Marysol
Feminine · “Sea and sun”
Marysol is Mary and Sol run together, and in Spanish it reads as a small phrase: mar y sol is sea and sun. Whether the name is that phrase or a contraction of María Soledad is genuinely disputed, and both are used.
How old is the name Marysol?
Marysol first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Marysol alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 1,500 people named Marysol are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marysol most popular?
Marysol peaked in 1970, reaching #2240 nationally. Today it ranks #5554, 3,314 places below that high. See the whole 1970 chart.
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Where it comes from
From María Soledad to Marysol
The story of Marysol
María de la Soledad is one of the Spanish Marian titles, and Spanish naming abbreviates such titles freely: Marisol, Maribel from María Isabel, Maricarmen from María del Carmen, Marilú from María Luz. Marisol became an ordinary Spanish name and was carried further by the child star Pepa Flores, who performed as Marisol from 1960 and was one of the biggest figures in Spanish cinema of the decade. American records show Marisol and Marysol with Hispanic families through the twentieth century, with Marysol peaking in 1970 — inside her run of films.
Meaningscholars disagree
Sea and sun; or Mary of solitude
Two readings compete. Marisol is widely understood as mar y sol, sea and sun, which the letters support directly. It is also given as a contraction of María de la Soledad, Mary of Solitude — a Marian title referring to her solitude after the crucifixion — which is a documented Spanish devotional name. Both are current and the Marysol spelling, with the y written as a letter rather than a word, leans toward the first.
How the name formed
- María Soledad
- Marisol
- Marysol
Related forms: Marisol · María Soledad
Pronouncing Marysol
mah-ree-SOL
Three syllables, stress on the last. The y in this spelling is said as an i, exactly as the Spanish conjunction is. English speakers often say MAIR-ee-sol, moving the weight forward.
Nicknames for Marysol
Moderate
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
- 1962
- Most girls named
- 199047 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2240reached in 1970
- Change vs 2024
- +46.7%22 in 2025, from 15
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.
Marysol in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marisol in Spanish — spelling variant
- María Soledad in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Marysols among us
people named Marysol are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was named Marysol
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marysol
- #5554
- Marysol on the 2025 chart
- #554
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marysol went to 22 girls in 2025, but Marisol is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 445, which makes it the 554th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,000 places above the chart.
- Marisol423
- Marysol22
About 1 girl in 3,612 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 73,058 for Marysol itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Roxan test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marysol's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Roxan climbed just as high around 1954, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Roxan's path sketches the road Marysol is walking now.
Marysol sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Marysol beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marysol in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both readings are pleasant and both are genuinely Spanish.
- Mari and Sol are both ready-made short forms.
- Three open syllables are easy for any speaker.
- Marisol is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- The two possible readings are quite different in register.
- English speakers put the stress in the wrong place.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marysols are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Marysol are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marysol?
- Marysol is one of 2 recorded spellings. Marisol is the more common one — 423 births in 2025 against 22 for Marysol.
- How popular is the name Marysol in 2025?
- Marysol ranks #5554 among US girl names in 2025, with 22 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marysol?
- About 1 in every 73,058 US girls born in 2025 was named Marysol — 22 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marysol with classmates?
- Marysol will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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