Solveig
Solveig was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,790 among girls’ names; 1,057 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Solveig by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Solveig mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Solveig is “a female given name”
Borrowed from Norwegian Solveig.
/ˈsǔːlvɛj/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Solveig?
#6,790 among girls’ names, 2025
Solveig fell from #6,210 in 2015 to #6,790 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 10.6 per million.
33 babies in 2021, the peak
Solveig peaked in 2021, when 33 girls were given it, #4,312 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,790 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,586 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,360 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,456 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,312 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,824 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,433 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,066 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,503 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,960 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (93)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,210 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,413 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,973 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,643 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,297 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,869 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,578 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,652 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,945 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,100 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,271 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,489 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,935 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,768 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,126 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,259 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,567 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,493 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,794 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,426 | 4.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,408 | 4.5 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,990 | 6.0 |
| 1990 | 8 | #10,054 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,244 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,243 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #8,051 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,932 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,690 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,226 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,081 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,177 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,998 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,464 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,420 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #8,025 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,960 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,722 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,383 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,930 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,230 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,816 | 4.6 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,494 | 3.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,333 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,894 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,871 | 3.0 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,570 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,420 | 6.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,979 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 7 | #4,012 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,629 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #4,078 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,649 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,949 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,388 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,324 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,754 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,077 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,551 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,076 | 15.3 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,371 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,022 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,188 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,671 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,566 | 11.6 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,607 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,680 | 10.9 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,335 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,985 | 6.6 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,625 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,612 | 7.5 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,620 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,393 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,874 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,622 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,192 | 14.7 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,533 | 12.0 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,860 | 18.2 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,509 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,244 | 14.4 |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,870 | 19.2 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,603 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,430 | 14.3 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,509 | 14.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Solveig a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Solveig has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 93 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Solveig: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Solveig, and how old are they?
An estimated 700 Americans named Solveig and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (66% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 8 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 910 people named Solveig (908 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Solveig born?
The states with the most babies named Solveig are Minnesota, New York and North Dakota, with 96% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and North Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 101 | not ranked | 4.7× |
| New York | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Dakota | 5 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Solveig is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Solveig is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 4.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Solveig with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Solveig
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1900-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Genevie | 2,003 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Solveig and names like it
- Compare Solveig and GenevieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSolveig peaked in 2021.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Solveig since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Solveig: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Solveig.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Solveig alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.