Sol
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Sol 'sun', name of the sun god; in Spain also feminine given name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɔl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sol is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil≈1 in 85K
- CLChile≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latin Sol 'sun', name of the sun god; in Spain also feminine given name.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sol 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 1.7K | Sol | 92 |
| FR France | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 201 | — | 3 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Sol | 86 |
| CN China | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Sol | 8 |
| US United States | 1,044 | 1 in 319K | 4K | — | 259 |
| CL Chile | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 69 | Sol | 69 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sol | 27 |
| PT Portugal | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Sol | 39 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sol is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, In a movable-do or tonic sol-fa system: the fifth step in a scale, preceded by fa and followed by la.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Roman sun god
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Spanish: the sun
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In cau-lzg-pro, 1 gullet 2 top (of boot)
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Avicebronb. 1021ESnot in their usual name11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher
- Solomon Northupb. 1808USnot in their usual namefree-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
- Solomon Lefschetzb. 1884USnot in their usual nameJewish American mathematician (1884-1972)
- S. W. R. D. Bandaranaikeb. 1899LKnot in their usual name4th Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1956-59
- Saul Bellowb. 1915USnot in their usual nameCanadian-American writer (1915–2005)
- Stubby Kayeb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1918-1997)
- Armando Calderón Solb. 1948SVPresident of El Salvador (1948-2017)
- Ben Carsonb. 1951USnot in their usual nameNeurosurgeon and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Sol Campbellb. 1974GBEnglish footballer and manager (born 1974)
- Sol Bambab. 1985FRfootball player and manager (1985–2024)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 93 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4K | #3,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.4K | #3,352 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.7K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #5,849 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 655 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 502 | #14,264 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 389 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 219 | #5,849 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 184 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 30 | #3,024 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sol mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Sol 'sun', name of the sun god; in Spain also feminine given name. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Sol?
- A machine transcription gives /sɔl/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- How common is the name Sol?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,044 people named Sol in 2010, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
- In which country does Sol have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Sol in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sol.
What do you want to know about Sol?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solThe 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, “Sol”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.