 432 children were given the name. It has been in use for 135 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,534 of girl names

Pronounced L OW0 L IY1 T AH0 (ARPABET)

Lolita is a girls' name, and first appears in 1890. It has been given to 8,655 children — the 1,534th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 138 births across the past decade, against a peak of 432 in a single year. That peak was in 1963.

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Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Lolita?: Lolita ranks 1,534th among girls' names in US records, with 8,655 births since 1890. Over the past decade it accounts for 138.
Is Lolita a unisex name?: No. Lolita is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lolita most popular?: 1963, when 432 children were given the name. It has been in use for 135 years and is still recorded as of 2024.