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Solana vs Soleen

American parents have registered 3,446 Solanas since 1880, against 28 Soleens. Solana is still ahead, with 599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Solana against Soleen, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Solana Soleen

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Solana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1976 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Solana had 226 and Soleen had 21.

Side by side

  Solana Soleen
Total US births 3,44628
Most in one year 59921
Babies in 2025 599under 5
Estimated living today 3,40030
Median age today 53
Peak year 20252022
Best rank 495th girls5,793rd girls
Rank in 2025 495thunranked
First recorded 19762022
Girls / boys 3,446 / 028 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Solanas alive today are over 5; half the Soleens are over 3. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Solana Soleen
France 21530

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Solana and Soleen.