Sørli
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/søːrlɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sørli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse Sǫrli.
- NONorway1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.7M
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,914 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
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)
From Old Norse Sǫrli.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sørli 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.
2,914 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
- Arne Sørlib. 1904NONorwegian musician and composer
- Odd Sørlib. 1912NONorwegian resistance fighter during World War II
- Ole A. Sørlib. 1944NONorwegian musician (1944–2009)
- Odd Sørlib. 1954NONorwegian alpine skier
- Dagfinn Sørlib. 1958NONorwegian diplomat (born 1958)
- Ole Hermann Sørlib. 1960NONorwegian sportsperson
- Vanja Lundgren Sørlib. 1971NOcriminologist
- Kristian Sørlib. 1976NONorwegian footballer
- Sondre Sørlib. 1995NONorwegian association football player
- Ivar Johan Sørlimusher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 2.9K | #300 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #48,998 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #77,589 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #210,317 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sørli mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse Sǫrli. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Sørli?
- A machine transcription gives /søːrlɪ/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Sørli have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Sørli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sørli.
- Where is Sørli most common?
- Sørli is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sørli?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,914 people named Sørli, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
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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%B8rliThe 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, “Sørli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.