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Name Group Solveig

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Group info:
Language of origin:Old Norse
Info about origin:known from Solveig, the heroine in the drama Peer Gynt from Henrik Ibsen (1876)
 a speaker of a Scandinavian language probably today takes the name to mean sol väg (way of the sun)
Words:salr = the house, the hall  Old Norse
 veig = the strength  Old Norse
 sol = the sun  Scandinavian
 väg = the way, the lane  Scandinavian
Topics:Two-element name
Variants' top ranks:19:Solveig Norway 2015,  27:Sólveig Iceland 2015
Name variants:

All variants, grouped by language of use

LanguageFemale VariantsMale Variants
GermanSolveig, Solveigh 
ScandinavianSolveig, Solveigh, Solvejg, Solvig 
IcelandicSólveig 
Name variants:

5 female name variants, sorted by name and gender

NameLanguages of Use
SolveigGerman, Scandinavian
SólveigIcelandic
SolveighGerman, Scandinavian
SolvejgScandinavian
SolvigScandinavian