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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.