Soledad

Girls’ name Recorded 1898-2025

Soledad was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,864 among girls’ names; 4,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1898 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 3,030 Americans named Soledad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 49.

Babies named Soledad each year, first recorded in 1898

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Soledad or Katheryne Names of the 2000s Names in California

Births of Soledad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Soledad mean?

Wiktionary, Spanish section

Soledad is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “solitude” (soledad).

From soledad (“solitude”), shortened from María (de la) Soledad, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as “Our Lady of Solitude”, with a feast day on Good Friday.

/soleˈdad/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Soledad (Spanish), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Soledad?

#4,864 among girls’ names, 2025

Soledad fell from #4,839 in 2015 to #4,864 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 16.2 to 17.4 per million.

81 babies in 2006, the peak

Soledad peaked in 2006, when 81 girls were given it, #2,347 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 35% of that peak.

Soledad by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per million girls
2025	28	#4,864	17.4
2024	33	#4,370	20.4
2023	26	#5,106	16.2
2022	26	#5,152	15.9
2021	33	#4,311	20.1
2020	24	#5,290	14.8
2019	25	#5,291	14.9
2018	33	#4,340	19.4
2017	16	#7,393	9.3
2016	27	#5,113	15.2

Every recorded year (126)

Year	Births	Rank	Per million girls
2015	29	#4,839	16.2
2014	34	#4,343	19.0
2013	39	#3,906	22.2
2012	41	#3,843	23.3
2011	38	#3,993	21.6
2010	44	#3,614	24.8
2009	64	#2,797	34.8
2008	70	#2,659	37.0
2007	70	#2,640	36.4
2006	81	#2,347	42.6
2005	73	#2,429	39.5
2004	71	#2,419	38.7
2003	73	#2,316	40.0
2002	69	#2,346	38.4
2001	72	#2,251	40.0
2000	59	#2,564	32.5
1999	53	#2,669	29.9
1998	53	#2,609	30.0
1997	66	#2,131	37.9
1996	72	#1,975	41.1
1995	63	#2,144	35.8
1994	65	#2,118	36.4
1993	63	#2,143	34.8
1992	60	#2,230	32.5
1991	77	#1,848	41.1
1990	55	#2,309	29.0
1989	44	#2,604	23.9
1988	31	#3,213	17.4
1987	38	#2,646	21.9
1986	34	#2,838	19.8
1985	37	#2,647	21.5
1984	35	#2,666	20.8
1983	39	#2,423	23.3
1982	47	#2,179	27.8
1981	35	#2,651	21.0
1980	43	#2,303	25.9
1979	38	#2,466	23.7
1978	40	#2,299	26.1
1977	46	#2,088	30.0
1976	42	#2,094	28.7
1975	40	#2,161	27.4
1974	37	#2,207	25.2
1973	28	#2,622	19.2
1972	20	#3,261	13.1
1971	38	#2,167	22.8
1970	21	#3,191	12.0
1969	31	#2,346	18.4
1968	21	#2,859	12.8
1967	18	#3,058	10.9
1966	22	#2,651	13.0
1965	16	#3,245	9.1
1964	21	#2,810	11.1
1963	25	#2,480	13.0
1962	24	#2,526	12.2
1961	27	#2,349	13.4
1960	18	#2,975	8.9
1959	17	#2,968	8.4
1958	30	#2,062	14.9
1957	20	#2,635	9.8
1956	27	#2,142	13.4
1955	29	#2,016	14.8
1954	22	#2,368	11.3
1953	19	#2,504	10.1
1952	24	#2,115	12.9
1951	15	#2,795	8.3
1950	31	#1,709	18.1
1949	22	#2,123	12.9
1948	18	#2,406	10.6
1947	18	#2,438	10.2
1946	13	#2,866	8.3
1945	13	#2,580	9.9
1944	19	#2,017	14.3
1943	17	#2,237	12.2
1942	11	#2,965	8.1
1941	11	#2,824	9.1
1940	15	#2,192	13.1
1939	16	#2,115	14.6
1938	17	#2,013	15.4
1937	17	#1,988	16.0
1936	15	#2,139	14.4
1935	18	#1,906	17.2
1934	25	#1,514	23.9
1933	22	#1,653	21.8
1932	21	#1,742	19.7
1931	38	#1,173	35.7
1930	43	#1,141	38.2
1929	54	#992	48.4
1928	56	#1,008	48.6
1927	51	#1,078	42.8
1926	46	#1,131	38.8
1925	53	#1,048	43.5
1924	56	#1,044	44.8
1923	48	#1,109	39.8
1922	49	#1,101	40.8
1921	37	#1,293	30.0
1920	44	#1,150	36.7
1919	52	#1,006	46.0
1918	33	#1,356	28.5
1917	31	#1,330	28.7
1916	29	#1,376	27.8
1915	29	#1,335	29.5
1914	16	#1,727	21.0
1913	17	#1,460	27.2
1912	16	#1,412	28.7
1911	5	#2,813	12.0
1910	6	#2,367	15.1
1909	6	#2,189	17.3
1908	6	#2,069	17.9
1907	7	#1,793	22.0
1904	6	#1,839	21.8
1903	9	#1,298	34.4
1902	5	#2,008	18.9
1901	9	#1,213	37.6
1900	5	#2,191	16.7
1899	7	#1,378	30.0
1898	5	#1,936	19.3

Download Soledad’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Soledad a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Soledad has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 126 years of records.

Girls and boys named Soledad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Soledad, and how old are they?

3,030 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 72% of the 4,202 Americans ever recorded as Soledad. The median Soledad alive today is 32 years old; half are between 20 and 49.

The 2020 Census counted 10,465 people named Soledad (10,390 women and girls, 75 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,018 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.

Alive today, by age

100-1093

90-9935

80-8968

70-79166

60-69188

50-59275

40-49378

30-39 (median)555

20-29662

10-19452

0-9243

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	94
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	328
Generation X	1965-1980	468
Millennials	1981-1996	779
Generation Z	1997-2012	986
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	371

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).

Where are babies named Soledad born?

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
State	Births 2025	Rank, girls	vs. national
Texas	11	#2,023	3.5×
California	9	#2,258	3.2×

Where Soledad is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Soledad is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Texas3.49×

California3.20×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Soledad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Soledad

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1890-2025
Katheryne	2,117
Clarisse	1,701
Anise	1,242
Candelaria	2,558
Celestina	2,566
Agustina	1,676

Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

More about Soledad and names like it

Compare Soledad and KatheryneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 2000sSoledad peaked in 2006.
California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Soledad since 1910.
Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Soledad: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Soledad.
The names of Generation ZMost people named Soledad alive today were born 1997-2012.
Names starting with SMost given first.

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