Solbjørg

given name · Latin script

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

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

Solbjørg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Old Norse Salbjǫrg, from salr (“house", "hall”) + bjǫrg (“salvation”).

rarermore common
  • NONorway≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 136K
  • SESweden1 in 2.6M

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)

≈600 people, est.

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are 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)

Old Norse Salbjǫrg, from salr (“house", "hall”) + bjǫrg (“salvation”).

Sources 2

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Solbjørg 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 Solbjørg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway≈600 est.≈1 in 9.1K3.6KSolbjørg11
DK Denmark431 in 136K43Solbjørg8
SE Sweden41 in 2.6M4—3
FO Faroe Islands——16—1
IS Iceland——1——

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); Hagstova Føroya — Given names, living population (PX-Web, 2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Solbjørg is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Sólbjørg

  • English given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway

    Also written Sólbjørg

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sólbjørg

10 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)

19401960198020002020Solbjørg Tønsaas, b. 1943Sólbjørg Jakobsen, b. 1991Solbjørk Minke Anderson, b. 2004

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)

InformalHei Solbjørg,Hi Solbjørg, (English)

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 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Solbjørg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—3.6K#767
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)195168—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)194864—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)194962—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)194658—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)195051—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)194751—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)194548—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)195245—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—43#2,860
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)195543—
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)195737—

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 Solbjørg mean, and where does it come from?
Old Norse Salbjǫrg, from salr (“house", "hall”) + bjǫrg (“salvation”). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Solbjørg?
A machine transcription gives /suːlbʃœrɡ/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
Is Solbjørg a male or female name?
Solbjørg is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Solbjørg have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 600 people named Solbjørg in Norway, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solbjørg.
How common is the name Solbjørg?
In Denmark, the national register counted 43 people named Solbjørg, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solbj%C3%B8rg

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, “Solbjørg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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