Solis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sobral, Ceará, Brasil, Lisboa, Portugal, Amsterdam, Dutch Brazil, Philadelphia
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Solis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Costa Rica it is the 23rd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 112(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 370
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 885
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)
- #458 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- 1 in 112 (inferred from the name graph)
82,146 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Solís in GT Guatemala.
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)
Sobral, Ceará, Brasil, Lisboa, Portugal, Amsterdam, Dutch Brazil, Philadelphia
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Solis 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 | #493 | 82,146 | 1 in 4K | 82K | Solis | 444 |
| PH Philippines | #89 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Solis | 109 |
| CR Costa Rica | #23 | 45,383 | 1 in 112 | 45K | Solis | 116 |
| AR Argentina | #206 | 35,262 | 1 in 1.3K | 35K | Solis | 102 |
| PE Peru | #121 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 916 | — | Solis | 107 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 28,796 | 1 in 587 | 29K | Solis | 65 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 844 | — | Solís | 63 |
| NI Nicaragua | #49 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 370 | — | Solis | 47 |
| SV El Salvador | #147 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 885 | — | Solis | 43 |
82,146 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Solis 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 Latin, genitive singular of sōl (“Sun”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, second-person singular present subjunctive of solar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, notably borne by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, soloist
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, step
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)
- Virgilius, the elder Solisb. 1514DEGerman printmaker (1514-1562)
- Hilda Solisb. 1957US25th United States Secretary of Labor
- Luis Guillermo Solísb. 1958CRCosta Rican 47th president
- Marco Antonio Solísb. 1959MXMexican musician
- Alex Solisb. 1964PAPanamanian jockey
- Gabino Diegob. 1966ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Felix Solisb. 1971USAmerican actor, film director and film producer
- Mauricio Solísb. 1972CRCosta Rican footballer
- Manuel Vidriob. 1972MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Jefferson Lermab. 1994COnot in their usual nameColombian 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 50 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 82K | #388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 80K | #392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 60K | #497 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 45K | #40 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 35K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 29K | #149 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 29K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1995 | 609 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2009 | 527 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 511 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2010 | 507 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 305 | — |
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)
- 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)
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 Solis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sobral, Ceará, Brasil, Lisboa, Portugal, Amsterdam, Dutch Brazil, Philadelphia
- In which country does Solis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 82 thousand people named Solis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solis.
- Where is Solis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Solis is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 112 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Solis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 82,146 people named Solis in 2010, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Solis compared with other names?
- In the United States, Solis is the 493rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solisThe 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, “Solis” — the 493rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.