Soles
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of sol
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sowɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Heard & McDonald Islands it is the 23rd most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 83K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 117K
- IEIreland≈1 in 11K
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
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
4,006 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of sol
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Soles 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 | — | 4,006 | 1 in 83K | 4K | Soles | 280 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Soles | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 589 | 1 in 359K | 589 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 119K | 82 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 105 | Soles | 50 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Soles | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Soles | 80 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Soles | 2 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #23 | — | — | — | Soles | 1 |
4,006 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Soles is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, second-person singular present subjunctive of solar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sōl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite genitive plural of sol
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, genitive singular of sol
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine plural of solu
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)
- Paul Solesb. 1930CACanadian actor
- Robert Charles Soles Jr.b. 1934USAmerican politician (1934-2021)
- Jeffrey Solesb. 1942USAmerican archaeologist
- P. J. Solesb. 1950USAmerican actress
- Michael Solesb. 1966CACanadian football league player (1966-2021)
- Caro SolesCACanadian writer
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,274 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #7,976 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,544 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 589 | #14,670 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 105 | #32,154 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 85 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Soles mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of sol Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Soles?
- A machine transcription gives /sowɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Soles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Soles, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled soles.
- How common is the name Soles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,006 people named Soles in 2010, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Soles compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Soles is the 23rd most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solesThe 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, “Soles” — the 23rd most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.