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Sole

#6,518 in 2025Girls' name

Sun

Sole has been given to 561 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #6,518 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Sole, 2025

1 in 184,000

Sole over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sole: meaning, origin, and history

Sun

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sole means

Sole means “sun”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sole is used in Asturian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Soledá.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Sole is pronounced /ˈsole/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 561 girls were recorded with the name Sole between 1999 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,059 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,887 in 2020 to #6,518 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,712 in 2015 to #6,518 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sole?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,518
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sole sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sole. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sole was born before 2009 — so the typical Sole is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
51.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
561
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 51.9% of all recorded uses (291).

Is Sole rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+376
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,369
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,194
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.1%
Peak was 2000 (46)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,059
2000

Spellings of Sole

Sole is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 37.2% against Sole's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sole is used

Across 1910–2025, Sole was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 651,834 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sole has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sole around the world

Where Sole ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • France
    2008–2025
    #7,306
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sole by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,518
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,369
Best rank ever
#3,059
2000
Peak year
2000
46 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
561
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Sole

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sole

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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