# Soleil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/soleil/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,172 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 42 / 5,130 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 108, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 190 | 1,260 |
| 2012 | 179 | 1,320 |
| 2013 | 171 | 1,369 |
| 2014 | 153 | 1,468 |
| 2015 | 114 | 1,829 |
| 2016 | 137 | 1,611 |
| 2017 | 133 | 1,634 |
| 2018 | 158 | 1,421 |
| 2019 | 208 | 1,157 |
| 2020 | 192 | 1,199 |
| 2021 | 259 | 995 |
| 2022 | 268 | 990 |
| 2023 | 266 | 973 |
| 2024 | 334 | 825 |
| 2025 | 358 | 758 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 13,858 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,765 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,809 |
| 2022 | 6 | 12,117 |
| 2024 | 9 | 8,889 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7,130 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5,556 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4,688 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,063 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2021 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,488 |
| 2023 | 9 | 2,689 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,512 |

## People named Soleil

- Soleil Moon Frye, American actress, director, screenwriter (born 1976)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.