Baby Name Poll Results

Open to Solveig spelling.

Voted for svea. Out of interest (doesn't change my vote just curious as I've not heard of Svea / Solvig before) is svea pronounced s-vay or s-vay-ah or other pronunciation?

Love freja but I just feel like she'd be always correcting people automatically wanting to spell it with a J (coming from someone who always has to spell her full name (ari is so much easier))! Haha.

S-vay-ah is how you say Svea
Sole-vay is how you pronounce Solveig

I have only seen it spelled Solveig. I didn't know Solvig was an option. But Sole-vay is how I pronounce it. I was checking comments to see if Solvig was a typo, actually. Either way, it gets my vote.

I like Freja spelled as both Freja or Freya. I love Scandinavian names so was used to seeing Freja (and other names/words like Bjorn) spelled with the j's), Svea and Solveig sound nice too, I think it might be easier for people to accept the pronounciation of Solveig easier than Solvig, almost as if it was Solveigh, but they'll probably always call Solvig Sol-vigg. Freja is more well-known globally

Thank you for taking the time to reply - hope you don't mind me asking - I'm so intrigued by names I've not heard of before - especially form other countries / of other origins! Just lovely! :)

These names aren't quite that ancient lol. Vikings were actually a very social civilization only about 1300 years ago and most of these names have stuck around in Scandinavian countries still to this day. Cavemen are more like 4000+ years ago lol

Solveig would've gotten my vote! If you meant Solveig over Solvig I would probably redo the poll.

5000-10000+ years ago, before the Bronze age kicked off around 3300BC... Vikings are actually rather historically modern compared to cavemen

Krognaakk, Zugg, Borrgal

Caveman names wouldn't sound pretty, they'd lack a certain phonetical finesse of civilized languages

Frebba, Lugga, Murbs

Kluggo, Haagar, Bibbi

Personally I'd go with Freja assuming you're in the US or another English speaking country. It would be too annoying to explain Solveig for a lifetime. Some other Scandinavian suggestions:
Ebba
Ingrid
Elsa
Annika
Linnea
Lovisa

Seriously, caveman names would be stylistically lacking and void of cultural influence, otherwise they wouldn't be pre-historical cavemen and would be part of civilization. Vikings may have been barbaric in reputation but they had a very advanced society compared to 'cavemen'. There's no record of caveman names because they were before any known language, hence PRE-historic pre-civilization. Just make up some names that sound like grunts and gurgles and you're probably more accurate than anything used in the last 3000 years of recorded ancient eras

I think Svea is really pretty.