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Freja

#3,928 in 2025Girls' name

Lady, through Freyja

Freja has been given to 556 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #3,928 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Freja, 2025

1 in 89,600

Freja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Freja: meaning, origin, and history

Lady, through Freyja

Old Norse and Icelandic

What Freja means

Freja belongs to the name family reached through Freja → Freyja. Its meaning is “lady”.

Origin, language, and formation

Freja is used in Danish and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse and Icelandic.

Freja comes through Old Norse Freyja and Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Freyja.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 556 girls were recorded with the name Freja between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,247 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,799 in 2020 to #3,928 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,898 in 2015 to #3,928 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Freja?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,928
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Freja sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Freja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Frejas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Freja was born before 2017 — so the typical Freja is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
556
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (247).

Is Freja rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−681
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+871
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+970
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.5%
Peak was 2024 (49)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,247
2024

Spellings of Freja

Freja is not the most common spelling — Freda is, with 13.8% against Freja's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Freja is used

Across 1910–2025, Freja was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 566,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Minnesota1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Freja has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Freja around the world

Where Freja ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2000–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2010–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2024
    #7,261
    in 2024
  • Norway
    2024–2025
    #273
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Freja by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,928
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 871
Best rank ever
#3,247
2024
Peak year
2024
49 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
556
Count in 2025
37

Names similar to Freja

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Freja

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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