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Solange vs Soliana

American parents have registered 1,713 Solanges since 1880, against 719 Solianas. But in 2025 it was Soliana that was commoner, 62 babies to 33.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Solange Soliana

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 78 years and Soliana for 10 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Solange Soliana
Total US births 1,713719
Most in one year 13162
Babies in 2025 3362
Estimated living today 1,600720
Median age today 178
Peak year 20112025
Best rank 1,639th girls2,751st girls
Rank in 2025 4,265th2,751st
First recorded 19122001
Girls / boys 1,713 / 0719 / 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 Solianas are over 8. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Solange Soliana
France 91,16535
Switzerland 9063
England and Wales 34114

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 Soliana.