Solvei

Girls' name

Possibly hall, house

Solvei has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2019. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Solvei, 2024

1 in 669,000

Solvei over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Solvei: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hall, house

Old Norse

What Solvei means

Solvei may mean “hall, house”, associated with salr.

Origin, language, and formation

Solvei is used in Norwegian Bokmål. Its origins include Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Solveig.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Bokmål, Solvei is pronounced /ˈsuːl.ʋæɪ̯/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 girls were recorded with the name Solvei between 2019 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2021; its best national rank was #15,020 in 2021.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Solvei?

Solvei had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Solvei sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Solvei. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Solveis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Solvei was born before 2021 — so the typical Solvei is around 4 today.

Median birth year: 2021; About 4 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 76.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 21; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 76.2% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Solvei rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2021 (6)
Years since peak: 4; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #15,020; 2021

Spellings of Solvei

Solvei is not the most common spelling — Soleil is, with 54.5% against Solvei's 0.22%.

Soleil54.5%5,130
Silver18.6%1,749
Solveig11.2%1,057
Solei9.5%899
Sole6.0%561
Solvei0.22%21

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Solvei by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #15,020; 2021
Peak year: 2021; 6 that year
First recorded: 2019
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 21
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Solvei

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Solaia Solany Soluna Solis Soline Solaire Solette Soleya Solaya Solayne Solen Soleigh Solenn Solane Solanna Soliel Solie Soleen Solena Solanie Soleiny Solida Solvej Solani

Sibling names for Solvei

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Journi Lennox Berkley Layne Ellison Legacy Marleigh Adley

For a brother

Henri Rian Finnley Axton Yaakov Grey Magnus Ameer

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