Solheim
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/suːlhæɪm/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Solheim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 13,726 people, counted by SSB, which ranks it 45th. Solheim is also written Солхейм in Cyrillic.
- NONorway1 in 398(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 64K
- DKDenmark1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 398 (inferred from the name graph)
13,726 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Solheim in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Solheim
- Norwegian:/suːlhæɪm/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Solheim is found
(measured from records)Solheim 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 | #48 | 13,726 | 1 in 398 | 14K | Solheim | 111 |
| US United States | — | 918 | 1 in 362K | 918 | Solheim | 161 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Solheim | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 159 | 1 in 64K | 159 | Solheim | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 489K | 41 | Solheim | 29 |
| DK Denmark | — | 54 | 1 in 109K | 54 | Solheim | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
13,726 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Karsten Solheimb. 1911USAmerican businessman (1911–2000)
- Erik Solheimb. 1955NONorwegian politician
- Iselin Solheimb. 1990NONorwegian singer-songwriter
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Solheim?
- In Norwegian /suːlhæɪm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Solheim?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Solheim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solheim. After it come United States, Ghana, Sweden and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Solheim most common?
- Solheim is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 398 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Solheim?
- In Norway, the national register counted 13,726 people named Solheim, about 1 in 398 residents.
- How common is Solheim compared with other names?
- In Norway, Solheim is the 48th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Solheim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solheimThe 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, “Solheim” — ranked 45th in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.