do you like Lola?

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My sister in law is thinking of Lola if she has a girl.
Does anybody like it?

Nancy, that's the danger of choosing an unusual name suppose. Or not the danger, but the small risk.

eg, if somebody called their daughter Myrtle and it was just very old-lady chic, unusual and ahead of the fashion curve, then the parents could pat themselves on the back. But then if it turned out that a Myrtle had murdered a child.......the name would be toxic overnight, and the child would be stuck with a name forever associated with something awful.

Myrtle just an example. I like the name!

Sorry, but I wouldn't use it. Whenever I hear it, it makes me think 'tart'. If you're cool with that, then go ahead and use it, but do be aware that some people will think 'tart' whenever they hear your daughter's name. I know I always think it.

You could always go for Dolores which is the traditional long version of Lola.

prefer lois

Just called our baby Tortoise Lola .....

Dolores is Lolita's full name, isn't it?

Definitely a no-no for most people...

surrey lady
I kept reading your post and thought Tortoise was and odd fist name Lola middle name IYKWIM

PMSL - I too thought Surrey had called her baby: Tortoise Lola

oooops - off to practice my punctuation - in my defence it has been a while since I was in education.....lovely tortoise though Lola!

Dolores is Lolita's full name but I don't think many people would know that (unless they had read the book of course).

I don't really know what the big deal is about Lolita anyway - people haven't stopped using the name Joseph because of Stalin or Emma because of Bovary.

Sorry, I've got a cob on tonight.

Me too re Tortoise Lola!!!
(Well, some people do go in for unusual names...)

After I read Lolita (aged 15), I planned to call my as-then-non-existent DD Lolita. Probably just as well I changed my mind meanwhile!

there are also lots of Lolas here in west london turniphead....................

And a smattering of them here in the furthest reaches of SW London too - it had been my chosen abbreviation for my DDs name but now I just don't abbreviate it. Too common. And what with all the Leilas, Lilys and Lylas you could never be sure of getting your own kid back if you yelled it in Sainsburys.

My youngest dd is Lola and I love it. I wasn't sure at first but everyone said it was a lovely name and so it ended up being her name.

I'm now going to run away before I say something horrible back to some of the comments abouti t!!!

I love it too - I just got a bit exasperated by it's sudden surge in popularity after I had gone to the effort of finding her a first name which is as rare as hens teeth in this country AND can be abbreviated to Lola (which was a requirement for her name).

I have a Lola. I love it. I'm not a prostitute or a hippy, I have read Lolita but don't asssociate the name Lola with Lolita and don't see it as a remotely sexual name obviously. My mother like lots of you said it sounded like a lap dancing transexual. Pah.

She's six so came before the Charlie and Lola books and we didn't know any others at the time, now they're popping up now.

I have a Lola and I love it too

And mine is named after a fab jazz song (fave of my dear pa's) called 'Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets'!!

I love love Lola, such a cute name...I guess it probably is quite popular now which can put people off. Still, it's a lovely name I reckon!

I think Lola is a beautiful name. It's "exotic" but not "sexual" as others may think. It's also not "boring" and certainly "attractive."

Not keen i have to say. Too 'of the moment' tbh and think it will go out of fashion as quick!

i've got that bloody saccharine-sweet charlie and lola theme running through my head now
nah, bin it....other posters are right - too "of the moment"

I think it's gorgeous.