Name Solveig

Origin:

From Old Norse words for house, hall and strength

Tools:

Name info:

About the name Solveig in particular

Gender:	female
Languages of use:	German, Scandinavian
US 2021 rank:	not in the Top 1000; other popularity lists see below
Similarly written:	Sólveig, Solveigh, Solvejg, Solvig, Soleil, Sölvi Details

Group info:

About Solveig, the group of names with the same origin as Solveig

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:	Solveig, Sólveig, Solveigh, Solvejg, Solvig Sortable list Details

Popularity:

Popularity lists that contain the name Solveig