The name Marisol is a contracted form of ‘Maria de la Soledad’, a title of Virgin Mary. It translates to ‘Our Lady of Solitude’ and is a special form of Marian devotion in Spanish-speaking countries.
Marisol is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Marisol isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Marisol ranks 812. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Marisol. In the entire USA, approximately 31,873 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Marisol. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Marisol is a contracted form of ‘Maria de la Soledad’, a title of Virgin Mary. It translates to ‘Our Lady of Solitude’ and is a special form of Marian devotion in Spanish-speaking countries.
Marisol sounds like... mar y sol', Spanish for 'sea and sun', but this is not the actual meaning of this name.
Marisol is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Marisol - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 227 in 1996. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Marisol really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Marisol was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
339 babies were named Marisol in 2022 - that's 1 in 437,262 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Marisol ranked 748 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Marisol, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 38 states are home to women and girls named Marisol. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Marisol living in one state or another. If your name is Marisol and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New Mexico, which has the most people named Marisol relative to the population, you still have to ask 1,445 women and girls their names before you hear Marisol as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Marisol has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Marisol and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Marisol, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Orange
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Marisol
Marisol
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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R
I
S
O
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
R
I
S
O
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Marisol sounds like this:
