girls:
4.4k births since 1981
#2557 (55th percentile)
boys:
21 births since 2019
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1981
#4096 (47th percentile)
The name Soleil is the #4,096 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,453 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 47.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,557 (55.3% percentile) for all time with 4,432 births since 1981. For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 2019.
Soleil first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for girls and 2019 for boys). Birth data for Soleil is available in 41 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (41 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Soleil has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Soleil reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 27.5% percentile (ranked #695) with 149 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 150 births per million (ranked 26.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Soleil is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #693 (26.9% percentile) with 150 births per million.
For boys, Soleil reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #923) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Soleil".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Soleil. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.0% confident that Soleil is pronounced as soh-LAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is soh-LAYL, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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