Soleil
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Soleil is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: sun (star).
- FRFrance1 in 366K◐
- ALAlbania1 in 28K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 91K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.7K ●
- Sources
- 187 ●
- 1 in 28K ◐
across 11 countries
5.4K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Meaning & origin●
sun (star)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,267△ | 101 rec. | 1 in 102K | 3.3K | Soleil | 41 |
| FR France | 1,442 | 4.8K rec. | — | 95 | Soleil | 187 |
| NL Netherlands | 170△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 102K | 170 | — | 5 |
| AL Albania | 111 | — | 1 in 28K | 111 | — | — |
| CA Canada | 88 | 109 rec. | — | 7 | Soleil | 23 |
| SE Sweden | 84 | — | 1 in 121K | 84 | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | 36 | 36 rec. | — | 1 | Soleil | 5 |
| ES Spain | 23△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 2.2M | 23 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 16 | — | 1 in 348K | 25 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | 14 | 14 rec. | — | — | Soleil | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 88 rec. | — | 91 | Soleil | 24 |
| CM Cameroon | 12 | 45 rec. | — | — | Soleil | 3 |
Roughly 3.3K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 102K). 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●
- English3.7K39%
- Spanish2K21%
- French1.6K17%
- Western Frisian2453%
- Portuguese1732%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 3,682 | 39% |
| Spanish | 2,022 | 21% |
| French | 1,634 | 17% |
| Western Frisian | 245 | 3% |
| Portuguese | 173 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Soleil is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, French: sun
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In Romanian, SOLÉIL adv. (Despre obiecte plisate) În formă de raze. ◊ (Adjectival) Fustă soleil. [Pr.: soléi].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 29 |
| 1986 | 19 |
| 1987 | 18 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 29 |
| 1990 | 21 |
| 1991 | 20 |
| 1992 | 16 |
| 1993 | 22 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 27 |
| 1996 | 24 |
| 1997 | 24 |
| 1998 | 32 |
| 1999 | 71 |
| 2000 | 90 |
| 2001 | 97 |
| 2002 | 128 |
| 2003 | 142 |
| 2004 | 119 |
| 2005 | 102 |
| 2006 | 154 |
| 2007 | 195 |
| 2008 | 203 |
| 2009 | 192 |
| 2010 | 195 |
| 2011 | 190 |
| 2012 | 179 |
| 2013 | 171 |
| 2014 | 153 |
| 2015 | 114 |
| 2016 | 137 |
| 2017 | 133 |
| 2018 | 158 |
| 2019 | 208 |
| 2020 | 192 |
| 2021 | 259 |
| 2022 | 268 |
| 2023 | 266 |
| 2024 | 334 |
| 2025 | 358 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1981–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Soleil Divab. 1956CDmusical artist
- Soleil Rasoafaniryb. 1972MGMalagasy judo athlete
- Soleil Moon Fryeb. 1976USAmerican actress, director, screenwriter (born 1976)
- Soleil Sorgeb. 1994ITAmerican naturalized Italian model, television presenter, television personality, influencer, showgirl and columnist
- Soleil LaunièreCAperforming artist in Canada
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 50 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 254 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Soleil?
- We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear Soleil (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Soleil have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.3 thousand people bear Soleil in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled soleil.
- Where is Soleil most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soleil is densest in Albania — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Soleil a male or female name?
- Soleil is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Soleil mean?
- Recorded meaning: sun (star)
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About this data
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, “Soleil”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.