Solomon
Last seen for girls in 1988 at #11,798 · #422 for boys in 2025, 767 births
Given to boys >99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1880 · 62 births
- Debut · boys
- 62 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 38,069since 1880
Solomon over time
Rank among boys' names. Solomon has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #422 | 767 | |
| 2024 | — | #416 | 771 | |
| 2023 | — | #437 | 711 | |
| 2022 | — | #438 | 710 | |
| 2021 | — | #417 | 737 | |
| 2020 | — | #402 | 750 | |
| 2019 | — | #408 | 757 | |
| 2018 | — | #387 | 825 | |
| 2017 | — | #376 | 883 | |
| 2016 | — | #367 | 907 | |
| 2015 | — | #369 | 873 | |
| 2014 | — | #379 | 832 | |
| 2013 | — | #419 | 709 | |
| 2012 | — | #435 | 637 | |
| 2011 | — | #445 | 609 | |
| 2010 | — | #464 | 566 | |
| 2009 | — | #455 | 600 | |
| 2008 | — | #422 | 691 | |
| 2007 | — | #451 | 615 | |
| 2006 | — | #473 | 563 | |
| 2005 | — | #468 | 535 | |
| 2004 | — | #475 | 530 | |
| 2003 | — | #494 | 496 | |
| 2002 | — | #460 | 527 | |
| 2001 | — | #434 | 558 | |
| 2000 | — | #462 | 516 | |
| 1999 | — | #442 | 521 | |
| 1998 | — | #499 | 431 | |
| 1997 | — | #501 | 415 | |
| 1996 | — | #533 | 363 | |
| 1995 | — | #567 | 324 | |
| 1994 | — | #594 | 302 | |
| 1993 | — | #607 | 292 | |
| 1992 | — | #643 | 257 | |
| 1991 | — | #629 | 260 | |
| 1990 | — | #686 | 218 | |
| 1989 | — | #602 | 265 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #576 | 255 |
| 1987 | — | #602 | 227 | |
| 1986 | — | #595 | 223 | |
| 1985 | — | #565 | 243 | |
| 1984 | — | #529 | 263 | |
| 1983 | — | #567 | 221 | |
| 1982 | — | #496 | 295 | |
| 1981 | — | #603 | 200 | |
| 1980 | — | #589 | 214 | |
| 1979 | — | #554 | 240 | |
| 1978 | — | #569 | 217 | |
| 1977 | — | #562 | 222 | |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 | #588 | 193 |
| 1975 | — | #618 | 173 | |
| 1974 | — | #612 | 172 | |
| 1973 | — | #629 | 158 | |
| 1972 | — | #666 | 145 | |
| 1971 | — | #622 | 177 | |
| 1970 | — | #695 | 142 | |
| 1969 | — | #661 | 142 | |
| 1968 | — | #669 | 125 | |
| 1967 | — | #696 | 114 | |
| 1966 | — | #686 | 116 | |
| 1965 | — | #635 | 140 | |
| 1964 | — | #669 | 132 | |
| 1963 | — | #704 | 121 | |
| 1962 | — | #708 | 118 | |
| 1961 | — | #651 | 145 | |
| 1960 | — | #695 | 128 | |
| 1959 | — | #594 | 173 | |
| 1958 | — | #664 | 133 | |
| 1957 | — | #601 | 163 | |
| 1956 | — | #596 | 163 | |
| 1955 | — | #567 | 170 | |
| 1954 | — | #573 | 166 | |
| 1953 | — | #605 | 144 | |
| 1952 | — | #565 | 154 | |
| 1951 | — | #510 | 178 | |
| 1950 | — | #575 | 139 | |
| 1949 | — | #472 | 194 | |
| 1948 | — | #488 | 185 | |
| 1947 | — | #520 | 170 | |
| 1946 | — | #547 | 136 | |
| 1945 | — | #552 | 118 | |
| 1944 | — | #543 | 126 | |
| 1943 | — | #500 | 154 | |
| 1942 | — | #503 | 148 | |
| 1941 | — | #550 | 118 | |
| 1940 | — | #471 | 150 | |
| 1939 | — | #533 | 116 | |
| 1938 | — | #484 | 143 | |
| 1937 | — | #485 | 138 | |
| 1936 | — | #455 | 153 | |
| 1935 | — | #498 | 131 | |
| 1934 | — | #460 | 149 | |
| 1933 | — | #461 | 145 | |
| 1932 | — | #438 | 165 | |
| 1931 | — | #454 | 154 | |
| 1930 | — | #425 | 193 | |
| 1929 | — | #411 | 204 | |
| 1928 | — | #406 | 218 | |
| 1927 | — | #416 | 209 | |
| 1926 | — | #409 | 214 | |
| 1925 | — | #342 | 290 | |
| 1924 | — | #364 | 271 | |
| 1923 | — | #328 | 314 | |
| 1922 | — | #312 | 334 | |
| 1921 | — | #303 | 356 | |
| 1920 | — | #302 | 356 | |
| 1919 | — | #287 | 353 | |
| 1918 | — | #278 | 367 | |
| 1917 | — | #263 | 376 | |
| 1916 | — | #290 | 317 | |
| 1915 | — | #280 | 312 | |
| 1914 | — | #248 | 297 | |
| 1913 | — | #260 | 215 | |
| 1912 | — | #225 | 233 | |
| 1911 | — | #221 | 129 | |
| 1910 | — | #275 | 81 | |
| 1909 | — | #249 | 79 | |
| 1908 | — | #274 | 61 | |
| 1907 | — | #260 | 65 | |
| 1906 | — | #293 | 48 | |
| 1905 | — | #290 | 47 | |
| 1904 | — | #270 | 50 | |
| 1903 | — | #282 | 44 | |
| 1902 | — | #221 | 66 | |
| 1901 | — | #284 | 37 | |
| 1900 | — | #239 | 72 | |
| 1899 | — | #286 | 37 | |
| 1898 | — | #288 | 40 | |
| 1897 | — | #263 | 44 | |
| 1896 | — | #277 | 44 | |
| 1895 | — | #251 | 51 | |
| 1894 | — | #308 | 32 | |
| 1893 | — | #264 | 44 | |
| 1892 | — | #274 | 43 | |
| 1891 | — | #265 | 37 | |
| 1890 | — | #259 | 43 | |
| 1889 | — | #263 | 40 | |
| 1888 | — | #273 | 43 | |
| 1887 | — | #289 | 33 | |
| 1886 | — | #254 | 45 | |
| 1885 | — | #209 | 58 | |
| 1884 | — | #215 | 60 | |
| 1883 | — | #237 | 45 | |
| 1882 | — | #231 | 51 | |
| 1881 | — | #219 | 49 | |
| 1880 | — | #196 | 62 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Solomon was already there! It came in at #196, and was given to 62 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1886–1894, when fewer than 46 boys a year got the name.
Where Solomon is popular in 1900
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Solomon
- 6 spots since 2024 (#416 → #422)
- 20 spots since 2020 (#402 → #422)
- 53 spots since 2015 (#369 → #422)
- Biggest jump: 107 spots in 1982 (#603 → #496)
- Biggest drop: 103 spots in 1950 (#472 → #575)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1880 at #196 (62 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 146 yrs · run 1880–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,752 boys born in 1911 were named Solomon (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,227 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #196 in 1880, was only 1 in 1,782 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.0% of all boys named Solomon (7,598) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 486 | #196 (1880) | #239 |
| 1890s | 415 | #251 (1895) | #274 |
| 1900s | 569 | #221 (1902) | #266 |
| 1910s | 2,680 | #221 (1911) | #263 |
| 1920s | 2,766 | #302 (1920) | #359 |
| 1930s | 1,487 | #425 (1930) | #469 |
| 1940s | 1,499 | #471 (1940) | #515 |
| 1950s | 1,583 | #510 (1951) | #585 |
| 1960s | 1,281 | #635 (1965) | #677 |
| 1970s | 1,839 | #554 (1979) | #612 |
| 1980s | 2,406 | #496 (1982) | #572 |
| 1990s | 3,383 | #442 (1999) | #570 |
| 2000s | 5,631 | #422 (2008) | #459 |
| 2010s | 7,598 | #367 (2016) | #405 |
| 2020s | 4,446 | #402 (2020) | #422 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Solomon in 1900
Top boys' names in 1900
More about 1900
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150,474 boys got a published name in 1900; 1 in 2,090 of them was named Solomon, which outranked 84.1% of the 1,506 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).