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Soleil

#758 in 2025Girls' name

Sun

Soleil has been given to 5,172 babies in the U.S. since 1981. In 2025 it ranked #758 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 358 recorded.

Babies named Soleil, 2025

1 in 9,260

Soleil over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Soleil: meaning, origin, and history

Sun

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Soleil means

Soleil means “sun”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,130 girls were recorded with the name Soleil between 1981 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 358 in 2025; its best national rank was #758 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,199 in 2020 to #758 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,829 in 2015 to #758 in 2025.

In the United States, 42 boys were recorded with the name Soleil between 2019 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,126 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,759 in 2020 to #7,126 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.

How common is Soleil?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,260
358 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,490
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#758
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,420 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Soleil 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,420 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Soleil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Soleils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Soleil was born before 2014 — so the typical Soleil is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,130
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (1,677).

Is Soleil 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
+67
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+441
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,071
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (358)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#758
2025

Spellings of Soleil

Soleil is the most-used spelling, taking 62.9% of the 8,156 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Soleil is used

Across 2016–2025, Soleil was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 3,226 girls, against 1 in 6,270 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

131 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 3,226
  2. 2California1 in 3,704
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,846
  4. 4New York1 in 3,846
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in 4,000
  6. 6Hawaii1 in 4,348
  7. 7Rhode Island1 in 4,348
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 4,545

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.

Soleil around the world

Where Soleil 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
    2005–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • France
    1996–2025
    #4,916
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1993–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. 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 Soleil

People whose public names include Soleil, 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.

Soleil in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Soleil. Linked forms have their own page here.

SolSole

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Soleil by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 441
Best rank ever
#758
2025
Peak year
2025
358 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,130
Count in 2025
358

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,126
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,633
Best rank ever
#7,126
2025
Peak year
2025
12 that year
First recorded
2019
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
42
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Soleil

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

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Names with a curve like Soleil

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

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Sibling names for Soleil

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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