Given name & surname · also Norwegian
Solas
Solas is a surname from Norwegian, ultimately from Spanish.
Original SpanishSolás
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Solas comes from Norwegian, and ultimately from Spanish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Solas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,626 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,626 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 292 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Solas’s family of names
In English usage, Solas as a surname has a related form in Solás. In English usage, Solas as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Solás. In English usage, Solas as a surname was borrowed from the Spanish form Solás.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Solas has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Spanish roots to each of them.
Spanishwhere Solas comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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