Solon
Solon was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,623 among boys’ names; 1,351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Solon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Solon?
#13,623 among boys’ names, 2025
Solon fell from #9,441 in 2015 to #13,623 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 4.2 to 2.9 per million.
33 babies in 1916, the peak
Solon peaked in 1916, when 33 boys were given it, #1,154 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,623 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,680 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,647 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,052 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,804 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,826 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,773 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,064 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,054 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,543 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #9,441 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,903 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,877 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,769 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,051 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,686 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,753 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,727 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,212 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 14 | #6,046 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,987 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,745 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,193 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,459 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #9,093 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,852 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,731 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,444 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,912 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,911 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #10,109 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,887 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #9,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,970 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,178 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,116 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,875 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 9 | #4,113 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,505 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,140 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,915 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,097 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,446 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #3,023 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,549 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,844 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 9 | #2,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,171 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,714 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,689 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 12 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,043 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #2,993 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,488 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,387 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,999 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,370 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,305 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,864 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,790 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,115 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,723 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,839 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,635 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 23 | #1,557 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 18 | #1,845 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,037 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,861 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,654 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,569 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,490 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,336 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,956 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,787 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,342 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,277 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,077 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 10 | #940 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,324 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,232 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,216 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,123 | 0.05 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1896 | 7 | #971 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,064 | 0.05 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,018 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,049 | 0.05 |
| 1886 | 7 | #836 | 0.06 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,082 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 10 | #651 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1881 | 12 | #528 | 0.12 |
| 1880 | 8 | #739 | 0.07 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Solon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Solon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 123 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Solon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Solon, and how old are they?
An estimated 577 Americans named Solon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (43% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 18 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 695 people named Solon (13 women and girls, 682 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 602 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,567 babies since 1880, Solon is the most given (86% of them).
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 Solon
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 Solon and names like it
- Compare Solon and SolanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sSolon peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Solon since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Solon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Solon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.