Marisol
Feminine · “From María Soledad”
Marisol is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 35,041 girls against 315 boys since 1880.
Marisol comes out of Spanish naming habit at its most inventive: two names folded into one, the way Maricarmen and Maribel were made. It has been on American records since the middle of the last century, and it has never gone away — steady among grown women, and turning up again on newborns. Four syllables that end on an open note: mah-ree-SOHL.
How old is the name Marisol?
Marisol first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Marisol alive today was born around 1996, making them about 29 years old. About 34,000 people named Marisol are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marisol most popular?
Marisol peaked in 1996, reaching #234 nationally. Today it ranks #666, 432 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
Marisol appears on these lists:
- Summer names full of light
- Spanish and Latin names with warmth
- Latin American and Caribbean names
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Works in Spanish & Latino families too:
Where it comes from
From Miryam to Marisol
The story of Marisol
Spanish has a long practice of compressing compound Marian names into single everyday ones: María Isabel becomes Maribel, María del Carmen becomes Maricarmen, and María Soledad becomes Marisol. Soledad honors Our Lady of Solitude, venerated in Spain and, especially, in Mexico, where the devotion has its own basilica in Oaxaca. Once shortened, Marisol stopped feeling like an abbreviation and became a name given on its own, which is how it reached American records — carried by Spanish-speaking families and then adopted well beyond them. The 'sea and sun' reading grew up alongside it and helped it travel.
Meaningscholars disagree
From María Soledad, 'Mary of Solitude'; also widely read as mar y sol, 'sea and sun'
The documented formation is a contraction of the compound Marian name María Soledad, after Nuestra Señora de la Soledad — Our Lady of Solitude — a devotion strong in Spain and in Mexico. Alongside that, Spanish speakers have long heard the name as mar y sol, 'sea and sun', because both words sit plainly inside it. The first is the origin; the second is a real and living reading rather than a mistake, and most families who use the name know both.
How the name formed
- Miryam
- María
- María Soledad
- Marisol
Related forms: Marisol · Marisol · Marisol · Soledad · Maribel · Marisa
Pronouncing Marisol
mah-ree-SOHL
Spanish puts the stress on the last syllable, and that is the pronunciation most bearers use. In English you will also hear MAR-ih-sohl, with the weight up front. Both are in real circulation, so it is worth deciding early which one you will correct people toward.
Nicknames for Marisol
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What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 19961,190 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #234reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- +10.7%423 in 2025, from 382
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marisol in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marisol in Spanish — same name
- Marisol in Portuguese — same name
- Marisol in Catalan — same name
- Soledad in Spanish — related form
- Maribel in Spanish — related form
- Marisa in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Marisols among us
people named Marisol are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,800 born in 2025 was named Marisol
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dorthy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marisol's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dorthy climbed just as high around 1930, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dorthy's path sketches the road Marisol is walking now.
Marisol is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Marisol is headed
Marisol looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Marisol beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marisol in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled the way it sounds in both Spanish and English — no silent letters, no competing variant spellings to keep explaining.
- Reads naturally in Spanish and in English, which matters in bilingual families and across borders.
- Two ready-made short forms that come from opposite ends of the name: Mari and Sol.
- Long unbroken presence in American records, so it is familiar to adults without being a name most children will share.
- The stress moves between languages — mah-ree-SOHL in Spanish, MAR-ih-sohl in many English mouths. Expect to hear both, sometimes from the same person twice.
- The documented root, Soledad, means 'solitude', and comes from a devotion to Mary in mourning. Nothing somber clings to the name in use, but it is worth knowing before someone tells you.
- Mari, the likeliest short form, gets heard as Mary or Maria and may need repeating.
- A child with this name will most likely be the only one in her class — pleasant for her, occasionally tiresome at roll call.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marisols are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 34,000 people named Marisol are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Marisol in 2025?
- Marisol ranks #666 among US girl names in 2025, with 423 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marisol?
- About 1 in every 3,800 US girls born in 2025 was named Marisol — 423 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marisol with classmates?
- Marisol will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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