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Soleil vs Solmayra

American parents have registered 5,172 Soleils since 1880, against 34 Solmayras. Soleil is still ahead, with 370 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Soleil against Solmayra, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Soleil 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 43 years in which either name was published, Soleil for 42 years and Solmayra for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Soleil Solmayra
Total US births 5,17234
Most in one year 37025
Babies in 2025 370under 5
Estimated living today 5,10030
Median age today 1132
Peak year 20251993
Best rank 756th girls4,100th girls
Rank in 2025 756thunranked
First recorded 19811993
Girls / boys 5,130 / 4234 / 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 Soleils are over 11. That is 21 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: Soleil and Solmayra.