Solveig

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Female Name

Usage

Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
Faroese
Finnish

Origin and Meaning

Modern form of Sǫlveig ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Related Names

See Sǫlveig

Name Days

Norway

1 September

Finland (Swedish Language)

3 September

Sweden

4 June

Grammar

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Solveig
Accusative:	Solveigu
Dative:	Solveigu
Genitive:	Solveigar

- Faroese
Nominative:	Solveig
Accusative:	Solveig
Dative:	Solveig
Genitive:	Solveigar

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1880 ^[2]

Namesakes

Solveig is a character in Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" (1867)

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Norway[5]		11334	18787	0	0
Sweden[6]		10297	19471	0	0
Denmark[7]		4145	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[8]		n.a.	2981	n.a	3
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[6][7][5][8]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[5]:

Sources: ^{[6] [7] [5] [8]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
3. ↑ Árni Dahl: Navnabókin (2005)
4. ↑ Hermann Pálsson: Nafnabókin (1991)
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
7. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
8. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi