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What nationality is the last name SOLAR?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hey Loc,

It is English, among others, and here is some information:
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Origin: English

Spelling variations of this family name include: Sollars, Sollas, Sollis, Sollace, Soller, Sollar, Sollas, Solles, Solers, Solars, Solis, Solas and many more.

First found in Herfordshire, where the SOLAR family was anciently seated as Lords of the Manor.

Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Migrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, the Carolinas, and to the islands.

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There is a GENFORUM for this name, and there are 220 entries in the Family Search Site - you should look, so you can see the dates and names.

Family Search does not list any English history - that surprises me. There are French, Spanish, Philippine, Mexico, and others there.