Highest ever

Soleil

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#758
358 girls
2015
#1,829
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Soleil: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 358 in 2025. Its best rank was #758 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Soleil in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#758 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
370
Since 1880
5,172
Years on record
43

Babies named Soleil, every year since 1880

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Girls

Soleil: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 358 girls in 2025. Peak: #758 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 358 (2025).

About the name Soleil

In 2025, 358 US girls were named Soleil, making it the 758th most common girls’ name of the year, up 67 places from #825 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 334 girls named Soleil in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #758, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 358. For comparison, it was #1,829 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Soleil in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 7 babies. In all, 5,172 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,714 babies named Soleil.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,313 US girls were named Soleil; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 358. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,490 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Soleil ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #164 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sol (12,382 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Soliel are summarised on this page.

Meaning

Meaning not yet researched.

We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.

Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Soliel (93).

Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Soleil in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Soleil by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Hawaii6#164—
Rhode Island6#176—
Connecticut9#348—
Oregon8#475—
Florida38#488#1,620
Nevada6#501—
California63#529#1,168
New York30#565#1,273
Wisconsin7#691—
Massachusetts7#756#951
Pennsylvania13#758#1,602
North Carolina13#774#1,214
Maryland6#829—
Illinois11#849—
Louisiana5#889—
Arizona7#895—
Washington7#901—
Texas32#913#2,185
Ohio10#954—
New Jersey7#1,024#1,049
Colorado5#1,037—
Indiana5#1,184—
Georgia7#1,339—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025358#75812#7,130
2024334#8259#8,889
2023266#973——
2022268#9906#12,117
2021259#9955#13,809
2020192#1,1995#13,765
2019208#1,1575#13,858
2018158#1,421——
2017133#1,634——
2016137#1,611——
2015114#1,829——
2014153#1,468——
2013171#1,369——
2012179#1,320——
2011190#1,260——
2010195#1,239——
2009192#1,271——
2008203#1,241——
2007195#1,266——
2006154#1,453——
2005102#1,907——
2004119#1,640——
2003142#1,410——
2002128#1,492——
200197#1,832——
200090#1,897——
199971#2,152——
199832#3,722——
199724#4,494——
199624#4,443——
199527#3,960——
199416#5,954——
199322#4,652——
199216#5,974——
199120#4,981——
199021#4,675——
198929#3,558——
198812#6,614——
198718#4,639——
198619#4,329——
198529#3,155——
19846#10,221——
19817#8,941——

About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).