Sölvi

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sœlvɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sölvi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ISIceland1 in 864(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 103K
  • DKDenmark1 in 489K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Iceland (measured from records)

406 people, 2026

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 864 (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Solvi in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sölvi 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.

Where Sölvi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IS Iceland4061 in 864406——
SE Sweden991 in 103K99Sölvi13
DK Denmark121 in 489K12——
US United States——7Solvi6
NO Norway——260——

406 people counted by Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry), 2026. 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: Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sölvi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Solvi, Soelvi

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Solvi, Sòlvi

  • Icelandic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Iceland, United States

    Languages: Icelandic, Danish

    Also written Solvi

  • a separate given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States

    Also written Solvi, Sòlvi

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Venezuela, United States, Argentina

    Also written Solvi, Sôlvî

  • Norwegian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden

    Also written Solvi

7 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Sölvi Helgason, b. 1820Sölve Strand, b. 1921Sølve Kern, b. 1929Sølve Grotmol, b. 1939Sölve Rydell, b. 1939Sølve Skagen, b. 1945Sølve Sundsbø, b. 1970Sölvi Björn Sigurðsson, b. 1978Sölvi Ottesen, b. 1984Sølve Jokerud Strand, b. 2000

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)

InformalHi Sölvi,

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 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Sölvi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026406—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—99#8,611
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200367—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200267—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200566—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200466—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200165—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200664—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200963—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200863—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200763—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201162—

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

How do you pronounce Sölvi?
A machine transcription gives /sœlvɪ/ (IPA) for Icelandic.
Is Sölvi a male or female name?
Sölvi is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Sölvi have the most bearers?
In Iceland, the national register counted about 406 people named Sölvi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sölvi most common?
Sölvi is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 864 people carrying it.
How common is the name Sölvi?
In Iceland, the national register counted 406 people named Sölvi in 2026, about 1 in 864 residents.

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The 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, “Sölvi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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