Sóley
given name · Latin script
Meaning: any of various plants in the genus Ranunculus, the buttercups
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/souːlei/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sóley is a given name 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
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Soley in US United States, ES Spain, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)
any of various plants in the genus Ranunculus, the buttercups
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sóley 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sóley Elíasdóttirb. 1967ISIcelandic actor
- Sóley Tómasdóttirb. 1974ISIcelandic politician
- Sóleyb. 1987ISIcelandic musician
- Gugusarb. 2004ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic singer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 785 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 726 | #59 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 456 | #84 |
| FO Faroe Islands | Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024) | — | 43 | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Newborn first/sole given names (2021) | 2021 | 25 | #4 |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Sóley?
- A machine transcription gives /souːlei/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
- What does the name Sóley mean, and where does it come from?
- any of various plants in the genus Ranunculus, the buttercups Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sóley a male or female name?
- Sóley 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.
- How common is the name Sóley?
- In the United States, the national register counted 652 people named Sóley in 2010, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
- How common is Sóley compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Sóley is the 589th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
- In which country does Sóley have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 652 people named Sóley, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soley.
What do you want to know about Sóley?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B3leyThe 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, “Sóley” — the 589th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.