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Solana vs Solmayra

American parents have registered 3,446 Solanas since 1880, against 34 Solmayras. Solana is still ahead, with 599 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Solana Solmayra

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

Of the 47 years in which either name was published, Solana for 46 years and Solmayra for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Solana Solmayra
Total US births 3,44634
Most in one year 59925
Babies in 2025 599under 5
Estimated living today 3,40030
Median age today 532
Peak year 20251993
Best rank 495th girls4,100th girls
Rank in 2025 495thunranked
First recorded 19761993
Girls / boys 3,446 / 034 / 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 Solmayras alive today are over 32; half the Solanas are over 5. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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