Sol

Sol: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning: “sun”
Origin: Spanish
Say it: SOHL · 1 syllable
Used for: Both (31% girls, 69% boys since 1880)

Used as a given name in Spanish and Portuguese, from sol 'sun'. It can also be short for Soledad in Spanish naming tradition.

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How popular is Sol?

2024157 per million US babies

Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

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Babies named Sol in 2024522

2024 rank#818 girls

Peak year1913

Total US babies since 188011,807

Sol is rising: use over the last five years is 3.5× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Sol

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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TrinidadTrinity · Spanish
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Sol questions

What does the name Sol mean?

Sol means "sun". It comes from Spanish. Used as a given name in Spanish and Portuguese, from sol 'sun'. It can also be short for Soledad in Spanish naming tradition.

Is Sol a boy or girl name?

Sol is used for both: about 31% of US babies named Sol since 1880 were girls.

How popular is Sol?

522 US babies were named Sol in 2024. Its peak year was 1913.

How do you pronounce Sol?

Sol is usually pronounced SOHL.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.