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How popular is the name Sol?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sols are alive today.
Sol (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 716th in 2025 with 49 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2000, when 67 babies were given the name, the 356th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1327 in 2015 before climbing back to the 716th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Sol you are most likely to meet is around 25 years old. Half of all Sols born in England and Wales are between 9 and 24, and there are at least 1,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Sol - on average, only one in every 276 such rooms contains a Sol.
How many babies are named Sol each year?
Where does Sol rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sol most popular?
Sol peaked in 2000, when 67 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Sol?
At least 1,100 people named Sol born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sol?
Most living Sols are between 9 and 24; the most common age is about 25.
Is Sol becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.