Söl
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Söl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo’s hexachordal scales”), the first syllable of Latin solve (“to remove; to get rid of”), the first word of the fifth line, third verse.
- ESSpain1 in 50K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 66K
- ARArgentina1 in 98K
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
- 31 (measured from records)
- 1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
1,044 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo’s hexachordal scales”), the first syllable of Latin solve (“to remove; to get rid of”), the first word of the fifth line, third verse (“Solve polluti, labii reatum”, that is, “Clean the guilt from our stained lips”) of the famed medieval hymn Ut queant laxis, which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.
Sources 6
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Söl 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 | 1,044 | 1 in 319K | 4K | — | 23 |
| ES Spain | 999 | 1 in 50K | 2.2K | — | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 462 | 1 in 98K | 669 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 178 | 1 in 66K | 178 | — | 3 |
| IN India | 71 | 1 in 19M | 71 | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | — | 1 |
1,044 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Söl is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, 1 juice in meat, lymph 2 soup, bouillon
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In xgn-pro, grass having preserved its green colour
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Swedish, slowness (in doing something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, gentleman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, dulse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In trk-pro, juice
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Söl mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo’s hexachordal scales”), the first syllable of Latin solve (“to remove; to get rid of”), the first word of the fifth line, third verse… Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Söl have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Söl, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Söl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Söl is densest in Spain — about 1 in 50 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Söl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,044 people named Söl in 2010, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B6lThe 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, “Söl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.