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Solange vs Soleen

American parents have registered 1,713 Solanges since 1880, against 28 Soleens. Solange is still ahead, with 33 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Solange against Soleen, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Solange 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

Of the 88 years in which either name was published, Solange for 87 years and Soleen for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Solange Soleen
Total US births 1,71328
Most in one year 13121
Babies in 2025 33under 5
Estimated living today 1,60030
Median age today 173
Peak year 20112022
Best rank 1,639th girls5,793rd girls
Rank in 2025 4,265thunranked
First recorded 19122022
Girls / boys 1,713 / 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 Solanges alive today are over 17; half the Soleens are over 3. That is 14 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 Solange Soleen
France 91,16530

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: Solange and Soleen.