🔥Soleil

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French

"sun"

Soleil Origin and Meaning

The name Soleil is a girl's name of French origin meaning "sun".

An attractive French word name known here via former child TV star Soleil Moon Frye, aka Punky Brewster. It started to be lightly used in the U.S. in the 1920s and is now attracting some attention as both a sunny nature and an international word name. It's currently in the Nameberry Top 500.

Soleil Rank in US Top 1000

# 824 in the US

Soleil Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 234 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Soleil

• 824 US 2024
• 234 Nameberry 2025
• 207 Unique 2020

20 Names Similar to Soleil

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Soleil.

• Aster
• Clio
• Lumi
• Avalon
• Zora
• Delphi
• Vesper
• Acacia
• Gaia
• Fae
• Xanthe
• Zinnia
• Eris
• Saffron
• Amity
• Seren
• Vega
• Circe
• Arcadia
• Reverie

Famous People Named Soleil

• Soleil Moon Frye American actress
• Sky Soleil American male voice actor
• Cypress Soleil Lee (b. 1995) daughter of rapper Solé
• Sophia Madrien Soleil Bell (b. 2001) daughter of singer Tara McLean
• Bodhi Soleil Reed Somerhalder (b. 2017) daughter of actors Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed

The name Soleil in Pop Culture

• Cirque du Soleil famous Canadian circus
• Soleil character on the American TV show "Touch"
• Soleil daughter of Laslow (Lazward) in the game "Fire Emblem: Fates"