Sol

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sol: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sol: Recorded since 1947, with a gap of 16 years, its highest recorded position is #139, reached in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
96times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#139highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Sol's record

Absent from every published list for 16 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2012	#3681
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2016	#4096
2017	#5765
2019	#3151
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#3598
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 45 of the 79 years from 1947 to 2025.

In 2025: #139 among girls in Norway, #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1947–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1947
First recorded at #394 among girls in Norway in 1947 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1947–2025
Highest recorded position: #139 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1947–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #139 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Sol appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 45 years beginning in 1947, and has registered 658 births with the name.

Sol across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sol's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#394 (1947)	#139 (2025)	#139 (2025)	45 of 79	658 (1947–2025)	40 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#356 (2000)	#945 (2024)	29 of 29	1,093 (1996–2024)	67 (2000)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#243 (2001)	#243 (2001)	#418 (2019)	6 of 19	21 (2001–2019)	4 (2001)
England and Wales · Girls	#5545 (2008)	#3015 (2024)	#3015 (2024)	11 of 17	52 (2008–2024)	8 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#500 (2003)	#500 (2003)	#713 (2016)	4 of 14	12 (2003–2016)	3 (2003)

Sol by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sol in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	4	1 of 10	4
1960s	13	3 of 10	4
1970s	6	1 of 10	6
1980s	21	4 of 10	5
1990s	116	10 of 10	12
2000sbusiest	199	10 of 10	20
2010s	180	10 of 10	18
2020s	119	6 of 10	20

Across Norway · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Sol appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1947 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #139 in Norway in 2025.

Sol's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#945	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#965	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#878	35	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1117	25	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#898	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3151	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#952	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#985	29	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#931	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#974	30	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1327	19	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#988	29	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1044	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#866	35	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#798	38	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#878	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#831	34	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#775	37	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#589	50	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#582	50	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#557	48	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#454	59	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#432	59	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#382	62	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#375	64	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#356	67	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#440	49	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#477	41	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#418	3	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#328	4	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	male	#307	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	male	#264	4	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	male	#243	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#139	40	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#220	20	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#201	24	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#314	12	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#332	10	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#298	13	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#292	14	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#266	17	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#296	16	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#297	17	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#322	15	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#282	18	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#261	21	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#283	18	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#323	15	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#205	29	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#225	25	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#192	32	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#302	16	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#250	20	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#211	27	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#372	11	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#322	13	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#251	18	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#211	24	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#318	13	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#237	20	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#208	24	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#312	13	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#501	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#343	12	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#545	6	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#547	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#522	7	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#527	7	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#343	14	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#645	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#622	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#608	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#553	6	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#503	6	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#525	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#551	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#536	4	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#394	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#500	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1947 and 2025, ranked in 45 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #139, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 67 births, registered in England and Wales in 2000.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 16 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 56 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sohan · #1410, 25y
Sohrab · #2248, 13y
Solbjørg · #87, 44y
Soleil · #1894, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mac · #139, 41y
Arron · #138, 44y
Bartosz · #148, 49y
Aran · #149, 43y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Abdul · #138, 81y
Kari-Anne · #140, 40y
Oddlaug · #140, 21y
Åsmund · #137, 81y

Sol was ranked #139 in Norway · Girls in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sol and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sol without appearing here.

Sol moved ahead of

Hayden Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2346 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Teddy Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3598 and #2689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #5891.
Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #2020 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #356 and #3036.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #5765 and #2201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #3151 and #5591.

Moved ahead of Sol

Meabh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3681 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2887.
Theodor Compare
In 2014 they stood at #988 and #1012 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1327 and #873.
Martine Compare
In 1980 they stood at #503 and #611 in Norway · Girls; by 1981 that had become #553 and #226.
Amalie Compare
In 1987 they stood at #622 and #631 in Norway · Girls; by 1988 that had become #645 and #364.

Moved the opposite way to Sol

Anne Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 while Åse went from #23 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 while Aud went from #13 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 while Bjørg went from #6 to #369.

Moved the same way as Sol

Anna Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 and Anna from #46 to #23.
Elise Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 and Elise from #245 to #63.
Ella Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 and Ella from #178 to #4.
Ellinor Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Sol went from #394 to #139 and Ellinor from #105 to #7.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1947 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #139 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sol

Sol at a glance

What stands out in Sol's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sol across 5 official records

Sol by decade in Norway · Girls

Sol appears in

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Sol at a glance

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Sol across 5 official records

Sol by decade in Norway · Girls

Sol appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

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Sol and the names beside it

Sol moved ahead of

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