Sølvi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Old Norse
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SSB, 2025
/søːlʋɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sølvi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 111K
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
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.
- Norway (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)a female given name from Old Norse
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sølvi 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 11K | Sølvi | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 53 | 1 in 111K | 42 | Sølvi | 17 |
| SE Sweden | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 43M | — | Sølvi | 5 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 234M | — | Sølvi | 5 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sølvi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kl, silver
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sølvi Wangb. 1929NONorwegian singer (1929–2011)
- Sølvi Sognerb. 1932NONorwegian professor (1932-2017)
- Sølvi dos Santosb. 1943NONorwegian photographer
- Sølvi Ytterstadb. 1945NONorwegian poet
- Sølvi Edvardsenb. 1951NONorwegian choreographer
- Sølvi Lillejordb. 1952NONorwegian scientist
- Sølvi Gunn Jensenb. 1955NONorwegian politician
- Sølvi Olsen Meinsethb. 1967NONorwegian female sprinter
- Sølvi Vatnhamarb. 1986FOFaroese footballer
- Sølvi YstadFRresearcher
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 11K | #392 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1958 | 149 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1956 | 145 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1960 | 142 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1957 | 133 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1959 | 132 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1962 | 131 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1961 | 130 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1963 | 125 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1954 | 121 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1967 | 117 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 1955 | 113 | — |
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 does the name Sølvi mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Sølvi?
- In the etymology graph, Solveig, Sylvi and Solveiga are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sølvi?
- A machine transcription gives /søːlʋɪ/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- Is Sølvi a male or female name?
- Sølvi is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Sølvi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Sølvi in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sølvi.
- How common is the name Sølvi?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 53 people named Sølvi, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sølvi?
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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%B8lviThe 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, “Sølvi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.