Sölve
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/s9lve/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sölve is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 14K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 235K
- FIFinland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
751 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Solve in NO Norway.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sölve är ett nordiskt namn, vanligtvis tolkat som motsvarighet till ett fornnordiskt binamn, Sǫlvi ’den gulbleke’. Även en sammansättning av Sal- ’sal, hus’ och en bildning till ett verb motsvarande gotiskans weihan ’kämpa’ har föreslagits. Det är dock i bi namnet kanske snarast fråga om det sammansatta ordet ’salspräst’, bildat av ord för ’kulthus, helgedom’ och ’(hednisk) präst’ (jfr → Tore), en så kallad meningsfull samman sättning (se Terminologi).
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sölve counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
751 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sölve Cederstrandb. 1900SESwedish journalist og film director (1900–1954)
- Artur Svenssonb. 1901SEnot in their usual nameSwedish sprinter (1901–1984)
- Sölve Strandb. 1921SESwedish composer
- Sølve Kernb. 1929NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian film director and film editor (1929-1977)
- Sølve Grotmolb. 1939NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian television presenter (1939-2010)
- Sölve Rydellb. 1939SESwedish writer
- Sølve Skagenb. 1945NOnot in their usual namefilm director
- Sølve Sessengb. 1956NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian researcher
- Sølve Sundsbøb. 1970NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian photographer
- Sølve Jokerud Strandb. 2000NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian ski jumper
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 751 | #2,079 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 499 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 493 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 483 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 475 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 469 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 458 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 454 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 444 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 433 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 427 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 415 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Sölve?
- In the etymology graph, Sølve is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sölve?
- A machine transcription gives /s9lve/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Sölve a male or female name?
- Sölve is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sölve have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 751 people named Sölve, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sölve.
- Where is Sölve most common?
- Sölve is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sölve?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 751 people named Sölve, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sölve?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B6lveThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sölve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.