Solá
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular voseo imperative of solar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Solá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 3K(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 6.7K
- HRCroatia1 in 9.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Solá itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Sale, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sala in AR Argentina, PH Philippines, IT Italy and 1 more and Sola in ES Spain, SV El Salvador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)second-person singular voseo imperative of solar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Solá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Sala | 37 |
| IT Italy | #115 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 12 | Sala | 167 |
| ES Spain | #114 | 16,413 | 1 in 3K | 16K | Sola | 176 |
| PH Philippines | #834 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sala | 55 |
| AR Argentina | #418 | 6,117as Sala | 1 in 7.4K | 6.1K | Sala | 84 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,164as Sele | 1 in 4.7K | 1.2K | — | 13 |
| SV El Salvador | #438 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Sola | 25 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Manuel Soláb. 1798ARArgentinian military personnel
- Ramón de Godoyb. 1867ESnot in their usual nameSpanish writer
- Eduardo Sánchez Soláb. 1869ESSpanish painter (1869-1949)
- Jaime Soláb. 1874ESSpanish journalist
- Lluís Solà Padrób. 1891ESSpanish politician (1891-1939)
- Emma Solá de Soláb. 1900ARArgentinian writer
- Eduardo Solá Francob. 1915USartist (1915-1996)
- Josep Maria Solà-Soléb. 1924ESSpanish arabist, philologist and writer (1924-2003)
- Monina Soláb. 1933DODominican actress
- Miguel Ángel Soláb. 1950ARArgentinian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Solá mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular voseo imperative of solar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Solá have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 113 thousand people named Sale in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Solá most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Solá is densest in Spain — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Solá?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16,413 people named Solá, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Solá compared with other names?
- In Spain, Solá is the 114th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sol%C3%A1The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Solá” — the 114th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.