Sørlie
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/søːrlɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sørlie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
- DKDenmark≈1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sørlie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,572 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Soerlie 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sørlie 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 | 4,572 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.6K | Sørlie | 21 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 5 | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 90M | — | Soerlie | 7 |
| DK Denmark | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Sørlie | 9 |
4,572 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)- Mikjel Sørlieb. 1892NOfeatured in the Norwegian Who's Who 1973
- Reidar Sørlieb. 1909NONorwegian discus thrower (1909–1969)
- Kirsten Sørlieb. 1926NONorwegian actor (1926–2013)
- Stian Sørlieb. 1928NONorwegian essayist
- Helge O. Sørlieb. 1939NONorwegian association football player
- Hans Ola Sørlieb. 1953NOactor (1953-1988)
- Jørgen Sørlieb. 1956NONorwegian footballer
- Robert Sørlieb. 1958NONorwegian dog musher
- Nina Sørlieb. 1964NONorwegian art historian
- Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekkb. 1978NONorwegian handball player
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4.6K | #177 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #46,270 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #291,379 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #397,497 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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 Sørlie?
- A machine transcription gives /søːrlɪə/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Sørlie have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Sørlie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sørlie.
- Where is Sørlie most common?
- Sørlie is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sørlie?
- In Norway, the national register counted 4,572 people named Sørlie, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sørlie?
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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%B8rlieThe 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, “Sørlie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.