Solana

What Solana means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Solana yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #495 vs #2,440 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Solana?

US: Rising: up from #2646 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #4736 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 599 girls got the name (#495 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 2,683 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 23,026 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), OR (1.0 per 1,000 girls), AZ (0.92 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Solana is #495 in the US and #2440 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Solana were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Selena1,170 US · 134 E&W
• Selina176 US · 64 E&W
• Xolani209 US · 4 E&W
• Solani71 US
• Zolani40 US
• Salina35 US
• Solina19 US
• Solanna19 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Solana

Girls

• Alora#195“my dream”^*
• Lainey#30Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #576 in 2015, #30 in 2025
• Maeve#76“intoxicating”^*
• Josie#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #250 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Sage#160“sedge”^*
• Sylvie#282Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,175 in 2015, #282 in 2025

For a brother

• Ismael#263Form of Ishmael, meaning “God hears, God will hear”^*
• Emilio#154Spanish and Italian, meaning “rival”^*
• Walker#78Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #340 in 2015, #78 in 2025
• Callum#118Variant of Calum, meaning “dove”^*
• Jaziel#198Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #934 in 2015, #198 in 2025
• Baker#217From a surname for “a baker, or owner of a communal oven”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Solana’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.