Lolita
Lolita is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 468th, in 1963.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1963432 births
- Best rank
- #468in 1963
- Since 1890
- 8,655people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,655 girls have been named Lolita in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1963, with 432 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 432 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1963, and the 1960s alone account for 29%. It has spent 51 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lolita | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 31 | |
| 1900s | 168 | |
| 1910s | 299 | |
| 1920s | 600 | |
| 1930s | 647 | |
| 1940s | 715 | |
| 1950s | 978 | |
| 1960s | 2,496 | |
| 1970s | 1,348 | |
| 1980s | 663 | |
| 1990s | 241 | |
| 2000s | 233 | |
| 2010s | 179 | |
| 2020s | 57 |
In 1963, its biggest year
Lolita was the 468th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1963 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1963.
Names that rose and fell with Lolita
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Reginapeak 1962
- Monettepeak 1962
- Benitapeak 1961
- Willettepeak 1965
- Coreenpeak 1968
- Renettapeak 1962
- Reginiapeak 1962
- Felicepeak 1970
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.