Solla
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plaice
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Solla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 24K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 74K
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
2,067 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plaice
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Solla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,067 | 1 in 24K | 2.1K | Solla | 96 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 75K | listed | Solla | 13 |
| AR Argentina | — | 615 | 1 in 74K | 615 | Solla | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 607 | 1 in 349K | 607 | — | 3 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Solla | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 283 | 1 in 12K | 283 | Solla | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 271 | 1 in 21K | 271 | Solla | 15 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #370 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Solla | 8 |
2,067 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Solla is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, first-person plural aorist indicative of sjell
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of sollus:
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)
- Rüdiger Felix Sollab. 1859botanist (1859-)
- Ruggero Sollab. 1859Italian botanist
- Antonio Blanco Sollab. 1897ESSpanish politician (1897-1936)
- Lauri Sollab. 1911FIFinnish politician
- Jesús Solla Oliveirab. 1916ESSpanish politician
- Jorge Sollab. 1961BRBrazilian sanitary doctor and politician
- Carlos Solla Varelab. 1971ESSpanish writer
- Lucía Solla Sobralb. 1989ESSpanish writer
- Beatrice SollaITItalian romanist
- Sara A. SollaUSresearcher
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(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #2,363 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.1K | #2,363 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 615 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 607 | #14,313 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 283 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 271 | #5,847 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 110 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Solla mean, and where does it come from?
- plaice Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Solla have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Solla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solla.
- Where is Solla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Solla is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Solla?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,067 people named Solla, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Solla compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Solla is the 370th most common surname of 8,205 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/sollaThe 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, “Solla” — the 370th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.