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I think Lola is best suited to a car or a pet, if it has to be used at all. I have never liked it. It has a trashy, desperately-trying-to-be-sexy vibe to it that is also very dated at the same time. It just sounds like somebody in the mid-20th-century with a mass of badly dyed and permed hair with a ton of spray on it, dragon-lady fingernails, jeans halfway up inside her butt, spiky heels and a cigarette glued in the corner of her mouth, hanging around a bar talking too loud and fawning over every man who comes near her hoping he'll buy her another martini.

It seems somewhat sleazy to me, because of the Nabakov novel and the Kinks song. Good name for a car, though. One of our cars is named Nigel, and I named the Jeep Roy, but those are names we wouldn't give a child.

Like others have said, I think it has a kind of cheap, trying-to-be sexy vibe. It's quite popular and trendy where I live, along with similar (imo) names like Lexi, Layla and Lacey, so I'm a bit bored of hearing it.

This message was edited 5/18/2017, 8:33 AM

I like it. It's cute, short and sweet, but fun, energetic, and playful too. It's on my guilty pleasure list because it's really popular where I live, but I think it's an awesome name.

I think maybe it's cute? It's hard to tell, all I can think about is Copa Cabana. Now it's in my head. Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl!

I used to dislike Lola, but it's really been growing on me as of late.

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I honestly don't think Lola's that bad. Personally, I wish people would stop using Lola as names for trashy characters in songs and movies. Most Lolas I've seen in fiction were either trashy, mean-spirited, or flat-out unlikable. The only Lola I've seen in fiction who's even remotely likable is Lola Bunny, and even then, she's a cartoon rabbit, plus her design is intended to be fanservice-y.

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I feel like Lola's reputation as a trashy/"sexy" name probably originated with Lola Montez.

This message was edited 5/18/2017, 5:05 PM

I love the sound of the name and it looks nice too, but for me it's the meaning. I can't get past the meaning of the name!

Lola sounds cartoonish like a flying pig in children's story. When I hear the name Lola, I imagine a pink pig in a tutu carrying a wand and flying around on the pages of a picture book.