Solano Family History

Spanish and Aragonese: habitational name from any of the places called Solano (Burgos and Málaga provinces) or El Solano (Huesca, Aragon) named with solano ‘place exposed to the sun’ (from Late Latin solanum a derivative of sōl ‘sun’).

Spanish and Portuguese: from a personal name adopted in honor of Saint Francisco Solano, a 17th-century missionary to South America.

Italian (southern): habitational name from either of two places in Calabria: Solano Inferiore or Solano Superiore.