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Soledad

#4,864 in 2025Girls' name

Solitude

Soledad has been given to 4,202 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #4,864 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Soledad, 2025

1 in 118,000

Soledad over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Soledad: meaning, origin, and history

Solitude

Spanish

What Soledad means

Soledad means “solitude”, associated with soledad.

Origin, language, and formation

Soledad is used in Spanish and Tagalog. Its origins include Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include María.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Soledad is pronounced /soleˈdad/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,197 girls were recorded with the name Soledad between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 2006; its best national rank was #992 in 1929.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,290 in 2020 to #4,864 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,839 in 2015 to #4,864 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Soledad between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1990; its best national rank was #9,310 in 1990.

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 Soledad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,864
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Soledad 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soledad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soledads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Soledad was born before 1982 — so the typical Soledad is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
27.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,015
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (702).

Is Soledad 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
−494
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+426
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−25
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.97×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.6%
Peak was 2006 (81)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#992
1929

Where Soledad is used

Across 1910–2025, Soledad was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 22,016 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 11,111
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 25,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 33,333
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Soledad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Soledad around the world

Where Soledad 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.

  • France
    1920–2025
    #2,231
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Soledad

People whose public names include Soledad, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Soledad by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,864
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 426
Best rank ever
#992
1929
Peak year
2006
81 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,197
Count in 2025
28

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,310
1990
Peak year
1990
5 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Soledad

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

SolangeSolanaSoleilSolveigSolianaTrinidadCaridadSolimarSolomiaSolaraSolenneSoleneSolSoleiSoleiaSolarisSolidadSolyanaSoliyanaSolaceSolinaSolomiyaSolihaSolstice

Names with a curve like Soledad

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Soledad, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CandelariaClairKatheryneCelestinaNicolettaMarcelinaSimonaSabinaNanaMaryannaThaisGladis

Sibling names for Soledad

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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