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Encyclopedia > Lolita (name)

Lolita (IPA /lɒlˈiːtə/ or /ləˈliːtə/; AmE /loʊˈliːtə/)[1] is a female given name of Spanish origin. It is the diminutive form of Lola, itself a diminutive form of Dolores (Spanish: suffering). The name was made famous by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita. Due to its associations with the novel's title character, the name has acquired the meaning of a sexually precocious girl.[1] Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... For other uses, see American English (disambiguation). ... Look up Appendix:Most popular given names by country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Lola Racing Cars (also Lola Cars International) is a racing car engineering company founded in 1961 by Eric Broadley and based in Huntingdon, United Kingdom. ... Dolores is a common Spanish given name, it literally means pains; it is short for la Virgen María de los Dolores, Virgin Mary of the Pains (Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows). ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American author. ... Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. ... Lolita is a slang term for a seductive, sexually attractive, or sexually precocious young girl. ...


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According to the United States Social Security Administration, the popularity of the name Lolita peaked in the United States in 1963, when it was the 467th most popular female name. The name's popularity dropped since then; the SSA has not ranked Lolita in the top 1000 most popular female names since 1973.[2] Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ... The United States Social Security Administration (or SSA[1]) is an independent agency of the United States government established by a law currently codified at 42 U.S.C. Â§ 901. ...


According to the 1990 US Census, Lolita was ranked the 969th most frequent female name out of 4,275 unique names.[3] The Twenty-first United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9. ...


References

  1. ^ a b Lolita. Compact Oxford English Dictionary. AskOxford.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
  2. ^ Popular Baby Names. Social Security Administration (2007-05-14). Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
  3. ^ dist.female.first. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.

 

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