Fun Facts About the Name Lolamae
- 89 babies named Lolamae: U.S. records list 89 babies given the name Lolamae from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Lolamae Mean?
Lolamae is a compound given name built from Lola and Mae. Lola is best known as a Spanish pet form of Dolores, a name taken from the title Nuestra Señora de los Dolores ("Our Lady of Sorrows"); its root is Latin dolor, "pain, grief," so the name is commonly glossed as "sorrows." A second explanation treats Lola as a short form of Carlota, the Spanish form of Charlotte (feminine of Charles, "free man"), and both derivations are found. Mae is an English spelling of May, which can be the month name, from Latin Maius and connected by the Romans with the goddess Maia, or a pet form of Margaret ("pearl") or of Mary. The compound carries no single settled meaning; it is generally read as the meanings of its two parts, "sorrows" together with "May" or "pearl."
Lolamae Name History & Origins
Compounds of a short feminine name with Mae or May are an English-language pattern, especially familiar in the southern United States, where names such as Lula Mae, Emma Mae, and Gracie Mae were widely used in the 19th and 20th centuries. In that pattern Mae serves as a second element or middle name, and Lolamae follows it by joining an English Mae to a Spanish-derived Lola. The combined form itself is rare, and it is not documented as far back as either of its parts.
Lola reached English through Spanish. Dolores spread with devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows, a subject of Spanish art and liturgy from the Counter-Reformation onward, and short forms such as Lola became common in Spain and Latin America. In the English-speaking world the name was carried in the 19th century by figures such as Lola Montez (born Marie Dolores Gilbert, 1821 - 1861), an Irish-born dancer who became famous in Europe. Mae became established in English as a spelling of May and later as a frequent middle name; the American actress Mae West (1893 - 1980) is a well-known bearer.
How Popular is the Name Lolamae?
Lolamae has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1922. Its best rank was #3,538 in 1922.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #16,322 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #16,643 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #17,790 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1935 | #4,600 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1927 | #5,262 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1924 | #5,529 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1923 | #4,720 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1922 | #3,538 | 9 | 0.0007% |
| 1921 | #4,269 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1920 | #5,421 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1919 | #4,069 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1918 | #4,100 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1916 | #4,179 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1915 | #3,636 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1914 | #3,945 | 5 | 0.0007% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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