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Soledad vs Soloman

American parents have registered 4,202 Soledads since 1880, against 1,679 Solomans. Soledad is still ahead, with 28 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Soledad against Soloman, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Soledad Soloman

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 134 years in which either name was published, Soledad for 119 years and Soloman for 15 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Soledad Soloman
Total US births 4,2021,679
Most in one year 8134
Babies in 2025 2817
Estimated living today 3,0001,100
Median age today 3127
Peak year 20061999
Best rank 2,328th girls2,560th boys
Rank in 2025 4,758th5,399th
First recorded 18981880
Girls / boys 4,197 / 50 / 1,679

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 Soledads alive today are over 31; half the Solomans are over 27. That is 4 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.

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