girls:
3.4k births since 1953
#2985 (48th percentile)
boys:
7.9k births since 1880
#1325 (71st percentile)
overall:
11.3k births since 1880
#2475 (68th percentile)
The name Sol is the #2,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,284 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 68.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,325 (71.1% percentile) for all time with 7,913 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,985 (47.8% percentile) for all time with 3,371 births since 1953.
Sol has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1953 for girls).
The name Sol has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 33.1% of babies named Sol were boys. Interestingly, until around 1990, the name was more popular for boys (93.8% boys from 1880 to 1989), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (64.7% girls from 1990 to 2023).
For boys, Sol reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 46.6% percentile (ranked #284) with 306 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 407 births per million (ranked 43.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sol ranks #767 for boys (15.8% percentile) with 81 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sol reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 33.5% percentile (ranked #637) with 187 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 187 births per million (ranked 33.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2014, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Sol ranks #659 for girls (30.4% percentile) with 172 births per million, which is 92.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sol".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sol. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.3% confident that Sol is pronounced as sohl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sahl, at 45.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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