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solar Name Meaning and History

  1. Spanish, Catalan, Aragonese, and Asturian-Leonese: topographic name from Latin solarius ‘ancestral home’ (a derivative of solum ‘ground’, ‘floor’), perhaps denoting someone who lived near or at the house of an important family.
  2. Galician: habitational name from any of the places named Solar (Lugo, Logroño).
  3. Jewish (from Ukraine): occupational name from Ukrainian solyar ‘salt merchant’. Compare Polish Solarz.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of solar Families in the US in 1920
Number of solar families
 15-27
 6-14
 1-5
 0
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