Solara
Feminine · “of the sun”
Solara is built on the Latin word for the sun, and it is a modern name rather than an inherited one — the root is three thousand years old and the name is about thirty.
How old is the name Solara?
Solara first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Solara is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Solara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Solara most popular?
Solara peaked in 2011, reaching #2534 nationally. Today it ranks #3389, 855 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Solara
Ours, offered as ours. Solara is a name that behaves as if it were Latin without ever having been. The root is genuine and among the oldest recoverable words in the Indo-European family — sol has meant the sun since before Latin existed. The -ara ending is modern American. Put together they make something that could pass for a Roman woman's name and is not one, which is a common and rather successful move in current naming and worth describing accurately.
Meaningscholars disagree
of the sun
The Latin sol, the sun, is the clear source of the first two syllables and gives solar, solstice and Spanish sol. Whether Solara was formed deliberately from it or built on the -ara ending common in modern naming is not documented, and the name is not attested in Latin.
Pronouncing Solara
soh-LAH-rah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say soh-LAIR-ah.
Nicknames for Solara
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 201171 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2534reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- +9.8%45 in 2025, from 41
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.
Solara in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Sol in Spanish — related form
- Solaris in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Solaras among us
people named Solara are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 35,717 born in 2025 was named Solara
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 Alexanderia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Solara's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Alexanderia climbed just as high around 1993, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Alexanderia's path sketches the road Solara is walking now.
Solara 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
Where Solara is headed
Solara should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
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.
Solara beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Solara in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Sol and Lara are both complete names in their own right.
- The root behind it is genuinely ancient and easy to explain to a child.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- The middle vowel is unsettled between LAH and LAIR.
- The name is not attested in Latin, so it is modern despite looking classical.
- Solara, Solaria and Solana are close enough to be confused.
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Feminine · #3389 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Solaras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Solara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Solara in 2025?
- Solara ranks #3389 among US girl names in 2025, with 45 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Solara?
- About 1 in every 35,717 US girls born in 2025 was named Solara — 45 in all.
- Will my child share the name Solara with classmates?
- Solara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Solara
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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