How common is the surname Sollars?

1,628 people in the United States had the surname Sollars in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,647 Americans. It ranked 17,356th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sollars?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sollars identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sollars getting more or less common?

More common. 1,592 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,628 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Sollars

An English occupational surname, carried by 1,628 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S462

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sollars is more common than 89.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Middle English soler (“upper floor of a house”), from Old English solor, probably an occupational surname for a servant whose duties were centered in the upper part of a house.

Sollars is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,628 people named Sollars in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 189,647 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,592.

#17,356

rank among US surnames

1,628

people in 2010

0.6

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #16,596)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#17,356	Hunte	1,628	189,647
#17,359	Tussey	1,627	189,764

Who is named Sollars

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Sollars identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Two or more races 1.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sollars

Sollars has the Soundex code S462, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S462.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sollars come from?: From Middle English soler (“upper floor of a house”), from Old English solor, probably an occupational surname for a servant whose duties were centered in the upper part of a house.
How common is the surname Sollars?: 1,628 people in the United States had the surname Sollars in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 189,647 Americans. It ranked 17,356th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sollars?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sollars identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Sollars?: Sollars is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Sollars getting more or less common?: More common. 1,592 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,628 in 2010, up 2.3%.