Solo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A piece of music for one performer
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səʊləʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Solo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country, where it is the 59th most common surname.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 7.1K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 24K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
solo (a piece of music for one performer)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Solo is read(measured from records)
Solo is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
A piece of music for one performer.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
river, Indonesia; former name of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Surakarta; Han, hero of Star Wars
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish19%
sole; one; only; single (unique)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.4%
solo (a piece of music for one performer)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Solo in Arabic.
- Swahili5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Solo in Swahili.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Solo, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Solo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #59 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Solo | 9 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Solo | 82 |
| MA Morocco | #478 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Solo | 19 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Solo | 37 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Solo | 11 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Solo | 26 |
| US United States | — | 838 | 1 in 397K | 1.1K | Solo | 211 |
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. 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)
Solo 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 men, getting, obtaining, possessing, reception, marriage
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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)
- Charles Solob. 1868BEBelgian novelist and playwright
- Robert H. Solob. 1932USAmerican film producer
- François Solob. 1933FRFrench caricaturist (1933-2008)
- Pam Solob. 1946USAmerican activist
- Diane Solob. 1960CIIvorian singer
- Pavlína Moskalyková Solob. 1960CZCzech director and scriptwriter
- Sal Solob. 1961GBsinger
- Hope Solob. 1981USAmerican soccer player
- Ksenia Solob. 1987LVLatvian-Canadian actress
- Ed Solob. 2000GBBritish musician
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 48 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 267 | #26,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 78 | #26,834 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 9 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Solo mean?
- In English, A piece of music for one performer.
- Where does the name Solo come from?
- solo (a piece of music for one performer) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Solo?
- A machine transcription gives /səʊləʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Solo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Solo in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solo.
- How common is the name Solo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 838 people named Solo in 2010, about 1 in 397 thousand residents.
- How common is Solo compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Solo is the 59th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Solo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soloThe 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, “Solo” — the 59th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.