Soley
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈsoʊɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 100K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 510K
- FOFaroe Islands≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
652 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Faroe Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 652 | 1 in 510K | 760 | Soley | 208 |
| ES Spain | — | 500 | 1 in 100K | 500 | Soley | 73 |
| IN India | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Soley | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 234K | 449 | Soley | 78 |
| PY Paraguay | #725 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Soley | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | #589 | 152 | 1 in 34K | 152 | Soley | 24 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 785 | — | 1 |
| FO Faroe Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 43 | — | 3 |
652 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Soley is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In crs, the sun
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joan Goula i Soleyb. 1843ESCatalan composer and conductor (1843-1917)
- James R. Soleyb. 1850USAmerican naval historian (1850-1911)
- Jordi Pujolb. 1930ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Clive Soley, Baron Soleyb. 1939GBBritish politician (born 1939)
- Jorge Soley Climentb. 1942ESSpanish university teacher, economist
- Steve Soleyb. 1971GBEnglish footballer (born 1971)
- Todd Soleyb. 1979USAmerican actor
- Nona Sobob. 2000ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress
- Ramón SoleyRamonSoley
- Courtney K. SoleyUSassistant professor of clinical emergency medicine
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 202 | #36,840 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #43,371 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 29 | #4,645 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 24 | #23,976 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 13 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #36,840 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 11 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Soley?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsoʊɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 652 people named Soley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soley.
- How common is the name Soley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 652 people named Soley in 2010, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
- How common is Soley compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Soley is the 589th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soleyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Soley” — the 589th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.