Sola
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: feminine singular of solo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sola is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- 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 Sola 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.
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)
sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sola is read(measured from records)
Sola is one spelling over 4 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.
- Spanish54%
feminine singular of solo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sola in English.
- Catalan7.3%
sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sola in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sola 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sola is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pig. Solas, Solys (žr.), toliau žr. Salys
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In lua, to clear off a field, cut away large trees.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In Japanese, alternative form of Sora (Sora); Rōmaji transcription of そら
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, pass, mountain pass (low point between mountain peaks)
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)
- Wäinö Solab. 1883FIFinnish opera singer
- Ithiel de Sola Poolb. 1917USAmerican
- Catherine Solab. 1941FRFrench actress (1941-2014)
- Louis E. Solab. 1968USAmerican politician
- Kike Solab. 1986ESSpanish footballer
- Vera Solab. 1989CAAmerican-Canadian musician and actress (born 1989)
- Eduard Sola i Guerrerob. 1989ESSpanish TV and film screenwriter
- Alex Solab. 1999ESSpanish association football player
- Francesca De Solafilm director
- Juan Solafilm producer
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 61 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 16K | #320 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16K | #320 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 828 | #1,445 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 414 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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
- Where does the name Sola come from?
- sole (the bottom of a shoe or boot) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Sola mean?
- In Spanish, feminine singular of solo
- In which country does Sola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Sale in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sola most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sola 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 Sola?
- In Spain, the national register counted 16,413 people named Sola, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sola compared with other names?
- In Spain, Sola 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/solaThe 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, “Sola” — the 114th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.