Soleil
org · Latin script
Meaning, in French: sun (star)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/solɛj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soleil is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 177K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 27K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 58K
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
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
3,334 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sun (star)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
How Soleil is read(measured from records)
Soleil is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- French82%
sun (star)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
French: sun
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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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soleil 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 | 3,334 | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | — | 43 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 58K | 1 | — | 5 |
| FR France | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 177K | 95 | Soleil | 194 |
| MG Madagascar | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 170 | 1 in 102K | 170 | — | 5 |
| AL Albania | 116 | 1 in 27K | 111 | — | — |
3,334 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Soleil 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 Romanian, SOLÉIL adv. (Despre obiecte plisate) În formă de raze. ◊ (Adjectival) Fustă soleil. [Pr.: soléi].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Jean-Baptiste Soleilb. 1798FRFrench engineer
- Pierre Soleilb. 1870FR(1870-1942)
- Madame Soleilb. 1913FRFrench astrologer (1913–1996)
- Soleil Divab. 1956CDmusical artist
- Stella Soleilb. 1971USAmerican singer
- Soleil Moon Fryeb. 1976USAmerican actress, director, screenwriter (born 1976)
- Elsa Soleilb. 1991BEBelgian association football player
- Soleil Sorgeb. 1994ITAmerican naturalized Italian model, television presenter, television personality, influencer, showgirl and columnist
- Gabby Soleilb. 1995USAmerican actress
- Soleil LaunièreCAperforming artist in Canada
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 51 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.3K | #5,215 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 358 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 170 | #4,011 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 111 | #2,615 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 95 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 75 | #9,402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 67 | #5,215 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 12 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12 | #60,322 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 5 | #2,615 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #914 |
| MG Madagascar | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #430 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Soleil?
- A machine transcription gives /solɛj/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Soleil mean, and where does it come from?
- sun (star) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Soleil have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Soleil, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Soleil most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Soleil is densest in Albania — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Soleil?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,334 people named Soleil in 2020, about 1 in 100 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Soleil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/soleilThe 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, “Soleil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.