Solly is a distinctive choice, ranked #1859 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Solly in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1859
About the Name Solly
Solly has never been more popular than it is right now, sitting at UK #1859. The name has climbed 2078 places in the last five years — a significant surge by any measure. The name has been recorded in UK data since 2004.
Solly is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Solly
Unlikely. With around 13 UK babies named Solly per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Solly in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Solly is currently rising in popularity in the UK, up 2078 places over the last five years to #1859 in 2024. If this trend continues, it will become more common in classrooms over the next decade.
Solly is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Solly include: Solly March — Solomon Benjamin March is an English professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion.; Chris Solly — Christopher James Solly is an English former professional footballer who played as a right back.; Ruby Solly — Dr Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly is a New Zealand poet, taonga pūoro practitioner, cellist, composer, music therapist and scriptwriter..
Solly does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Sollys in the wild.
13
UK babies named Solly (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↑ 2078 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Solly
Likely around 1 other Solly in the class
UK Popularity (2004–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Solly
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Christopher James Solly is an English former professional footballer who played as a right back. He is currently professional development phase coach at Charlton Athletic.
Dr Ruby Mae Hinepunui Solly is a New Zealand poet, taonga pūoro practitioner, cellist, composer, music therapist and scriptwriter. In 2023 she completed a doctoral thesis on the use of taonga puoro in mental health settings.
Henry Solly was an English social reformer. William Beveridge said of him: "He was a restless, inventive, constructive spirit, part author of at least three large living movements; charity organisation, working men's clubs, and garden cities".
Isaac Solly was a London merchant in the Baltic trade. During the Napoleonic Wars his company Isaac Solly and Sons were principal contractors supplying hemp and timber to government dockyards.
Edward Solly was an English merchant living in Berlin, who amassed an unprecedented collection of Italian Trecento and Quattrocento paintings and outstanding examples of Early Netherlandish painting, at a time when those schools were still largely unappreciated. In 1821, following negotiations by his associate Benjamin Wegner, Solly sold his collection of about 3000 works to the Prussian king; 677 of them formed a core of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Solly Afrika Mapaila is a South African politician who is the General Secretary of the South African Communist Party. He was elected unopposed on 15 July 2022 in his current position at the SACP National Congress.