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Solveig

#6,790 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly hall, house

Solveig has been given to 1,057 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #6,790 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Solveig, 2025

1 in 195,000

Solveig over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Solveig: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly hall, house

Old Norse

What Solveig means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Solveig is used in Danish, Faroese, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Solveig comes through Norwegian Solveig.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sólveig.

Pronunciation and spelling

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,057 girls were recorded with the name Solveig between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,860 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,824 in 2020 to #6,790 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,210 in 2015 to #6,790 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Solveig?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,790
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Solveig 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 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Solveig. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Solveigs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Solveig was born before 1984 — so the typical Solveig is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
656
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Solveig 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
−1,204
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−966
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−580
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.5%
Peak was 2021 (33)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,860
1916

Spellings of Solveig

Solveig is not the most common spelling — Soleil is, with 72.4% against Solveig's 14.9%.

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.

Where Solveig is used

Across 1910–2025, Solveig was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 147,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Solveig has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Solveig around the world

Where Solveig ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1950–2025
    #1,210
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #27
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Solveig by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,790
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 966
Best rank ever
#1,860
1916
Peak year
2021
33 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,057
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Solveig

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

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Sibling names for Solveig

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

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