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Solly

Boys' name

Diminutive of Solomon

Solly has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1913. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Solly, 2020

1 in 668,000

Solly over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Solly: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Solomon

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Solly means

Solly is a diminutive of Solomon.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Solly is used in Jewish.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Solly → Solomon. The family’s meaning is “peace”, recorded in English with the source elements šālōm.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Solomon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 boys were recorded with the name Solly between 1913 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,240 in 1913.

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 Solly?

Solly had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Solly 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Solly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sollys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Solly was born before 1922 — so the typical Solly is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
21
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Choose a decade

1920s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Solly 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (12)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,240
1913

Spellings of Solly

Solly is not the most common spelling — Billy is, with 65.5% against Solly's 0.03%.

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 Solly is used

Across 1910–2025, Solly was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,332,384 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Solly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Solly around the world

Where Solly 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
    2004–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2012
    #5,754
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Solly by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,240
1913
Peak year
1917
12 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Solly

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

SolarSolanSolaceSoloSolisNellySolarisSoleilSolenOllySolimanSolonSolmonRollyTallySollieSolaireSolasSullyRallyCullySolanoTullyJolly

Sibling names for Solly

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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