Solano
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: places, for example in the provinces of Burgos and Malaga, Dim.: Prov.: Soulanet. Soldevila Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived in the lower part of a settlement, from Cat
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Solano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Costa Rica than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 71(measured from records)
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 927
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.3K
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.
- Costa Rica (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 381 (measured from records)
- 1 in 71 (inferred from the name graph)
71,701 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
places, for example in the provinces of Burgos and Malaga, Dim.: Prov.: Soulanet. Soldevila Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived in the lower part of a settlement, from Cat. sol bottom (L solum) + de of (L de from) + Vila village, settlement (L villa country house, estate). Var.: Soldevilla.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
How Solano is read(measured from records)
Solano 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.
- Spanish78%
places, for example in the provinces of Burgos and Malaga, Dim.: Prov.: Soulanet. Soldevila Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived in the lower part of a settlement, from Cat. sol bottom (L solum) + de of (L de from) + Vila village, settlement (L villa country house, estate). Var.: Soldevilla.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
places, for example in the provinces of Burgos and Malaga, so called from OSp. solano place exposed to the sun (LL solanum, a deriv. of sol sun; cf. SoL 2).
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English10%
One of an indigenous people of southern Texas and the northern portion of the Mexican state of Coahuila.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Solano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | #6 | 71,701 | 1 in 71 | 72K | Solano | 132 |
| CO Colombia | #166 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 34 | Solano | 165 |
| PE Peru | #197 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Solano | 110 |
| US United States | — | 24,881 | 1 in 13K | 25K | Solano | 381 |
| PH Philippines | #524 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Solano | 78 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 16,062 | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Solano | 58 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #98 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 927 | — | Solano | 55 |
71,701 people counted by TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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: TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry 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)
Solano is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo de localidades chamadas Solano, do lat. solaneus/solanus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Filipino, Solano (a municipality of Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, nightshade
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)
- Chief Solanob. 1800USNative American chief
- Rodrigo Corderob. 1973CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Nolberto Solanob. 1974PEPeruvian footballer (born 1974)
- Douglas Sequeirab. 1977CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer (born 1977)
- Donita Noseb. 1979PHnot in their usual nameFilipino comedian, actor and TV host
- Daniel Cambronerob. 1986CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer
- Angel Garzab. 1992MXnot in their usual nameMexican professional wrestler
- Adrián Solanob. 1994VEVenezuelan skier
- Eloy Jiménezb. 1996DOnot in their usual nameDominican professional baseball outfielder
- Andrés Felipe Solano Dávilab. 1998COColombian association football player
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 57 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 72K | #15 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,430 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,438 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #1,958 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 16K | #271 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 129 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 34 | #82 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Solano mean, and where does it come from?
- places, for example in the provinces of Burgos and Malaga, Dim.: Prov.: Soulanet. Soldevila Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived in the lower part of a settlement, from Cat. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- In which country does Solano have the most bearers?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted about 72 thousand people named Solano, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solano.
- Where is Solano most common?
- Solano is densest in Costa Rica, where the national register counts about 1 in 71 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Solano?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 71,701 people named Solano, about 1 in 71 residents.
- How common is Solano compared with other names?
- In Costa Rica, Solano is the 6th most common surname of 8,899 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solanoThe 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, “Solano” — the 6th most common surname in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.