Solheim
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/ˈsoʊɫˌhaɪm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Solheim is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 398(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 362K
- GHGhana≈1 in 55K
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 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 398 (inferred from the name graph)
13,726 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Solheim 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #48 | 13,726 | 1 in 398 | 14K | Solheim | 111 |
| US United States | — | 918 | 1 in 362K | 918 | Solheim | 161 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Solheim | 4 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Solheim | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 159 | 1 in 64K | 159 | Solheim | 22 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Solheim | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 54 | 1 in 109K | 54 | Solheim | 23 |
13,726 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wilhelm Solheimb. 1898USbotanist (1898-1978)
- Torolv Solheimb. 1907NONorwegian politician (1907–1995)
- Karsten Solheimb. 1911USAmerican businessman (1911–2000)
- Jorun Solheimb. 1944NOanthropologist
- Erik Solheimb. 1955NONorwegian politician
- Nina Solheimb. 1979NONorwegian taekwondo practitioner
- Maria Solheimb. 1982NONorwegian singer-songwriter
- Iselin Solheimb. 1990NONorwegian singer-songwriter
- Iselin Solheimb. 1995NONorwegian wrestler
- Fabian Wilkens Solheimb. 1996NONorwegian male alpine skier
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Solheim?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsoʊɫˌhaɪm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Solheim have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Solheim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled solheim.
- Where is Solheim most common?
- Solheim is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 398 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Solheim?
- In Norway, the national register counted 13,726 people named Solheim, about 1 in 398 residents.
- How common is Solheim compared with other names?
- In Norway, Solheim is the 48th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/solheimThe 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, “Solheim” — the 48th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.