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Freyja

#772 in 2025Girls' name

Lady

Freyja has been given to 3,858 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #772 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 473 recorded.

Babies named Freyja, 2025

1 in 9,420

Freyja over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Freyja: meaning, origin, and history

Lady

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Freyja means

Freyja means “lady”, associated with freyja.

Origin, language, and formation

Freyja is used in Icelandic.

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

Pronunciation and spelling

In Icelandic, Freyja is pronounced [ˈfreija].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,858 girls were recorded with the name Freyja between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 473 in 2023; its best national rank was #628 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #951 in 2020 to #772 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,569 in 2015 to #772 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 Freyja?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,420
352 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,570
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#772
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,529 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Freyja 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,529 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Freyja. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Freyjas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Freyja was born before 2021 — so the typical Freyja is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,858
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.5% of all recorded uses (2,336).

Is Freyja 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
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+179
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+797
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.51×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.4%
Peak was 2023 (473)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#628
2023

Spellings of Freyja

Freyja is not the most common spelling — Freda is, with 39.9% against Freyja's 3.6%.

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 Freyja is used

Across 2016–2025, Freyja was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 1,124 girls, against 1 in 4,916 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 33,333).

389 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 1,124
  2. 2Montana1 in 1,282
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 1,923
  4. 4Washington1 in 1,923
  5. 5Wisconsin1 in 1,961
  6. 6Maine1 in 2,041
  7. 7Alaska1 in 2,381
  8. 8Colorado1 in 2,632

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.

Geographically, Freyja is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 75% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Freyja around the world

Where Freyja 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
    #381
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2025
    #204
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2024
    #212
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2005–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    2011–2025
    #1,000
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #670
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1983–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Freyja in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Freyja. Linked forms have their own page here.

FrejaFreya

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Freyja by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#772
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 179
Best rank ever
#628
2023
Peak year
2023
473 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,858
Count in 2025
352

Names similar to Freyja

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

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Names with a curve like Freyja

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Freyja, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Freyja

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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