Lola?

[Cosycottage4]

What are people's thoughts on Lola? I keep going hot and cold on it...

It's a very popular name. There are 3 in my daughters class at school. I blame Charlie & Lola for the surge in popularity

I think it sounds like a hamster or a rabbit

My daughter is a Lola. I had her name picked years before we even thought about children. I LOVE it. I did worry about the transvestite/show girl association but that seems silly now. Plus me and DP love the Copacobana song . We don't know any other Lola's here but a girl in her preschool is Loula which is also very pretty sounding and may be a good alternative for you.

I love it. Really love it. But I didn't use it for DD as I thought everyone would laugh behind my back (dull straight laced family)

It was on our list as hubby loves it but I'm not too sure as I know a dog called Lola lol

Am u the only one who hears Lola and thinks... Charlie?

No really don't like it. Sounds like a stripper's name. Loula is cute though! Or Louella - met one recently and it really suited her!

Awful. Baffled at popularity. Cannot imagine calling precious new born Lola. Transvestite stripper name.

It's really awful, sorry.

"She looked like a woman but talked like a man oh my Lola". No. Just don't. It's either that or "she lost her looks and she lost her Tony then she LOST HER MIND" .

One of my cats is called Lola.

Long whiskers, white paws, very pretty and dainty.

There are a lot of Lolas out there, and I'm not even including the ones who taste just like cherry cola.

It's short for Dolores, as is Lolita. In the book Lolita her real name is Dolores and she is also known as Lola or Dolly.

I quite like it, but slightly more unusual alternatives could be Lila or Leila?

Diminutive of Dolores which means pain.

Lola - L O L A - Lola!

Wasn't the kinks song about a prostitute?

There's too many negative song links to the name for me to like it.

Beautiful name

Every other name at a softplay is a Lola, Layla, Lara.

I think it sounds ... almost too grown-up for a child, can't explain why, possibly the connotation with what the PPs have said.

Sorry :(

A most unfortunate name.

I definitely agree with the 'showgirl' assessment, unfortunately.

I do know a Laura who goes by Lola (and she carries it off well), but that was her own choice later once she reached her late teens

Transvestite or show girl.

Or French bulldog (my neighbour has a frenchie caled Lola).

Lullah (loo-lah) is similarish alternative.

Lola is short for Dolores, which literally translated means Pains but it is really named after The Virgin of The Pains, so the one that takes care of people that are in pain.
This is just the origin of the name, you don't have to be religious to use it. It is a very traditional Spanish name and I think it is lovely.
A lot of traditional artists had that name and you can say Lolita as well
Lolo is for a boy and it comes from Manolo.
Most Spanish names come from Virgins: Milagros, Dolores, Consuelo, Rosario (Rosa)... Or Saints: Pedro, Pablo, Jose...

Dolores means sorrow, or grief. Not pain.

I'm firmly in the 'showgirl' camp, I'm afraid. I know two (very nice) young Lolas. One is the youngest of three sisters, who are called Scarlett, Delilah and Lola - which I suppose has the virtue of consistency. The other is one of four. The other three are named Edward, Harriet, Julian - and Lola.