Solâ
surname · Latin script
Solâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla).
- ESSpain1 in 3K(measured from records)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 7.1K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.8Kas Sale
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Solâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Sale, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sala in AR Argentina, PH Philippines, IT Italy and 1 more and Sola in ES Spain, SV El Salvador.
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)
- Hindiसोलाsolā“the plant Aeschynomene aspera”(measured from records)
- Bengaliশোলাśōla(measured from records)
From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla).
Sources 3
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Solâ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Sala | 37 |
| IT Italy | #115 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | 12 | Sala | 167 |
| ES Spain | #114 | 16,413 | 1 in 3K | 16K | Sola | 176 |
| PH Philippines | #834 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Sala | 55 |
| AR Argentina | #418 | 6,117as Sala | 1 in 7.4K | 6.1K | Sala | 84 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,164as Sele | 1 in 4.7K | 1.2K | — | 13 |
| SV El Salvador | #438 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Sola | 25 |
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); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Solâ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hindi सोला (solā, “the plant Aeschynomene aspera”), from Bengali শোলা (śōla). Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Solâ have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Sale in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Solâ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Solâ is densest in Spain — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Solâ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16,413 people named Solâ, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Solâ compared with other names?
- In Spain, Solâ is the 114th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sol%C3%A2The 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, “Solâ” — the 114th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.