Solomon
The boy's name Solomon has been in the national records since 1880, with 38,080 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 422nd. About 28,000 Solomons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 38,080
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 367th
- Rank in 2025
- 422nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 11 / 38,069
How old the living Solomons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 38,080 babies given the name since 1880, about 28,000 are alive — 73 in every hundred. Roughly 13,000 of them are children and 2,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek, from Hebrew
From Latin Solomōn (variant of Salomon), from Ancient Greek Σολομών, from Biblical Hebrew שְׁלֹמֹה, from שָׁלוֹם (“peace”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Solomons
- Solomon ibn Gabirol (1020–1058)11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher
- Solomon Burke (1940–2010)American singer
- Solomon Asch (1907–1996)Polish-American psychologist
- Solomon (1053–1087)King of Hungary
- Solomon Northup (1808–1864)free-born African American kidnapped by slave-traders
- Solomon Lefschetz (1884–1972)Jewish American mathematician
- Solomon Kvirkvelia (born 1992)Georgian association football player
- Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948)Soviet actor, Yiddish theatre performer
People named Solomon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Solomon is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Solomon is most concentrated in Hawaii (5.6×), South Carolina (2.5×), New York (2.3×), Georgia (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Solomon peaked:
Solomon elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Solomon | 3,683 | 295th |
| France boys | Solomon | 245 | 1,827th |
| Norway boys | Solomon | 167 | 368th |
| Scotland boys | Solomon | 116 | 350th |
| Ireland boys | Solomon | 110 | 268th |
| Poland boys | Solomon | 24 birth registrations | 415th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Solomon | 20 | 339th |
| Belgium boys | Solomon | 10 | 1,395th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Solomon by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 9 | 398th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Solomon among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Solomon | 39 | 83 |
| Finland girls | Solomon | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Solomon against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.