Sole

surname · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sole is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: (1) from OE sol 'mud, wallowing place'; from a miry place, as at Soles, Kent; first attested William de la Sole 1207 Cur (Sx).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 4.4K◐
  • ITItaly1 in 25K
  • ARArgentina1 in 32K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈16K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
132 ●

42K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 4.4K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Solé in FR France, BE Belgium and Şöle in AZ Azerbaijan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Sole: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sole
  1. OEsol●
  2. OFrsol●

(1) from OE sol 'mud, wallowing place'; from a miry place, as at Soles, Kent; first attested William de la Sole 1207 Cur (Sx). (2) from OFr sol 'sole, lonely'; first attested Walter Sole 1203 Cur (Nf)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sole is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#47611,45718K rec.1 in 4.4K11KSole132
IT Italy—1,6882.2K rec.—1KSole85
VE Venezuela—1,5871.6K rec.——Sole18
US United States—1,5111.9K rec.1 in 220K1.6KSole97
AR Argentina—1,43611K rec.1 in 32K1.4KSole52
CL Chile—7461.2K rec.—1Sole28
UY Uruguay—7081.1K rec.—1Sole22
BR Brazil—640429 rec.1 in 331K640Sole57
MX Mexico—551980 rec.—1Sole34
PE Peru—321607 rec.——Sole20
TR Türkiye—289390 rec.——Sole15
GT Guatemala—225277 rec.——Sole9

Roughly 11K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 4.4K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish58K52%
  • English18K17%
  • Catalan11K10%
  • French6.6K6%
  • Hindi2.9K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish57,79252%
English18,28917%
Catalan11,46110%
French6,6316%
Hindi2,8923%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sole is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname25K records spelled Sole23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Portuguese

    Also written Solé, Soele, Sole', Solè, Söle

  • Hindi surname3.6K records spelled Sole4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, Italy

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Solé

  • a separate surname1.7K records spelled Sole6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Spain, Italy

    Also written Solé, Solè, Šole, Solë, Sóle

  • Indonesian surname794 records spelled Sole6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, United States, Italy

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Solé, Sólé, Sõlé

  • Finnish surname789 records spelled Sole5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Spain, Italy, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sõle, Solé

  • Lao surname734 records spelled Sole11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Spain, Thailand, United States

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Solé, Solay, Soleil, โซเล่ย์, Solea

52 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sole is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, sole (fish)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Only.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In men, and v., noise, sound, shout; to sing loudly, to shout over

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In men, tar, the odour of fish and other water animals

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Czech, masculine singular present transgressive of solit

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406020002010202046 · 2000

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Sole in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1999–2025
Yearrecords
199910
200046
200124
200239
200332
200423
200527
200623
200725
200823
200929
201024
201123
201215
201319
201421
20159
201614
201711
201810
20198
202012
202120
202219
202320
202417
202518

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 27 years between 1999–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Rafael Bardem, b. 1889Jordi Solé Tura, b. 1930Alfred Sole, b. 1943Joan Massagué Solé, b. 1953Albert Solé i Bruset, b. 1962Jo Sol, b. 1968Bernat Solé i Barril, b. 1975Sebastian Solé, b. 1991Ferrán Solé, b. 1992Bad Gyal, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 56 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Sole
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—11K#487
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11K#487
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,556
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,337
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.4K#17,835
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.4K—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20241K#35
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—640#13,630
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020475#18,697
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—221#16,549
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—205#13,891
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991201—

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 159 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sole?
We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Sole (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Sole have the most bearers?
We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Sole in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sole.
Where is Sole most common?
Sole is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is Sole compared with other names?
In Spain, Sole is the 476th most common surname of 492,691 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Sole mean?
Recorded meaning: (1) from OE sol 'mud, wallowing place'; from a miry place, as at Soles, Kent; first attested William de la Sole 1207 Cur (Sx).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sole” — the 476th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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