Entry № 9879 · Icelandic origin

Soley Soley — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOH-lay /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Icelandic
Meaning
"The buttercup"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the buttercup".

Soley means the buttercup, literally sun-island — a bright golden flower of Icelandic meadows. It carries cheer and light.

It reads sunny and bright, a golden bloom.

The buttercup — a Icelandic name.

The name in its native script.

Soley
Transliteration
Soley
Pronunciation
/ ˈsou.lei /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Soley stands.

Soley 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.

Soleys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Soley.

The number behind Soley.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Soley reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.