Gender: Feminine
Origin: Welsh
Meaning: “sunshine.”
(HILE-wen) Hile rhymes with Isle.
The name comes directly from the Welsh heul meaning sun and gwen meaning “holy; bright; fair; white.”
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Sóllilja
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Icelandic
Meaning: “sun lily.”
(SOLE-lil-yah).
The name is composed of the Icelandic words Sól meaning sun and lilja meaning “lily.” The name appears on the approved names of Iceland.
Areknaz
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Armenian
Meaning: “pleasant sun”
(ah-rek-NAHZ)
Náttsól
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Icelandic
Meaning: “midnight sun.”
(NAWT-sool)
The name is composed of the elements natt meaning “night” and sol meaning “sun.”
The Midnight Sun is a phenomenon that occurs in the Artic Circle during the Summer months.
The name is currently very rare in Iceland, in fact, as of July 2007, no one bore this as a first name, but there were 3 women who had it as a middle name.
Afshideh
Gender: FeminineSonnhild
Gender: Feminine
Origin: German
Meaning: “sun battle.”
(ZOHN-heelt)
The name is very rare in German speaking countries, but is a name with ancient Germanic roots, comprised of the elements sonne meaning sun and hild meaning battle.
Another form includes Sonnhilde (ZOHN-heel-deh). Other ancient Germanic names with the sonne element include Sonngard meaning “sun spear,” (ZOHN-gart); and Sonntraud meaning “sun truth.” (ZOHN-trout).
Solveig
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Old Norse
Meaning: speculated, but most populary believed to mean “sun way; path to the sun.”
Nor (sol-VIGH;VYE); Swe (sol-VAY).
The name is of Old Norse origins, composed of the elements, sol, meaning,” sun” and veig “way”or “path.” The word veig can also mean “strength,” leading some to believe that the name might actually mean “sun strength.”
Some also believe that the name is composed of the elements solr meaning “yellow coloured” or salr meaning “house, home or hall” and that the second element of the name is either from the word, vig, meaning, “battle” or the word, vigja, meaning, “to hollow”.
Though the name is technically used throughout Scandinavia, it has been most popular in Norway, no doubt due to the symbolic character of Solveig in Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt.
In the play, Ibsen uses Solveig as a symbol of redemption for the protaganist, Peer Gynt. There is a lot of play on words used throughout the play, and since Solveig represent’s Gynt’s path to redemption and salvation, the meaning of her name as “path to the sun,” is a key factor to the plot of the story.
A popular Norwegian nickname for this is Vivi.
Solveig is currently the 76th most popular female name in Norway (2007).
- Solvej/Solvey (Danish)
- Solveigh (German)
- Solveig (Icelandic)
- Solveiga (Latvian/Russian)
- Sølvi (Norwegian)
- Solvig (Swedish: obscure form)
- Sylvi (Swedish/Norwegian/Finnish)
Other forms include: The name also appears in Icelandic as Sólveig, Sólveigu and Sólveigar.
Amshula
Gender: Feminine
Hayarpi
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Armenian
Meaning: “Armenian sun.”
(high-YAR-pee)
The name is composed of the Armenian elements, hay meaning “Armenain” and arpi meaning “sun.”
Arpineh
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Armenian
Meaning: “sun”
(ar-PEE-neh)
The name is composed of the element arpi meaning sun and the feminine suffix –ineh.
Variations include Arpi, Arpen, Arpeni, Arpenig, Arpig and Arpo.
(Upperleft, ancient temple dedicated to the Sun, in Armenia)