I've always liked this name. It's pretty but it should only be given to Latina girls. On anyone else it just seems wrong... like cultural appropriation.
― Anonymous User 4/7/2024, edited 4/7/2024
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I really like this name and it is growing on me. It is lovely, and reminds me of yellow flowers and sunny days. Much love to all Marisols, because this name is quite a treasure.
Marisol Panotes (1946 – 2022), also known as Ate Toots Panotes, was a Filipina politician who served as Congresswoman in Camarines Norte's 2nd District from 2016 until her death in 2022.
Marisol Ceh Moo (Mayan pronunciation: [maɾiˈsol kéːh moʔ]; also Sol Ceh) is a Mexican Maya writer and professor, born in Calotmul, Yucatán, Mexico. She writes in Yucatec and in Spanish, and is known for her efforts to revitalize and protect the Yucatec Maya language. Her novel, X-Teya, u puksi 'ik'al ko'olel (Teya, the Heart of a Woman 2008), is the first written by a woman in the Yukatek language.
Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996. She is of Trinidadian and Panamanian descent.
― Anonymous User 4/13/2022
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Marisol was the title of a Mexican soap opera that originally aired in 1996. It was very popular in Latin America and Hispanic communities in the U.S. The title character was portrayed by Erika Buenfil.
Hi there. My name is Marisol and I now ask new people I meet to pronounce my name as Maud-y-sol. Which is the proper pronunciation. It is really hard to explain pronunciation to people and I recognize that. The actual meaning of my name is ocean and sun. Mar is pronounced with a rolled “r” y is “and” in Spanish and sol is sun. My mother gave me another first name of Ramona to make it “easier “ on non-Hispanic professional individuals I may encounter.
The name Marisol was given to 290 girls born in the US in 2016. More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Marisol are female.
― Anonymous User 6/6/2017
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Marisol Espinoza Cruz is a Peruvian politician who has been First Vice President of Peru since 2011. She has been a Congresswoman representing Piura since 2006. Espinoza belongs to the Peruvian Nationalist Party.
Marisol is a character in the iconic 1964 Spaghetti Western film "A Fistful of Dollars", directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as "The Man With No Name". Marisol, who is the unwilling love interest of the film's antagonist Ramón, was played by the German actress Marianne Koch.
As someone mentioned above, Marisol is often a contraction or nickname for Maria de la Soledad. The Name Day for girls named after Nuestra Senora de la Soledad (Our Lady of Solitude) is Holy Saturday (the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday). The "solitude" of Mary refers to the time when her son Jesus was in the tomb, between his crucifixion and resurrection. [noted -ed]
Combination of Mar + i + Sol - means 'sea and sun' in Catalan. Not actually a combination of maria and sol - that's more likely to be a name like 'Maria-Soledad'.
It could mean sea and sun, from Maris and Sol. Not the more common derivation, but really just as legit. Anyway, I both love and hate the sound, because it's so close to 'aerosol'.
MARISOL does not mean "sea and sun." However, the phrase MAR Y SOL, which is pronounced the same way, does.
― Anonymous User 1/21/2009
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The name Marisol doesn't mean 'sea and sun' at all. It's actually the union of the pet forms for the names María and Soledad. Soledad means 'loneliness' in Spanish.
― Anonymous User 7/12/2007
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To add onto what one poster said about it being a combination of Maria and Soledad - I wouldn't worry too much about Soledad meaning loneliness because the use of Soledad as a name comes from the title Maria de Soledad, given to the Virgin Mary. I don't speak Spanish, but perhaps 'soledad', like 'solitude', isn't necessarily a bad thing, maybe it can also have the more positive sense of that brings to mind peace and quiet?All this because I love the name Marisol!