Solomon

maleStatistical record

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

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

Solomon: Recorded since 1962, it reached #216 in 1999, and it stood at #676 in 2025.

5registrars recorded it
85times a registrar ranked it
64years from first to last
#216highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#369
1997	#348
1998	#282
1999	#216
2000	#234
2001	#235
2002	#269
2003	#241
2004	#246
2005	#245
2006	#251
2007	#291
2008	#314
2009	#280
2010	#301
2011	#317
2012	#319
2013	#338
2014	#320
2015	#295
2016	#369
2017	#352
2018	#351
2019	#341
2020	#390
2021	#381
2022	#407
2023	#439
2024	#427

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 28 of the 37 years from 1962 to 1998.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #427 among boys in England and Wales, #472 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #619 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1962–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1962
First recorded at #509 among boys in Norway in 1962 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #216 among boys in England and Wales, in 1999 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #676 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Solomon appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 3,578 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Boys, from 1962.

Solomon across 4 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.

Solomon'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 · Boys	#509 (1962)	#379 (1989)	#587 (1998)	28 of 37	167 (1962–1998)	12 (1989)
England and Wales · Boys	#369 (1996)	#216 (1999)	#427 (2024)	29 of 29	3,578 (1996–2024)	158 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#409 (2001)	#268 (2005)	#676 (2025)	21 of 25	110 (2001–2025)	10 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#339 (2010)	#339 (2010)	#404 (2024)	6 of 15	20 (2010–2024)	4 (2010)

Solomon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Solomon in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	361	4 of 10	90
2000s	1,330	10 of 10	133
2010sbusiest	1,373	10 of 10	137
2020s	514	5 of 10	103

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 137 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1998 and 1999, when recorded births rose by 49, from 92 to 141.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Solomon 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 5 regions, from 1962 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #216 in England and Wales in 1999.

Solomon'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	male	#427	94	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#439	90	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#407	104	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#381	117	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#390	109	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#341	130	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#351	130	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#352	135	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#369	126	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#295	158	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#320	142	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#338	122	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#319	141	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#317	140	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#301	149	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#280	153	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#314	128	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#291	132	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#251	150	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#245	142	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#246	134	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#241	132	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#269	104	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#235	126	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#234	129	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#216	141	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#282	92	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#348	68	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#369	60	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#395	3	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#416	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#342	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#587	4	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#431	8	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#541	5	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#632	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#546	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#644	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#379	12	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#648	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#550	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#481	8	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#646	4	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#636	4	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#475	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#516	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#546	6	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#636	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#566	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#521	6	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#446	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#439	9	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#564	5	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#454	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#472	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#444	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#550	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#503	5	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#523	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#509	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	8	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#414	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#554	5	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#508	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#404	9	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#548	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#604	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#473	5	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	10	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#390	5	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#313	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#409	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	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
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1962 and 2025, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #216, first reached in 1999.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 158 births, registered in England and Wales in 2015.

Its record falls into 7 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 62 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.

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Solrun · #240, 41y
Solvår · #207, 44y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 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.

Amal · #208, 62y
Adriana · #226, 60y
Betty · #200, 58y
Andrei · #239, 53y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Canice · #216, 20y
Donall · #215, 23y
Ethel · #217, 45y
Nula · #215, 17y

Solomon was ranked #216 in England and Wales · Boys in 1999. 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.

Solomon 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 Solomon without appearing here.

Solomon moved ahead of

Markus Compare
In 2020 they stood at #637 and #556 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #414 and #755.
Taylor Compare
In 2023 they stood at #637 and #496 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2024 that had become #472 and #785.
Wayne Compare
In 1997 they stood at #348 and #323 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #282 and #490.
Garry Compare
In 2006 they stood at #596 and #493 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2007 that had become #473 and #629.

Moved ahead of Solomon

Jan Compare
In 2005 they stood at #268 and #370 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2006 that had become #596 and #247.
Jayden Compare
In 2005 they stood at #268 and #302 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2006 that had become #596 and #247.
Phillip Compare
In 1997 they stood at #431 and #554 in Norway · Boys; by 1998 that had become #587 and #249.
Liam Compare
In 1997 they stood at #431 and #456 in Norway · Boys; by 1998 that had become #587 and #275.

Moved the opposite way to Solomon

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Solomon went from #216 to #427 while Arlo went from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Solomon went from #216 to #427 while Harper went from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Solomon went from #216 to #427 while Kasper went from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Solomon went from #216 to #427 while Rune went from #2943 to #1460.

Moved the same way as Solomon

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Solomon went from #409 to #676 and Aaron from #12 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Solomon went from #409 to #676 and Adam from #3 to #20.
Adrian Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Solomon went from #409 to #676 and Adrian from #156 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Solomon went from #409 to #676 and Alan from #59 to #232.

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 5 regions, from 1962 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #216 in England and Wales in 1999. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Solomon

Solomon at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Solomon across 4 official records

Solomon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Solomon appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Solomon and the names beside it

Solomon moved ahead of

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Solomon at a glance

Solomon across 4 official records

Solomon by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Solomon appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Solomon

Solomon and the names beside it

Solomon moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Solomon

Moved the opposite way to Solomon

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