Sol

Where Sol comes from

Borrowed from Latin Sōl.
— Wiktionary's entry for Sol
  • 1 syllable
Sol through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1913
    Peak, #256
    218 babies named Sol, its best rank.
  3. 1930
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #625.
  4. 1974
    Sol Campbell born
    English footballer and manager
  5. 1985
    Sol Bamba born
    football player and manager
  6. 1995
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name
  • A diminutive of the male given name Solomon.
Namesakes
  • Sol Campbell · English footballer and manager, born 1974
  • Sol Bamba · football player and manager, 1985–2024
  • Sol LeWitt · American artist, 1928–2007
  • Sol Plaatjie · South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer; founding member and first General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress; regarded as the first Black South African to write a novel in English, 1876–1932
  • Sol Gabetta · Argentine cellist, born 1981

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.