Solar
org · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Solar is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 193K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 4.4K
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,720 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Solar 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.
1,720 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lola Solarb. 1904ATAustrian politician (1904-1989)
- Augusto Carvachob. 1914CLnot in their usual nameChilean basketball player (born 1914)
- Julio Silva Solarb. 1926CLChilean politician (1926–2014)
- Ingeborg Solarb. 1926ATAustrian figure skater
- Silvia Solarb. 1940FRFrench actress (1940–2011)
- Pepe Domingo Castañob. 1942ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer, presenter and radio and television announcer
- Quique Setiénb. 1958ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player and manager
- José del Solarb. 1967PEPeruvian football player/manager
- Maja Solarb. 1980HRSerbian poet and Marxist-feminist philosopher
- Adrián Solarfilm 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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,143 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.5K | #3,113 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.5K | #3,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,548 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 570 | #15,144 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 243 | #3,404 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 231 | — |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 224 | #5,287 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 223 | #7,557 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 107 | #4,148 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- In which country does Solar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Solar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solar.
- Where is Solar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Solar is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Solar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,720 people named Solar in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Solar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solarThe 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, “Solar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.