Soledad
Feminine · “solitude”
Soledad is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 4,197 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Soledad is solitude, and it is a Marian title before it is a word on a certificate: Maria de la Soledad, Our Lady of Solitude, is Mary alone between the burial and the resurrection. Spanish families have given the name for centuries, and it carries a particular kind of dignity that its English translation does not manage.
How old is the name Soledad?
Soledad first appears in US birth records in 1898 — 127 years ago. The typical Soledad alive today was born around 1982, making them about 43 years old. About 3,100 people named Soledad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Soledad most popular?
Soledad peaked in 1929, reaching #981 nationally. Today it ranks #4758, 3,777 places below that high. See the whole 1929 chart.
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Where it comes from
From solitas to Soledad
The story of Soledad
Spanish devotion has always made room for sorrow, and several of its most-used women's names come from titles about grief: Dolores, Angustias, Soledad. The Soledad devotion was formalized in Madrid in the sixteenth century and spread through Spain and across the Atlantic with the religious orders. It became ordinary in Mexico, Spain, Argentina and the Philippines, and it came into American records with families from all of them. In Spain and Argentina the short form Sole is used so widely that many bearers are rarely called anything else.
Meaning
solitude
Spanish soledad, solitude or loneliness, from Latin solus, alone. The name is short for Maria de la Soledad, a devotional title of the Virgin honoring her grief and her waiting after the crucifixion.
How the name formed
- solitas
- soledad
- Soledad
Related forms: Soledade · Soledat · Solitudine
Pronouncing Soledad
soh-leh-DAHD
Three syllables, stress at the end, the final d soft to the point of vanishing in much Spanish speech. English speakers say SOH-luh-dad, which Spanish-speaking families generally let pass.
Nicknames for Soledad
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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
- 1898
- Most girls named
- 200573 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #981reached in 1929
- Change vs 2022
- +7.7%28 in 2025, from 26
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.
Soledad in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Soledade in Portuguese — same name
- Soledat in Catalan — same name
- Solitudine in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Soledads among us
people named Soledad are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 57,402 born in 2025 was named Soledad
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 Maebell test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Soledad's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maebell climbed just as high around 1912, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maebell's path sketches the road Soledad is walking now.
Soledad 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 Soledad is headed
Soledad 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.
Soledad beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Soledad in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a single word carrying real weight, without being grim.
- Sole and Chole are warm, established short forms with long histories of their own.
- It is recognized across Spain, Latin America and the Philippines at once.
- Its meaning is solitude, which some families find beautiful and others find heavy to hand a child.
- English speakers know it as a California place name and a prison, which colors the first hearing.
- The stress at the end is regularly flattened in American speech.
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Feminine · #4758 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Soledads are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Soledad are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Soledad in 2025?
- Soledad ranks #4758 among US girl names in 2025, with 28 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Soledad?
- About 1 in every 57,402 US girls born in 2025 was named Soledad — 28 in all.
- Will my child share the name Soledad with classmates?
- Soledad will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Soledad
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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