Solé

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Solé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: first-person singular preterite indicative of solar.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 14K
  • ARArgentina1 in 32K

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)

11,457 people

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sole in ES Spain, AR Argentina, IT Italy 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)

first-person singular preterite indicative of solar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Solé 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.

Where Solé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#37811,4571 in 4.4K11KSole147
IT Italy—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 14K1KSole99
US United States—1,5111 in 220K1.6KSole111
AR Argentina—1,4361 in 32K1.4KSole54
FR France—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 61K201Solé81
UY Uruguay—4241 in 8K424Sole23
NO Norway—1321 in 41K132Sole2

11,457 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Solé is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sole, Soele, Sole', Solè, Söle

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Solë, Sole, Solè, Šole, Sóle

  • Indonesian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sole, Sólé, Sõlé

  • Lao surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Spain, United States, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Sole, Solay, โซเล่ย์, Solea, โซเลย

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Sole

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Spain, United States, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Sole, Соле, Şöle, Solè, Söle

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Sole, Sóle

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Solé 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 Italian, third-person singular past historic of solere

    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)

1850190019502000Rafael Bardem, b. 1889Pedro Solé, b. 1905Jordi Solé Tura, b. 1930Joan Massagué Solé, b. 1953Albert Solé i Bruset, b. 1962Jo Sol, b. 1968Bernat Solé i Barril, b. 1975Sebastian Solé, b. 1991Ferrán Solé, b. 1992Bad Gyal, b. 1997

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 10 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Solé mean, and where does it come from?
first-person singular preterite indicative of solar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Solé have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Solé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sole.
Where is Solé most common?
Solé is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Solé?
In Spain, the national register counted 11,457 people named Solé, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
How common is Solé compared with other names?
In Spain, Solé is the 378th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Solé” — the 378th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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