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Solen

#11,796 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Solen has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #11,796 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% boys, 42% girls all-time.

Babies named Solen, 2025

1 in 553,000

Solen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Solen over time

In 2025, Solen went to 50% girls and 50% boys.

20002025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Solen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Solen means

Solen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Solen is used in Breton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Solen between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2000; its best national rank was #10,168 in 2000.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Solen between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2024; its best national rank was #13,295 in 2024.

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 Solen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,796
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Solen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Solen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Solens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Solen was born before 2012 — so the typical Solen is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
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Choose a decade

2000s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Solen 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2000 (6)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,168
2000

Spellings of Solen

Solen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 18.9% against Solen's <0.01%.

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.

Solen around the world

Where Solen 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
    1976–2025
    #5,855
    in 2025

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Solen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,796
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,168
2000
Peak year
2000
6 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,702
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#13,295
2024
Peak year
2024
7 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Solen

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

SolasSolisSolanoXalenSoliSoleilCylenSolarXailenSaylenWhelenJeylenSoloSolaireSolanJelenSolsticeNaylenXylenWeslenDolenWylenMalenJylen

Sibling names for Solen

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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