About the Soles Surname

Soles is best understood alongside Solis: both are Spanish spellings of one family name. The family name meaning is “Sunny place”, the same as for Solis.

Arms associated with the name

Arms linked to Solis and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Spelling and variants

The two spellings differ in a small detail: Soles has “e” where Solis has “i”.

In the Spanish register, Soles appears 326 times as a first surname and 341 times as a second one. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Soles with 4,006 bearers, at rank 8,274. For the full story, order the Soles surname pack.