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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Asturian-Leonese (Solís) : habitational name from Solís in Asturies or a similarly named place elsewhere.
  • English : from a medieval personal name bestowed on a child born after the death of a sibling, from Middle English solace ‘comfort’, ‘consolation’. The word also came to have the sense ‘delight’, ‘amusement’, and in some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname for a playful or entertaining person.

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