Entry № 9877 · French origin

Soleil Soleil — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ so-LAY /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Sun"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "sun".

Soleil is the French word for the sun — a bright, radiant name that shines exactly as it sounds.

For a child who lights up a room, Soleil is pure sunshine.

Sun — bright French sunshine.

The name in its native script.

Soleil
Transliteration
Soleil
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈleɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Soleil stands.

Soleil 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.

Soleils before her.

Real people
Soleil Moon Frye
American actress, Punky Brewster.
born 1976
In fiction

Names connected to Soleil.

The number behind Soleil.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Soleil reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.