Fun Facts About the Name Solimar
- 479 babies named Solimar: U.S. records list 479 babies given the name Solimar from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Solimar Mean?
Solimar is a compound name made from the Spanish and Portuguese words sol ("sun") and mar ("sea"). Its literal sense is therefore "sun and sea," and that is also the customary reading - the name is not attached to a religious title or a symbolic story that changes the meaning of the two halves. Both words descend from Latin: sōl, "sun," and mare, "sea," which have kept nearly the same form in Spanish and Portuguese. Because the parts remain everyday vocabulary in both languages, the name is transparent to speakers of either one.
Solimar Name History & Origins
Solimar belongs to a well-established pattern in Iberian naming: two ordinary nouns, often drawn from nature, are joined into a single personal name. In Spanish and Portuguese, words such as sun, sea, light, and flower appear in many such combinations, and Solimar is built the same way, with the two elements run together as one word. Its development is essentially the development of those two common words rather than the drift of an older personal name from one language into another.
The name is used in Portuguese-speaking Brazil and in Spanish-speaking parts of the Americas. The same pairing of words also appears in coastal place names in the Americas, which fits the way Spanish and Portuguese speakers link the two nouns naturally. Because the compound is made of ordinary language rather than an inherited saint's name or a Germanic root, there is no long chain of intermediate spellings to follow; the name's history is mainly the history of the words sol and mar and of the naming habit that put them together.
How Popular is the Name Solimar?
Solimar has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2007. Its best rank was #6,182 in 2014.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #8,288 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2024 | #6,869 | 17 | 0.0011% |
| 2023 | #8,420 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2022 | #7,248 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #7,582 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2020 | #10,165 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2019 | #10,385 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2018 | #8,547 | 13 | 0.0008% |
| 2017 | #6,772 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2016 | #9,351 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2015 | #18,764 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #6,182 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #9,536 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2012 | #13,320 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2011 | #11,092 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2010 | #7,842 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2009 | #8,411 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2008 | #10,705 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2007 | #6,518 | 21 | 0.0011% |
| 2006 | #6,800 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2005 | #6,784 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2004 | #7,348 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2003 | #6,546 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2002 | #7,772 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2001 | #9,280 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2000 | #7,524 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1999 | #7,656 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #7,056 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1997 | #10,692 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1996 | #11,646 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #8,667 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1994 | #10,413 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #9,433 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1992 | #13,145 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1991 | #11,349 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1990 | #12,744 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1987 | #8,660 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 1983 | #10,093 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #12,056 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1981 | #10,225 | 6 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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