Soledad is a Spanish name meaning solitude, drawn from the Marian title Nuestra Señora de la Soledad — Our Lady of Solitude — which honours Mary's quiet grief. It carries a tender, contemplative depth.
Despite its serious root, it is warm and much-loved across the Spanish-speaking world, with the affectionate nicknames Sole and Chole.
Graceful and a little poignant, Soledad is a name of quiet strength.
Soledad does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Soledad reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.