Solon

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Solon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 528th, in 1881.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 100.00% of boys
Peak year: 191633 births
Best rank: #528in 1881
Since 1880: 1,345people given the name

Babies named Solon, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

1,345 boys have been named Solon in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 33 births.

The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 33 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Solon
1880s	58
1890s	18
1900s	51
1910s	171
1920s	227
1930s	148
1940s	110
1950s	80
1960s	78
1970s	61
1980s	42
1990s	64
2000s	112
2010s	92
2020s	33

In 1916, its biggest year

Solon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1916 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1916.

Names that rose and fell with Solon

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.