Spanish, Aragonese, Asturian-Leonese: habitational name from
any of the places named Solano (Burgos and Málaga provinces) or El
Solano (Asturies, and Uesca, Aragon), named with solano ‘place
exposed to the sun’ (Late Latin solanum, a derivative of
sol ‘sun’).
Spanish and Portuguese: from a
personal name adopted in honor of Francisco Solano, a 17th-century
missionary to South America.
Italian: possibly also from the
personal name adopted in honor of Francisco Solano.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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