Soleil
Soleil was given to 358 girls in 2025, #758 among girls’ names; 5,172 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,130 Americans named Soleil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 5 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Soleil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Soleil?
#758 among girls’ names, 2025
Soleil rose from #1,829 in 2015 to #758 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.22 per 1,000.
370 babies in 2025, the peak
Soleil peaked in 2025, when 370 babies were given it (358 girls, #758 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 334 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 358 | #758 | 0.22 |
| 2024 | 334 | #825 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 266 | #973 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 268 | #990 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 259 | #995 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 192 | #1,199 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 208 | #1,157 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,421 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 133 | #1,634 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 137 | #1,611 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 114 | #1,829 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 153 | #1,468 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,369 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 179 | #1,320 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 190 | #1,260 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 195 | #1,239 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 192 | #1,271 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 203 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 195 | #1,266 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 154 | #1,453 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,906 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,639 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 142 | #1,409 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,491 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,828 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 90 | #1,893 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 71 | #2,149 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,719 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,491 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,438 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,955 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,948 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,646 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,968 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,670 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,552 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,609 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,636 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,326 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 29 | #3,154 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,939 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Soleil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Soleil has been given almost only to girls: 42 boys in 43 years of records.
Girls and boys named Soleil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Soleil, and how old are they?
5,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,172 Americans ever recorded as Soleil. The median Soleil alive today is 12 years old; half are between 5 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,334 people named Soleil (3,267 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,479 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 259 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,090 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,780 |
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 Soleil born?
The states with the most babies named Soleil are California, Florida and Texas, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 63 | #529 | 1.7× |
| Florida | 38 | #488 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 32 | #913 | 0.7× |
| New York | 30 | #565 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #758 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 13 | #774 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 11 | #849 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #954 | 0.2× |
| Connecticut | 9 | #348 | 0.3× |
| Oregon | 8 | #474 | 0.3× |
Where Soleil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Soleil is most over-represented in California: since 1981 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Soleil with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,265 babies since 1880, Soleil is the most given (98% of them). In 2025 it was given to 370 of their 377 babies (98%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Soleil
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Soleil and names like it
- Compare Soleil and SolielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSoleil peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Soleil since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Soleil.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Soleil alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.