Meanings
lola1
Lola2
proper noun
- A female given name from Spanish.
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance / I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice she said Lola
1970, Ray Davies, “Lola”, performed by The Kinks1 more example
What lovely names for girls there are! There's Stella like the Evening Star, And Sylvia like a rustling tree, And Lola like a melody,
1933, Eleanor Farjeon, “Girls' Names”, in Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber, page 91
Origin
lola · noun
- Tagaloglola
- Tagaloglola
- Englishlola
Borrowed from Tagalog lola.
More words from Tagalog
Full word history & related roots →Lola · proper noun
- Proto-Indo-European*delh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dolh₁éyeti
- Proto-Italic*doleō
- Latindoleō
- Latindolor
- Old Spanishdolor
- Spanishdolor
- Spanishdolores
- SpanishDolores
- SpanishLola
- EnglishLola
Borrowed from Spanish Lola.
More words from Spanish
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with lola
MotorolaAngolacolaPensacolaviolaOsceolacanolaholaRollagondolanolabolagranolaTortolakolaebolamineolaIolamolaApalachicolagorgonzolaareolapayolaHispaniola
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
lola. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lola
MLA
“lola.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lola. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lola,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lola.
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