Entry № 9844 · English origin

Solstice Solstice — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOL-stis /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The turning of the sun"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "the turning of the sun".

Solstice names the suns great turning points — the longest and shortest days — from the Latin for the sun standing still.

Elemental and evocative, it is a rare, poetic name of light and season.

The turning of the sun — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Solstice
Transliteration
Solstice
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɒl.stis /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Solstice stands.

Solstice 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.

Solstices before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Solstice.

The number behind Solstice.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Solstice reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.