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Solon

#13,623 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly lump of iron

Solon has been given to 1,351 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #13,623 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Solon, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Solon: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly lump of iron

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Solon means

Solon may mean “lump of iron”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Solon is used in Ancient Greek.

Another recorded pronunciation is /só.lɔːn/ for Solon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,351 boys were recorded with the name Solon between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1916; its best national rank was #528 in 1881.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,826 in 2020 to #13,623 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,441 in 2015 to #13,623 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 Solon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,623
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Solon 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Solon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Solons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Solon was born before 1940 — so the typical Solon is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
568
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Choose a decade

1920s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (227).

Is Solon 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
−5,943
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,797
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,182
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 1916 (33)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#528
1881

Spellings of Solon

Solon is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 22.4% against Solon's 0.20%.

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 Solon is used

Across 1910–2025, Solon was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 584,439 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Tennessee1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Solon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Solon around the world

Where Solon 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.

  • South Australia
    1973–1973
    #454
    in 1973

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Solon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,623
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,797
Best rank ever
#528
1881
Peak year
1916
33 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,351
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Solon

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

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Sibling names for Solon

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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