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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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The solar name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the solar family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of solar Families in the US in 1920
Number of solar families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 12 - Messages: 46
ThreadAuthorReplies
Solar (Benjamin & Bernard) Family of Cincinnati Ohio WClayton43 0
Solar-Saures BONNIE DUPREE 1
Solars from Louisiana DeborahSJones7734 6
Max SOLAR, [1894-1985], Queens, New York Jim Dowd 0
Solars from the Canary Islands LouveniaSolar 15
emma solar stacey borne 2
Earnest Solar/ Lidia unknown St Mary Parish La. barj1946 0
SOLAR Shannon Tona 1
My Solar family Solartree 0
Solar Olga Nickel 1
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