Sol
Fewer than 120 people in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The name comes straight from Latin sol, the sun.
Sol Pronunciation
Sol is pronounced SOL (/sɔl/).
What Sol means
Where Sol comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Sol comes from Latin "sol," the word for the sun. The Romans gave that same name to their sun god, worshipped in late antiquity as Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun. The root still shows in ordinary words like solar and solstice. The short meaning is plain. Sol means sun.
In Spanish the word never went cold. "Sol" is the sun on a weather map, and it also became a given name, sometimes on its own, sometimes inside María del Sol. Among Sephardic Jews the name moved with the language after the expulsion of 1492, into Morocco and the Balkans.
One bearer is documented and hard to forget. Sol Hachuel, a Jewish girl from Tangier, was executed in Fez in 1834 at seventeen. Painters and writers across Europe kept returning to her story. Whether or not a Polish class register today lists a Sol, the name stays short and bright, three letters for the sun.
How many people are named Sol
1 in 232411 women in Poland is named Sol. 112 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3222 among female names.
Sol's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Sol as a middle name
Sol is a first name for 112 women in Poland and a middle name for another 136, a 45/55 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 560th, between Melanie (136) and Susan (136).
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#558 Kim136
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#559 Melanie136
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#560 Sol136
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#561 Susan136
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#562 Julie135