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Solvej

Girls' name

Norwegian equivalent of Solveig

Solvej has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2020. 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 2020, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Solvej, 2023

1 in 663,000

Solvej over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Solvej: meaning, origin, and history

Norwegian equivalent of Solveig

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Solvej means

Solvej is a Norwegian equivalent of Solveig.

Origin, language, and formation

Solvej is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Solveig.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Solvej between 2020 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2020; its best national rank was #14,876 in 2020.

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 Solvej?

Solvej had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Solvej 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Solvej. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Solvejs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Solvej was born before 2020 — so the typical Solvej is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Solvej 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 2020 (6)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#14,876
2020

Spellings of Solvej

Solvej is not the most common spelling — Silver is, with 40.9% against Solvej's 0.26%.

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.

Solvej 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
#14,876
2020
Peak year
2020
6 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Solvej

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

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Sibling names for Solvej

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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